Posted on 12/18/2021 5:17:15 AM PST by T Ruth
I followed up this morning on my post looking at the current New York Times story on the investigation of Project Veritas with PV attorney Paul Calli. I asked Mr. Calli for the questions submitted by the New York Times to PV and the response given to the Times, both of which were omitted from the story. Mr. Calli has provided the following as O’Keefe’s unquoted response to the questions submitted by the Times (the Times reporter addressed is Michael Schmidt).
Mike,Mr. O’Keefe responds to your email on your deadline, as follows. Please include Mr. O’Keefe’s response in its entirety and do not selectively edit it:
The New York Times accuses Project Veritas of “decepti[on]” and more, but the New York Supreme Court ruled otherwise, stating that “the dictionary definitions of ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive’…certainly apply to [the New York Times’] failure to note that they injected their opinions in news articles [about Project Veritas]” and rejected the Times’ attempt to dismiss Project Veritas’ defamation lawsuit.
-James O’Keefe
In addition, Mr. Calli provided this statement in response to my request for a comment on the story:
The New York Times asked half-baked questions in its role as corporate stenographer and press secretary for the FBI and [the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York]. [continued at site]
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No prominent journalists like O’Keef should live in New York.
I don’t think anyone really wants to curtail the First Amendment. Censorship is bad. But we really need to do something about the propaganda machines.
Lately I’ve been wondering about the money aspect. You can print anything you like. But if you have a large audience (hey, maybe CNN has a loophole here ...) then you should undergo forensic accounting of a painful nature. Any money coming from the CIA? From China? From the DNC? Why would any multi-billion dollar corporation push communism and an “eat the rich” philosophy? I say we follow the money and let everyone know why the Left pushes a crazy ideology so hard.
The problem is that this isn’t freedom of speech. The problem is big media’s efforts to become an organ of the CCP and suppress dissenting views to support the accepted party line.
“The problem is that this isn’t freedom of speech. The problem is big media’s efforts to become an organ of the CCP and suppress dissenting views to support the accepted party line.”
The problem is also the aggregation of the “press” into mega communications corporations. All markets thrive when there are many competitors, including the market for ideas. Today the news media is controlled by a few large communications corporations (Disney/ABC; Comcast/NBC, ATT/Time Warner/CNN, Viacom/CBS, and Fox). Some subsidiaries of these mega conglomerates are heavily regulated by big government so they collude with the bureaucracy and the politicians expanding the size and scope of government.
No press independent from government control would tolerate the behavior of the Biden administration toward the press. Without protest they accept interviews with Biden that are obviously prescripted, with him obviously reading answers on a teleprompter. Face to face interviews are the same and the White House communications people supervise the editing.
Years ago it was revealed every day editors of major media outlets get on a telephone call with Democrat party operatives to orchestrate the daily news stories and how they will be spun. Rush Limbaugh delighted in playing montages of reporters and commentators from the major networks in one or two liners spouting the same talking points, on the story of the day, in almost exactly the same words.
One solution is to break up the media conglomerates. Force Comcast to sell NBC then force NBC to sell off CNBC, Peacock, and MSNBC. The same with Disney, Fox, Time Warner, etc. Break them up into multiple companies. When there are 50 broadcast news outlets vigorously competing for the eyeballs and ears of the American people you will necessarily have different messaging. Some will be ultra left wing, some center of the road, some libertarian, some hard right. Hopefully some will deliver hard news with the facts laid out objectively and opinion reserved for opinion shows.
The same goes for newspapers and television stations. Once they were locally owned so towns and cities had competing TV stations and newspapers. Break up the syndicates owning hundreds of newspapers and let local entrepreneurs own them. The same with radio and TV stations. Break up the chains and have thousands of independent stations competing for eyeballs and ear drums.
The other problem is academia and the erosion of standards. Professors at journalism schools teach social justice and propaganda. Young graduates come to their jobs with no ethical mooring and ready to play loose with words and facts to manipulate the audience. Hence the absence of investigative journalism and skepticism with the Russia hoax, climate change, and Covid. Instead the press spins hysteria, colluding with the bureaucracy, far left academics, and large multinational corporations.
The best way to deal with academia is for state legislators to begin exercising oversight over taxpayer funded state universities. Eliminate tenure in publicly funded schools. Terminate professors and administrators who are simply revolutionaries and propagandists. Restore standards to admissions and output.
1. “Press credentials” … There’s no reason for this silliness. Any government event where “press credentials” are handed out should be open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Some @sshole doesn’t get to sit in on a White House briefing just because he works for CNN or the New York Times.
2. The media should have no legal protections that aren’t given to every citizen of the U.S. That means they should be compelled to disclose sources, should be subject to the same level of liability exposure as anyone else when publishing false information, etc.
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O’Keefe and PV should sue the NYSlimes.
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“I say we follow the money and let everyone know why the Left pushes a crazy ideology so hard.”
The answer is obvious. Governments, corporations, academia and the very wealthy are pushing for Communism because they will be in charge and not subject to the harsh realities of life under communism.
To wit, look no further than the White House, Congress and the D.C. establishment. They are excluded from the very laws they enact.
Obamacare: The D.C. establishment were allowed to keep their Cadillac healthcare plans while the rest of us were forced into the healthcare exchanges
Insider Trading: if you are I are caught and convicted of insider trading like Martha Stewart, we will go to prison, and yet Congress and their staffs are exempt from this law. How else do you think those fuckers retire as multi millionaires on a salary if $170k / year?
COVID Vax:. Again Congress and the White House have exempted themselves, their staffs and the D.C. establishment from needing to be vaxed.
There are countless other examples, but just those three alone should be example enough.
I take it you left the /s tag off your comment.
What makes the situation all the more disturbing is that PV is suing the nyt, and it appears that the nyt is using the FBI to spy on and harass PV.
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