Ding! Dong! The witch is etc.
Posted on 08/22/2024 8:05:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In Bob Dylan’s criminally overlooked 2003 cinematic masterpiece, “Masked and Anonymous,” a newspaper editor tells a reporter: “I will tell you this, there is a story there… Make something out of it. And if you can't do that, sir, then — make it up!” It’s advice that actual journalists today all too often follow. Sometimes, however, they get caught, as PBS just was. Rick laid out all the ugly details here.
What is noteworthy is that PBS was clearly caught out because it thought it had a sensational story, one so useful to the leftist cause that it just had to be true. Any critical eye it might once have had is long gone, and now PBS and the rest judge stories only on the basis of how bad they make Trump and other patriots look.
In the fake story at hand, not only did the most evil man on earth, Donald Trump, violate the Logan Act by calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and trying to conduct American foreign policy as a private citizen, but during the call, Trump pressured Netanyahu not to conclude a ceasefire until after the election because peace in Gaza would only help Kamala Harris. Why, the self-serving monster! He would rather have innocent people in Gaza die than see his reelection chances suffer!
It was even worse than Trump’s phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy that got him impeached the first time, and PBS ran hard with it, no doubt once again seeing visions of Trump’s political career finally going up in flames. There was just one problem: it was fake news.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
It is good of Woodruff to apologize; usually, her fellow propagandists just plow ahead with their lies, half-truths, and distortions. Woodruff took the unusual step of “expressing regret for reporting this week that in a phone call, Trump urged Netanyahu to delay a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas until after the 2024 presidential election to benefit him politically.”
Woodruff said, "This was a mistake and I apologize for it.” That’s great, really, but where did she get the story, and why did she think it was credible?
Besides, she put the story out there, and the retraction won’t reach half the people who heard the lie and believed it.
I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters...
And there you have the game. Had she sourced those reports she'd have walked away scot-free. She didn't because every sentient being in the United States knows perfectly well that Axios and Reuters are Trump-hating activist liars. And because she hates Trump so much herself that it didn't occur to her to check the matter.
In his second term, President Trump should cut all taxpayer funding to PBS (and NPR). That PBS has not fired or suspended Woodruff is, once more, further evidence that radical leftist PBS is willing to give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
I believe that’s the whole point of the lady’s made up story. The left will believe it and keep repeating it just like they do about Project 2025. They’re only too willing to lie in order to win.
Yes, and he should also defund msnbc, abc and cnn as well.
Reddit is still going on and on about why isn’t anyone doing anything regarding the new report that “Drumpf raped young girls on Epstein’s Island??”!!
“That’s great, really, but where did she get the story, and why did she think it was credible?”
Did she care one way or the other?
I suspect the only thing she regrets is that she got caught out.
Dan Rather thought his National Guard letter was a great idea until he got caught.
Actually, it all came from just one “journalist” at Axios. Because the Reuters report merely quoted Axios, so they did no original “reporting” themselves.
“Woodruff said, “This was a mistake and I apologize for it.” That’s great, really, but where did she get the story, and why did she think it was credible?”
True journalism is over...has been for a very long time. NO ONE does the necessary research to verify anything before they run with it!!
VERY unprofessional
No it was NOT a mistake so that was NOT an apology! She said she “regrets” reporting what she did because she got CAUGHT! SHE SHOULD BE FIRED.
What is this term “caught out?” I’m old and I’ve never heard it before.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly." "But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." "For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men." "He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist." "A murderer is less to fear.."
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
All Trump can do is call for Congress to defund PBS/NPR. He will hopefully be President, not king. Will even a Republican-controlled Congress do it? I rather doubt it.
Defund and ban PBS.
The media is not just an arm of the DNC.
It is an arm of the Communist Party USA.
Oh, dear. Now that is a problem, isn’t it? Maybe it was the voices in her head.
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