Posted on 08/13/2018 5:21:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
"The dirty war on the free press must end."
That's the idea behind an unusual editorial-writing initiative that has enlisted scores of newspapers across America.
The Boston Globe has been contacting newspaper editorial boards and proposing a "coordinated response" to....
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100 newspapers owned by how many media companies...?
Bet that second number is far smaller, eh?
Oh, that’ll hurt. /s
Journolist 3.0
More WINNING!
What’s a newspaper? Something akin to a buggy whip, I believe.
they were so upset that the “unite the right” rally didn’t draw but 20 people, of which 16 were minorities! They were ready to pin any violence on Trump, but the alt right knew the plan.... they stayed away...
So, the antifa and lefties were left with nothing to do except attack the NBC and CNN journalists! lol
Too funny, even Jack Tapper went off on the antifa.
So... Antifa ACTUALLY attacks the journalists, but “BLUMPFHFHFHF!!!!!!”
Hilarious. Even with the deep state false flag plants at the rally, they could make nothing out of it... MSM gets owned.
Egg on face once again.
Do you think all these papers will now join to condemn Antifa attacks on the media? The American people see what is going on...
Journolist 3.0
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Exactly.
The beat goes on....for the leftist media.
And that is why I call them the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL.
Journ-o-list v??.xx
“The war on the dirty press must end with antitrust.”
“”The dirty war on the free press must end.””
In this edition of “the law of unintended consequences” we’ll show you how the free press is not free at all, but a tool used by the Democrat party to further its socialist agenda.
Great! Remind everyone why they voted Trump.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3666946/posts
‘JournoList’ 2 Revealed, over 400 ‘Left-Of-Center’ Members
Breitbart ^ | 28 June 2018 | Charlie Nash
An “off-the-record” private discussion group for left-wing journalists, similar to the controversial “JournoList” cabal, has been discovered. The group, which is hosted on Google Groups, was discovered after messages from New York Magazine journalist Jesse Singal were leaked.
“The listserv, per its ‘About’ page, aims to provide an ‘off-the-record discussion forum for left-of-center journalists, authors, academics, and wonks.’ It has been around for at least eight years (I found discussion posts dating back as far as 2010), and has just over 400 members (403 at the time of this writing),” reported Jezebel. “These members include New York Times best-selling authors, Ivy League academics, magazine editors, and other public intellectuals—in short, a lot of important people who influence public discourse through their written work.”...
A couple weeks ago I came across an old article about Journolist which I found striking. In particular, I was struck by the ways in which some of the debates taking place among left-leaning journalists back in 2008 still seem to encompass the ways the left-wing media operates today.
For those who don’t remember it, Journolist was just a listserv created by Ezra Klein. The list was invitation only and was mostly made up of progressive journalists. In theory, the list was a kind of digital water cooler where like-minded people could talk to others in the field. That may have been all it was much of the time, but when candidate Obama got in trouble in 2008, it also became a place for partisans to discuss a coordinated media strategy.
Author Jonathan Strong wrote this particular piece about the Journolist response to a crisis in the 2008 campaign. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as you probably remember, was the pastor of the church Obama attended. He was the pastor who married Barack and Michelle and the person who inspired the title of Obama’s book: The Audacity of Hope. Wright was also a far-left crank who regularly denounced America. From ABC News, March 2008:
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Obama would eventually denounce Wright and quit the church in June, but in the interim, it seemed possible the issue could seriously damage Obama’s campaign. Journolist members discussed various ways to respond to the Rev. Wright story. Michael Tomasky (now at the Daily Beast) wanted members of the list to “kill ABC” and thereby kill the story:
Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”
“Richard Kim got this right above: ‘a horrible glimpse of general election press strategy.’ He’s dead on,” Tomasky continued. “We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease.”
Chris Hayes, then at the Nation and now an MSNBC host, gave an impassioned plea (which sounded a bit like Rev. Wright) suggesting people in the mainstream media simply refuse to cover the story at all:
Hayes castigated his fellow liberals for criticizing Wright. “All this hand wringing about just how awful and odious Rev. Wright remarks are just keeps the hustle going.”
“Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You’ll forgive me if I just can’t quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama’s pastor,” Hayes wrote.
Hayes urged his colleagues – especially the straight news reporters who were charged with covering the campaign in a neutral way – to bury the Wright scandal. “I’m not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don’t think he’s worthy of defense, don’t defend him! What I’m saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable,” Hayes said.
Finally, Spencer Ackerman (also now at the Daily Beast) argued members of the list should put conservatives covering the Wright story on the defensive by calling them racist:
I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.
And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
When Kevin Drum (Mother Jones) argued that wasn’t the kind of campaign Obama wanted to run, Ackerman replied, “Kevin, I’m not saying OBAMA should do this. I’m saying WE should do this.” The particular charge, in this case, was racism because it was a defense of Obama, but more broadly this kind of strategic attack comes in several flavors including charges of sexism, anti-gay hate, Islamophobia, etc.
