Posted on 04/09/2024 3:34:36 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
Senior NPR business editor Uri Berliner admitted in an explosive op-ed published Tuesday that the public radio station’s RussiaGate reporting was a bust, and that it did not fess up to that after no “Russian collusion” was found between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Furthermore, Berliner admitted that then-California Senate candidate Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) became the news outlet’s “guiding hand” in this fruitless endeavor, and expressed regret in hitching its wagon to him. Schiff was the main pusher of the Russia collusion hoax in Congress and had repeatedly insisted there was “circumstantial evidence” of collusion.
Berliner, in his op-ed published in the Free Press, wrote that the rise of advocacy at NPR “took off” with the election of former President Donald Trump in 2016.
“As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair,” he wrote. “But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.”
He said “persistent rumors” that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia “became the catnip that drove reporting.”
“At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff,” Berliner wrote, adding:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I see a future Trump witness testifying here...
Yeah. Telling the truth that they are gullible morons.
Heads up
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Confirmation bias runs rampant on FR as well.
And now Shifty Schiff wants to be elevated to Senator. Instead he should be prosecuted for lying about “having evidence” which he never had. Hope Garvey nails to him to a tree.
Excellent. A public confession. We can go straight to the hanging.
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Only regret that it didn’t work, not that it was known to be a lie all along.
Trying to get out ahead of a Trump win. Too late fool.
“ “As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair,” he wrote. ”
So much for objectivity in the media.
“But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.”
Our tax dollars at work!
DEFUND NPR and all taxpayer-funded parasite media outlets!!
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
The Free Press ^ | April 9, 2024 | Uri Berliner
Posted on 4/9/2024, 11:04:43 AM by Red Badger
‘It’s Devastating’: 25-Year NPR Veteran Cops To All The Biased Coverage Outlet Pushed During Trump Years
Daily Caller ^ | April 09, 2024 10:49 AM ET | JASON COHEN
Posted on 4/9/2024, 10:46:18 AM by Red Badger
Barf Alerts.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a miss. The lies shaped the political opinions of a lot gullible people. I’m sure a lot of them still believe the lies.
The MAIN POINT that he made, which likely went over the heads of most here, was the way his colleges at NPR simply stop talking about a story once its been debunked (like Trump ‘collusion’ with Russia) and move on to the next story. This is in lieu of what is expected in these cases, which include OUTING ‘sources’ that fed them lies, APOLOGIZING to their audience, and putting processes in place to prevent similar recurrences.
The fact that NONE of these steps were taken PROVES that they’ve moved from being reporters (if they ever were) to being PLAYERS, and thus need to be dealt with on those terms.
More here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4230015/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4230011/posts
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Simple explanation for what they did. “Tell them what they want to hear and they never question what you say”.
Good points.
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