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Kari Lake, and the danger of local news anchors jumping into politics
Columbia Journalism Review ^ | 08/02/2022 | John Allsop

Posted on 08/04/2022 2:35:00 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

LAST YEAR, Kari Lake, a news anchor at Fox 10, a local TV station in Phoenix, announced in a video posted to social media that, following a period of leave, she had made the difficult decision to quit journalism. “Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom, and I’ll be honest—I don’t like the direction it’s going,” Lake said. “I found myself reading news copy that I didn’t believe was fully truthful, or only told part of the story, and I began to fear that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; bias; columbia; garbage; getmeoutofhere; johnallsop; karrintaylorrobson; media; stopthepain; transsupporter
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An interesting read... The whining writer is very upset that most of the examples he can find are of local news people leaving the industry to run for office as REPUBLICANS!

Not once does this pretend journalist think the criticism of former reporters have merit. Instead, Allsop seems to think he is the one who is qualified to pass judgement on people like Kari Lake.

1 posted on 08/04/2022 2:35:00 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

As of 5 AM it looks like she’s beyond the margin of fraud, too.


2 posted on 08/04/2022 2:49:23 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The Democrats have CHEATING DOWN TO A SCIENCE!!


3 posted on 08/04/2022 3:00:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
“I found myself reading news copy that I didn’t believe was fully truthful, or only told part of the story,

Mockingbirds don't want news of fake news coming out.

4 posted on 08/04/2022 3:08:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

My take, not a good look on FOX. Looks like how CNN/MSNBC models itself.


5 posted on 08/04/2022 3:13:06 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Recovering_Democrat

OMG!!!! She had an account on....gasp!....Parler. Why that’s....that’s......(scare quotes) “Far right”.

Notice how nothing is ever “far Left”....y’know....like Twitter?

They then describe openly saying the 2020 election was stolen as an “extreme” position. How much ya wanna bet they didn’t think claiming 2016 was because of Russian collusion to be “extreme”?

Notice they try to draw a distinction between “respected media figure” and “Trumpian media basher”. Whereas I’d say nobody who fails to bash the corrupt corporate media is in the least way respected. They can’t be. They’re obviously dishonest if they don’t since its so obviously just Democrat propaganda.

Notice how they put scare quotes around one candidate and former member of the media noting that the media has “an agenda”. uhh yeah???? Is there anybody to the right of Karl Marx who doubts that???

He then goes on to claim “Journalists” possess the quality of.....get this......”fair mindedness”. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

He then claims Kari Lake is “dangerous” as an “election denier”. I’d say he’s “dangerous” as an election fraud denier.

and its “concerning” that Kari Lake is a “media basher”....ie that she is telling the truth about the far left agenda of the corporate media.

He hilariously then talks about the “high levels of trust” for people in the corporate media. Obviously nobody told this dimwit that Americans trust the corporate media less than the people of any other country in the world trust their national media. Yes, Americans distrust the American corporate media even less than Russians trust their media. Its that bad. The overt bias and the constant lies of the corporate media are that obvious.

The bubble these people live in is truly amazing.


6 posted on 08/04/2022 3:14:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

Yep. Spot on analysis. People don’t trust network or local news because of the bias.


7 posted on 08/04/2022 3:22:24 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

The Big CHeat is in to deny Kari Lake her victory against the RINOs. The Dem laft is THAT afrasid of Kerry Lake. And when these little woke Marxists are THAT afraid of any Republican, you know she would be good Republicanfor THE PEOPLE>

When Kari Lake pulled ahead of the RINO, the vote count came to a dead stop so that votes for her opponent could be FOUND.

These dirty rulling class ba$tards have no shame. They have done the same to Kari Lake as they did to Trump. Soon this crap will erupt in violence if its not stopped.


8 posted on 08/04/2022 3:31:13 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: FLT-bird

Yes, the “journalists” and their fellow travelers constantly write stories about the “lies”, “fraudulent claims”, “baseless assertions” that the 2020 election was stolen. Even if you totally discount the proven illegal activities, the corrupt FBI bureaucrats, by refusing to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop and “falsely” claiming it was Russian disinformation a month before the election, clearly threw the election to Biden when disclosure would have destroyed his chances. This is certainly evidence of a “stolen” election.


9 posted on 08/04/2022 3:45:33 AM PDT by laconic
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To: FLT-bird

Well said.


10 posted on 08/04/2022 3:46:46 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

John Allsop invites verbal incivility upon himself.


11 posted on 08/04/2022 4:01:11 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

“... danger of local news anchors jumping into politics...”

But it’s perfectly fine when leftist politicians jump into “journalism”, example: George Stephanopoulos, Nicole Wallace, Joe Scarborough, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/


12 posted on 08/04/2022 4:13:05 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
As of 5 AM it looks like she’s beyond the margin of fraud, too.

NOTHING is beyond the margin of fraud as far as Democrats are concerned.

13 posted on 08/04/2022 4:29:06 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Yep. Spot on analysis. People don’t trust network or local news because of the bias.

Partner, we are looking at journalism as being dead. It is dead already since we know of a lot of people that do not see any local news and national news.

14 posted on 08/04/2022 4:29:15 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Hysterical !

They just can’t stand it that Kari Lake won on Tuesday and will win in Nov.

Boo Hoo !


15 posted on 08/04/2022 4:40:42 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Super, Duper, Ultra Maga, subject of the Ultra Maga King Donald)
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To: Baldwin77

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Is that a POSITIVE at this point - please Hod make it so.


16 posted on 08/04/2022 4:44:15 AM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATISTS)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Who knows better what’s going on than a reporter who has been watching the machinations of the left for years.


17 posted on 08/04/2022 5:01:57 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: FLT-bird

Thanks for the short recap

Appreciated


18 posted on 08/04/2022 5:04:48 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: FLT-bird

Allsop reports from England for the CJR. Apparently no relation of Joe and Steward Allsop, deceased American reporters, he would do well to study their work in order to eliminate his too obvious biases.


19 posted on 08/04/2022 5:15:51 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Just the usual lefty hypocrisy. Any resemblance to journalism is purely incidental.


20 posted on 08/04/2022 5:22:55 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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