Posted on 10/06/2022 5:12:27 PM PDT by MNDude
Konnech officials assured the New York Times that "none of the accusations were true." Thompson reported that employees "feared for their safety" from right-wing violence and that "Konnech's founder and chief executive, Eugene Yu, an American citizen who immigrated from China in 1986, went into hiding with his family after receiving threatening messages."
Any reasonable reader would come away with the conclusion that Konnech, an innocent company that makes products to deal with "basic election logistics, such as scheduling poll workers," has been the target of crazy, and possibly dangerous, conspiracy theories. To press the point, the New York Times used the phrase "conspiracy theory" or "conspiracy theorists" nine times in the article, once in the headline — "How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target" — seven times in the body of the story, and once in a photo caption. Got it?
Fast forward one day. Twenty-four hours. The New York Times published another story about Konnech, this one headlined, "Election Software Executive Arrested on Suspicion of Theft." Thompson reported that Yu had been "arrested by Los Angeles County officials in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers."
But in the Konnech story, the New York Times just jumped to the defense of the good guys against the bad guys. Why? The Washington Examiner's Tim Carney tweeted, "It's the same reason everything about Hunter Biden's laptop was considered disinformation right away, deserving of a media blackout." In other words, The New York Times assumed — a simple, unexamined, emotion-based assumption — who the good guys were and who the bad guys were in the story. And in this case, it appears, the paper got it wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Media is not naive like this article asserts.
MSM uses the term conspiracy theory on issues they want little attention drawn to, like election fraud or Hunters computer.
I am a conspiracy realist.
So, when is she changing her party affiliation (and buying Kevlar)?
That’s right. It’s not approved speech so it must be buried.
At some point, a conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy observation. Seems to be happening a lot of late.
Conspiracy theories are now just spoiler alerts. 🤔
“Noah was a conspiracy theorist … until it started raining.”
That is a particularly good one!
I like that!
I stand by the greatest conspiracy of all time: all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord.
I stand by the greatest conspiracy of all time: all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord.
The Examiner needs to step up the editing a notch. It is gobbledygook. I don't understand a word of it.
The left is evil and knows full well what it’s up to.
There is nothing spoken by them that is an accident. It’s all deliberate. They know what they are doing in trying to sway opinion.
When a ‘conspiracy theory’ turns out to be...not a theory ?
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When ?
When it’s labeled a right wing conspiracy theory, 10 out of 10 times.
I agree, Never confuse someone who is just pure evil with being naive
yesterdays conspiracies is todays truths
I’ve stopped using the term “conspiracy theory” and started calling them “spoiler alerts.”
And Washington Examiner knew that when they wrote this article.
MSM really stands together
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