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CNN’s new CEO is looking at the ratings, looking at the salaries of his overpaid anchors, and thinking it’s time to make some changes.
InTouch reports, “New CEO Mark Thompson is preparing ruthless cuts to remake the network as ratings plunge — leaving Anderson Cooper, Chris Wallace, Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper facing dates with the axman, a source says.”
breitbart.com/the-media/2024/0

Breitbart · Nolte: Report — CNN’s Cooper, Wallace, Tapper on ‘Chopping Block’CNN CEO Mark Thompson is looking at the ratings, looking at the salaries of his overpaid anchors, and thinking it’s time to make some changes.
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August 16, 2017.
NBC News publishes an article spreading the Fine People Hoax.
A complete lie.
Coauthored by Chuck Todd.
x.com/mazemoore/status/1772771

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apnews.com/article/misinformat
This article is a must read.

The AP are openly admitting that the MSM are getting outworked by random people online who have amassed substantial influence, and how this is a significant threat to democracy 😂

Another pathetic effort to deter the masses from citizen journalists.
x.com/WarClandestine/status/17

AP News · Anonymous accounts use right-wing channels to spread misinformationBy ALI SWENSON
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Senior NPR editor uri berliner has been suspended from the public radio network he's served for 25 years after sharing concerns about bias in The Free Press: thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr

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x.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1
If you write articles like this, you’re part of the problem

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video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1
x.com/kylenabecker/status/1783
Here is in 2017 reporting on Hillary voters seeking to "overturn" the results of Trump's election.

The report concedes that in America's "democracy" political candidates have the right to challenge elections with alternate slates of electors.

You can't make this stuff up.

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video.twimg.com/amplify_video/
Remember when ’s Van Jones outlined the possibility of having two sets of electors in the case of a contested election while the courts and Congress settled the dispute?

Now they’re indicting people for being involved in a legal process.

They want this video memory holed.

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The media feeds on negativity.

This is how the media covers the company that is set to change the lives of millions and benefit humanity.

Perhaps they should read what the patient himself said about his experience:

“Y'all are giving me too much, it's like a luxury overload, I haven't been able to do these things in 8 years and now I don't know where to even start allocating my attention.

The biggest thing with comfort is that I can lie in my bed and use 'The Link'.
x.com/cb_doge/status/178855903

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Any other assistive technology had to have someone else help or have me sit up.
Sitting causes stress mentally and on my body which would give me pressure sores or spasms.
It lets me live on my own time,
not needing to have someone adjust me, etc.
throughout the day.
'The Link' has helped me reconnect with the world, my friends, and my family.
It's given me the ability to do things on my own again without needing my family at all hours of the day and night.”

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video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1
x.com/mazemoore/status/1790743
November, 2023.
PBS host / state propaganda lackey pompously argues with RFK Jr about the number of immigrants that have entered the country during Biden's first three years.
he would never talk to Biden like this.
She was wrong, of course.

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x.com/StephenM/status/17926013
The intellectual dishonesty from the is bottomless.
Yes, Congress made noncitizen voting illegal three decades ago.
But all 50 states have been blocked by the courts from *implementing* that law:
not one state in America is allowed to verify citizenship before voting.
Not one.
apnews.com/article/voting-immi

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thread by Drew Holden
re our illustrious MSM
May 28, 2024
drewholden.substack.com/p/reme
Remember When a Trump Airstrike Was Going to Start WW3?
That was only the tip of the iceberg of the awful coverage of the death of Soleimani, the Iranian terrorist the media turned into something of a folk hero.
Today’s thread focuses on two of the media’s weaknesses:
1) making predictions about world events, and
2) greeting the passing of public figures. 

Holden Court · Remember When a Trump Airstrike Was Going to Start WW3?By Drew Holden
May 28, 2024, 10:24 PM·Public
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In focus is Qasem Soleimani,
an Iranian general who controlled a global terror network and was responsible for perhaps tens of thousands of deaths around the globe,
including hundreds of American servicemembers.
defense.gov/News/Releases/Rele
He was killed by an air strike in January 2020 ordered by former President Donald Trump.
The responses to that killing, and the predictions that it spawned,
haven’t aged well. 