The Journolist discussion took place nearly a decade ago, but in retrospect, I’m struck by how these three basic approaches—kill it, ignore it, call them haters—seem like media archetypes now. You can probably think of your own examples but the ones that come immediately to mind are CBS News decision to sit on video showing President Obama had not called the Benghazi attack terrorism until hours before the election. You may recall that Obama was widely considered the loser of the 1st presidential debate with Mitt Romney. He needed a comeback win. And the winning moment of the 2nd debate was his exchange with Romney on Benghazi. Obama claimed he had called the attack terrorism the next day. But an excerpt from 60 Minutes which remained on the cutting room floor showed that wasn’t true. CBS News knew it had the clip which would cut the legs out from Obama after the 2nd debate and it sat on until a couple days before the election when it quietly posted it online.
I also think of the media’s response to the Kermit Gosnell story. Gosnell, as you’ll recall, was convicted of murder for “snipping” the necks of infants born alive. He was eventually convicted of three counts of first-degree murder (and several other charges) but testimony in the case suggested he had been doing this for years if not decades. The total number of victims is unknown but it is likely that, if they were all accounted for, Gosnell would be the most prolific serial killer in United States history. The media’s response to this: Ignore it.
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One progressive health reporter (now at Vox) infamously said she wasn’t covering it because it was a local crime story:
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And do I really need to point out examples of the left-wing media calling people racist or sexist or Islamophobes? I don’t even know how to narrow this down. I’ll just point out that just last week many media outlets ran with the claim that House Speaker Paul Ryan was enforcing a new dress code aimed at making women cover themselves (shades of the Handmaid’s Tale). In fact, the dress code had been in place for many years, including under Nancy Pelosi, but the facts really were an afterthought. Speaker Ryan announced he would relax the dress code and Democratic women celebrated their right to bare arms as if this was a major victory. One progressive journalist pointed out that the fake attack had been effective (though he said he wasn’t endorsing fake attacks).
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To be clear, I’m not claiming that these three approaches are all the left-wing media does. The racism and sexism attacks have certainly become more common but these three approaches really go into high gear when something important is at stake, i.e. Obama’s election, abortion rights. In those cases, the left is not above using its numerical and influential dominance of the media for its own ends. This is why there’s really no alternative to seeking more ideological parity at major news outlets. Progressives in the media may be able to play it straight much of the time but if they’re going to cheat when it really counts, someone needs to be there in the room to call them on it.
JournOlists Morph Into the “Gamechanger Salon”
Michelle Obama’s Mirror ^ | 8-10-2014 | MOTUS
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3191132/posts
You’ve probably heard about the successor organization to Ezra Klein’s super-secret JournOlist. This one calls itself the “Gamechanger Salon.”
A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.
Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.
Seriously, the only surprise on that list is the Al Jazeera producer: we expected much more from them.
Here’s a look at some of the usual suspects amongst the “GAMECHANGERS...”
he archive of Journolist has been released to Gawker by the hacker Guccifer, and it presents a terrible dilemma for anyone connected to the Washington reporter scene from 2007ish to 2009, when it was revealed that some people made fun of Sarah Palin on the secret reporter listserv. As Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan explains, it forced some reporters to publicly apologize, stirred up conservative outrage, and Dave Weigel left The Washington Post in the aftermath, only to be hired by Slate.
The listserv caused problems for a few people who were on it. But now that the whole thing is public, it’s created a problem for those who weren’t. Do you search for your name?(continued)
Late Tuesday we reported that several lefty bloggers known to be very close to the Obama White House were in fact meeting in the White House. The meeting came a day ahead of hearings in which IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify to the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Lerner even refused to testify about her own previous statements on the IRS abuse scandal.
Today, we may be seeing the results of that Tuesday afternoon confab at the White House.
Josh Marshall (10:15a.m.): Lerner Must Go http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/she_has_to_go.php …
Ezra Klein (9:45a.m.): Heads should roll at IRS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/22/yes-heads-should-roll-at-the-irs/ …10:40 AM - 22 May 2013
Yes, heads should roll at the IRS It’s hard to fire civil servants. But that doesn’t mean it can’t, or shouldn’t, be done. Washington Post @washingtonpost
The synchronicity is striking.
It’s also an indication of just how worried the White House is, and how it intends to contain the scandal. First, get reliably friendly bloggers and columnists on board with a story that focuses attention away from the White House. Then, isolate and target someone who has already become a central figure in the scandal and, more importantly, who does not work directly for the White House. Finally, make it appear as if these reliably friendly bloggers actually take the IRS scandal seriously, so they become voices in the larger media advocating for a strong response — just strong enough to look decisive, while keeping the White House outside the main storyline.
FakeNewsMedia colludes on their propaganda
And the only way we can combat it is through online and social media and they’re trying to pull that rug out from under any conservative voices
Cancelled all “news” paper subscriptions long ago, you can get better information by watching Indian smoke signals.
This “anti-press” rhetoric is long overdue. The MSM has been pushing a leftist agenda for a few decades and should have been called on it years ago. My only complaint is that more Republicans aren’t joining President Trump in this necessary undertaking.
“The media is a giant pile of foul smelling groupthink”
They need to print some analysis of the accuracy and balance of their reporting. That’s where Trump is having a problem with them.
100 screaming articles of excrement, fit only for training your puppy.
It is funny that their way of responding to the fact that they are monolithic and have only one point of view is to coordinate a single point of view. Go mockingbirds!
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