[“9 Signs a News Outlet Might be Biased.”]
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 11:55:00 A.M. EDT
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
1. Over a quarter of the onscreen personnel are minority.
2. They over-emphasize White crime (when it occurs), and barely report black crime (which occurs non-stop).
3. Show blacks as being persecuted.
4. Show blacks as upstanding citizens.
5. Make editorial comments as news. “In a debunked theory…”
6. Quote the washington post, new york times, cnn, nbc, cbs or ap.
7. They call January 6th “a riot,” or “the darkest day in our history.”
8. Call police “racist.”
9. Push the “White Privilege” bull.
If the station or network coverage contains any of the above, you can be sure they have an agenda and are not reporting “the news” honestly.
--GRA
Being Sidney Powell is harder than it used to be.
ReplyDeleteOnce, she was a key player in Donald Trump’s inner circle. These days, she might have trouble just getting in the front door.
The “Kraken” queen long ago removed herself from acceptability among the more respectable GOP circles with a constant stream of bizarre election conspiracy theories. But knowledgeable sources tell The Daily Beast that the places she’s unwelcome now include Trump properties, where advisers look to keep the former president away from her.
Her unrelenting antics have put her on an informal list of people to intercept should they ever appear, or if they even just try to call the 45th U.S. president.
Powell is facing a number of legal headaches. She and her nonprofit, Defending the Republic, are both named as defendants in a billion dollar defamation suit by Dominion Voting Systems. She’s been sanctioned by a Michigan judge for filing a frivolous election suit in the state, faces calls for her disbarment in Texas, and her nonprofit is still waiting to find out its punishment for running afoul of Florida’s rules for charity fundraising. Despite the mounting challenges, Powell was still posting new election conspiracy theories to her nonprofit’s website as recently as Wednesday.
MAGAworld and the conservative movement have shown themselves to be disturbingly fertile ground for election-related conspiracy theories and lies, particularly those used to crack down on voting rights. And yet Powell’s behavior and some of her debunked claims have—nearly a full year after Election Night 2020—continued to alienate her from other leading Trump loyalists, MAGA celebs, and the broader movement.
And yet, Powell’s conduct has somehow proven just a little too embarrassing for many of them—including, it appears, Donald Trump himself.
Two lawyers who currently work for Trump or in the former president’s inner orbit say they want absolutely nothing to do with her and have cautioned others in MAGAland to do the same. One said they’d recently deleted her phone number.
Two other people familiar with the matter said that ever since he left office in January, certain advisers and longtime associates to Trump have kept an informal shortlist of people who they should look out for, including at Trump’s private clubs or offices in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. The point of this roster is to intercept and possibly rebuff attempted outreach, visits, or phone calls from a handful of conservative figures who could bring the ex-president more undesired headaches.
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“Sidney is very much on the no-go list,” one of the knowledgeable sources said. “Her problems right now do not need to be the [former] president’s problems.”
Powell’s legal exposure right now is, of course, massive. And ever since she tried to work with Trump to orchestrate a coup last year against Joe Biden, feelings of frustration and bitterness have lingered between Trump and Powell. According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, since December, Powell has privately talked about how disappointed she was in Trump because he didn’t end up appointing her to a “special” role in his White House, where she would have probed “election fraud” conspiracy theories during the final days of his term.
“She sounded pretty broken up about it,” this person noted. “I felt sorry for her.”
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteIs there a mainstream news outlet that doesn't check off on all those? Unless Fox or Breitbart count, I can't think of any.
"1. Over a quarter of the onscreen personnel are minority."
ReplyDeleteThat few?
“The news and truth are not the same thing.”~~Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974
ReplyDelete“We tell the people what they need to know, not what they want to know.” ~~Frank Sesno, CNN News
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
~Richard Salent, former President of CBS News.
“I feel sorry for the man who, after reading the daily newspaper, goes to bed believing he knows something of what’s going on in the world.” -— Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” — Richard M. Cohen, former Senior Producer of CBS political news
'Our Job Is to Control Exactly What People Think’: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he [Trump] is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens [just the opposite happened-PR], he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."- MSNBC's Mika Brzezinsk
"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it."-John Swinton, was a noted journalist, economist, and orator, the chief editorial writer at The New York Times, and an editorial writer for The New York Sun
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” -Thomas Jefferson
"The People will believe what the media tell them to believe." -George Orwell