U.S. Department of DefenseStatement by the Department of DefenseAt the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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Neither have the ways that outlets described a brutal murderer whom they humanized in an effort to make Trump look bad.
With the death of another Iranian leader in the news,
I wanted to revisit this media moment.
I wasn’t prepared for how bad the coverage was.
nytimes.com/2024/05/25/world/m

The New York Times · 17 Hours to Find the Crash That Killed Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s PresidentBy Farnaz Fassihi
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Media coverage: The media cycle really started when Trump tweeted out an image of the American flag to celebrate the news of Soleimani’s killing. Whatever you think of the guy, taking out someone who killed American troops and then heralding the news by tweeting out an image of Old Glory is pretty badass.

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The press, by contrast, were aghast. This wasn’t the way to conduct world affairs. MSNBC quickly organized a panel (look at all the faces) to say Trump ”overplayed his hand” and was making the world more dangerous.
msnbc.com/david-gura/watch/has

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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour called the move part of a policy that was “clear, present and dangerous.”

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Perhaps the most outlandish came from Time magazine, who published guidance for how to talk to your child about the killing of an Iranian terrorist. 

No, really.

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Outlets climbed over one another to claim that a war with Iran—perhaps even World War III—was imminent. 
Washington Post declared, “Trump plunges toward the kind of Middle Eastern conflict he pledged to avoid,” which went on to argue that Trump was “taking his presidency into just the kind of foreign entanglement he pledged to avoid.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/tr

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CNN likewise said his move “committed the United States to a risky open conflict.” Perhaps I had simply forgotten when that happened?

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I wonder if NPR wondered why the foreign minister of Iran was so interested in talking to them?
Maybe it was their fawning coverage to date?
Doesn’t NPR still get tax-payer funding?

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There were, on balance,
some places who were more level-headed,
like Politico (immediately after the strike, no less)
politico.com/news/magazine/202
and Brookings,
brookings.edu/articles/war-wit
who went against the grain and said that people were overhyping the move.
In retrospect, that idea has, of course, held up well.

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Especially because the war the media were so concerned about didn’t come to pass,
like many of the press’s predictions about foreign policy during the Trump years.
As I wrote a couple months ago at the Washington Free Beacon:
freebeacon.com/media/the-media
nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr
washingtonpost.com/politics/eu
washingtonpost.com/news/the-fi
politico.com/story/2017/02/tru
apnews.com/article/0dcb0179faf

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But where the coverage really came off the rails was around Soleimani himself. The brutal Iranian butcher reviled by countless Iranians and others in the region was reborn in death as something of a misunderstood folk hero. It was all Iranian propaganda—as even an NBC News op-ed pointed out—but that didn’t seem to matter. Outlets pumped out piece after piece about Soleimani’s funeral and the tears of the Ayatollah. Here’s NPR, Associated Press, and Reuters.
marketwatch.com/story/internat

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Again, this was all a flash of propaganda to build support for the terrorist-supporting regime in Iran.
Why did places like PBS (“military icon”), 
New York Times (live updates??),
and Washington Post promote it?
pbs.org/newshour/show/iranians

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It wasn’t just headlines.
Numerous outlets described the funeral as if it were for the main character of an action movie,
like Iran’s James Bond had just died tragically.
CNN said, “[m]any clasped their hands together in prayer and bowed before the casket, openly weeping.”
cnn.com/2020/01/07/middleeast/

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ABC News took great pains not only to include mentions of Soleimani as a “hero” but to promote actual Iranian propaganda about the crowd size.
After pointing out that anyone who didn’t take part in this kabuki theater could be jailed or killed by the regime
—I can’t believe I’m writing this—
ABC said of the mourners:
“[b]ut the emotion in the crowds was palpable.”

I’ve…got nothing.

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His obituaries were similarly unhinged. The media were so virulently anti-Trump that they made the man he had executed
—a barbaric butcher who made a profession out of killing innocents for an evil regime—
into a sympathetic figure.

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