Posted on 11/23/2024 6:17:36 AM PST by bitt
Many news outlets have published Robert F. Kennedy Jr. profiles in the past 18 months, but The Washington Post’s in June was the only one to warrant a 20-page response from the Trump HHS nominee
(This story is the first in a four-part series this month by Just the News on self-described watchdogs who push for censorship.)
“If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country,” President-elect Donald Trump said in a video posted to social media just day after winning reelection on Nov. 5. “Today, I’m announcing my plan to shatter the left-wing censorship regime.”
Not mentioned by name, though alluded to, are the various non-profit and for-profit groups that have sprung up to battle “fake news” but typically target outlets that lean right of center. Those group include the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), Media Matters for America (MMFA), the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and NewsGuard.
“When I am president, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large,” Trump also announced.
With his bold pronouncements in mind, the following is Part 1 of a four-part series – a deep dive into some of the organizations to which he was likely referring. Critics of their work say it leads to censorship and loss of advertising for the media outlets that dare challenge the legacy media’s approved narrative.
Trusted News Initiative
Multiple outlets have published profiles of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the past 18 months, though only The Washington Post’s in June warranted a 20-page response from Kennedy that includes 78 footnotes. The letter, reviewed by Just the News, includes the expected complaints: The writer referred to Kennedy’s claims as “conspiracy theories” or as having been “debunked,” though he says they hadn’t been.
Too many journalists do not “speak truth to power,” Kennedy wrote, but instead “serve as propagandists pouring concrete on official orthodoxies, and attacking dissent.” The Washington Post did not respond to a request for comment.
Peppered throughout the letter are references to something called the Trusted News Initiative, a global consortium of members founded in 2019 by the BBC that also includes the Associated Press, Reuters, Microsoft, Google, YouTube and The Washington Post. Its goal: combat disinformation.
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Kennedy didn’t respond to a request for comment, though in his letter to The Post he wrote: “TNI’s members collectively agreed to suppress prohibited claims online by publicly disparaging them as ‘misinformation’ and ‘conspiracy theories.’ Your article about me illustrates, perfectly, those corporate diktats.”
STop reading headlines and being manipulated. Your are going to have to learn to read and think. In every articicle there are elements of truth. we have to dig them out.
I am always so amazed at how FR is manipulated by headlines.
I have to admit I am not sure what that article was about.
I'm not sure what your comments mean.
I read the entire story, and it matches 100% my view of how we've been manipulated by story after story and lies for quite a long time. From social media blocking stories that did not fit the government line to the same with sources like BBC, CNN, NBC, NYT, etc.
It's like Joseph Goebbels has been reincarnated!
I can only pray that Trump and RFK get to take over our tyrannical government and media on January 20th and stop this mind-warping madness.
The "real truth will set us free."
HUGE QUESTION:
So it is proven conclusively that the 2020 election was stolen. Now what?
The Biden presidency in total was illegal. Every act and bill of his presidency is immediately legally not valid.
Chew on that for a while........
STop reading headlines and being manipulated. Your are going to have to learn to read and think.
I’m not sure what your comments mean.
The need to read critically is needed in all articles. I am pointing out that we do the same with headlines as liberals
A liberal reads that headline and what does he think? Is there a better headline?
THE ONLY thing the MEDIA doesn’t lie about is SPORTS SCORES
So it is proven conclusively that the 2020 election was stolen. Now what?
Before you can solve a problem, you have to understand the problem, dig down to the root cause(s) and broken process(es).
Allegory: transport airliner crash. First, you have to figure out what caused the uncontrolled conversion from flight to ground. Once you have identified all the elements that resulted in the unwanted occurrence, you can see about keeping the accident from happening again.
In the case of elections, you have to try to ACCURATELY identify each and every unfair action. Remember, we are talking about just over 3000 counties across the 50 states. That means the election attack surface consists of more than 3050 different systems where things can go wrong.
The big items are obvious and well-known: polluted voting rolls, no ID check, bogus ballots, illegal voters. So the job of the post-crash investigation is to learn the details about how these problems come about.
As for the aftermath of the Biden presidency, our system can work to reverse the harm caused. And to prevent a "next time."
Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them, in one page not a book.
Uh, no. It doesn't work that way. Regardless of whether the vote count in certain individual states in November 2020 was fraudulent, once the Electoral Votes were rendered, counted, and certified by Congress on January 6, 2021, that was the end of the matter. Biden was the "President-elect" at that point, and his term as President, per Amendment XX of the Constitution, began at noon on January 20, 2021.
Sorry, but that's just how it works.
The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
But I'm sure that they are working on that lack ...
Which reminds me of an old joke about the Soviet press reporting during the height of the Cold War. In reporting the results of a two-person race between a Soviet runner and an American runner, which was won by the American:
"In a contest between an American athlete and a Russian athlete, the Soviet finished second behind the winner while the American finished next to last, once again proving the supremacy of the Soviet system."
These groups are the anthisis of a free country and culture. God willing Trump will be able to expose them all for the WOKE/anti-American groups they are. Pull their tax exemptions for starters - they support illegal activities.
These groups are the antithesis of a free country and culture. God willing Trump will be able to expose them all for the WOKE/anti-American groups they are. Pull their tax exemptions for starters - they support illegal activities.
There are two kinds of conservatives:
—Those who conserve leftist victories
—Those who fight and resist and roll back leftist victories by any means necessary
Gullibility for headlines gave us the Qtards.
That is definitely the truth!
Read entire articles? Who has the time or patience to sift through verbal mind vomit?
ok, thanks. Did not know that.
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