Media Bias

[Cunt]

Would you stand against the fascism that is brought to bear against this bookstore, for simply selling a hated book?

I might, but honestly, I would be quite afraid to do so in Portland. I probably wouldn't.

[JimC]

I have said that I don't approve of actions demanding that the bookstore not sell the book. I'd be perfectly happy with a peaceful protest outside, saying the book is a load of shit and urging people not to buy it. I have no need to go further.

[JimC]

https://www.theage.com.au/business/comp ... 56wxz.html

Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire mogul behind Fox News, took issue with the silencing of debate on social media, saying censorship had hobbled discourse with “awful woke orthodoxy”.

Of course, as with all ultra-wealthy conservatives, he would prefer people to be asleep, not woke...

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, because the neo-liberal orthodoxy is as wholesome as apple pie eh?

[Sean Hayden]

A fake story about the secretary of defense stole my real byline

It started with an unusual email Friday afternoon: “Is this article true?”

The attached jpeg resembled a Defense News story complete with my byline, but instead of my work, it was a cocktail of lies and paranoia. There was the layout of one of my stories about the new defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, but some of the words matched a Washington Post article ― and it included both a false headline about Austin “defunding and dismantling” the U.S. Army and an equally false quote about America looking to China for its national defense.

Over the next few days, I’d receive more than five dozen more emails from strangers, most of them fearful this viral fake news was true. Meanwhile, I watched the meme stubbornly spread on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and maybe most of all, Telegram, a chat app popular with QAnon adherents that was first developed in Russia.

“Did you in fact write this article? If so is there some back up for it? I am a retired Marine and frankly this scares the shit out of me,” one man wrote.

For the first two days, I alerted the trickle of Facebook users who’d reposted it. But a search of Facebook on Sunday revealed a soul-crushing cascade: The image had been reposted dozens of times.

Weeks after a disinformation-fueled siege at the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers were confirming the national election results, this was an uncomfortably close look at a threat that’s long worried national security experts and scholars. The misinformation crisis will be a challenge for President Joe Biden, who called out the “attack on democracy and truth,” in his inaugural address by saying: “We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated, and even manufactured.”

Expect an uphill fight. A 2018 MIT study of Twitter found that false news travels faster than true stories, and not due to bots programmed to disseminate inaccurate stories, but people retweeting them. False news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories, and it takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people.

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Several users I contacted acknowledged the meme was false but stubbornly left it up because, to them, it showed larger truths about the new Biden administration.

“Not as farfetched as you think,” one man replied with regard to Austin. “What do you know of his past? Why was he chosen? Why did Biden already move in Syria? Why did he just make us dependent on foreign oil? Why is he against jets just sold to UAE? Why did he support past funding for Iran? Why did his past administration take out Seal Team Six and not lend aid to Bengahzi? Not farfetched at all. Corruption runs very deep with this guy.”

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/20 ... al-byline/

[Cunt]

The media should go all 'Russian Collusion Conspiracy' on him, or 'Ukraine Conspiracy Theory'.

That'll be fair!

[L'Emmerdeur]

I would not be surprised if we were treated to some variation of that meme here at some point. Some can't resist a dead squirrel.

[JimC]

I would not be surprised if we were treated to some variation of that meme here at some point. Some can't resist a dead squirrel.

Lak would sure deep fry one. Probably serve it with grits and collard greens...

[Brian Peacock]

[Cunt]

Would media show their bia$ by aligning to quell the gamestop rebellion?

[Cunt]

r/wallstreetbets says don't fall for the trick - don't buy silver.

Media market manipulation would suggest that you buy silver.

I'm not buying GSE, dogecoin OR silver. Just watching dispassionately. It still looks like a trap.

[Cunt]

Is it a conspiracy theory, or media bias, that certain subjects aren't often treated by the mainstream?

Rebel News, I'm told, is full of baloney, but I might give them a listen a bit later anyway.

https://www.rebelnews.com/islamism_is_a ... ive_agenda

Raheel joined Marty to discuss the release of her new book, The ABCs of Islamism, starting with the most important point first: the difference between Islam and Islamism.

As Raheel explained, Islam, like Judaism and Christianity is a faith. Islamism, on the other hand, “is a political ideology which uses Islam as a tool to promote it's subversive agenda.”

Raheel told Marty about how the goal of those pushing Islamism is to attack Western freedoms and values, weakening the society as a whole in an effort to gain more and more political power.

The ABCs of Islamism dissects every aspect of Islamism, including Sharia law, female genital mutilation, honour killings and more.

[Seabass]

NO ONE loves censorship more than conservatives, and yet no one bitches about being censored more than conservatives. From trying to run Howard Stern off the air his entire career, to canceling Phil Donahue for speaking out against the Iraq War, to canceling Bill Maher for saying that terrorist aren't cowards, to censoring naughty words and crotches and tits off of television, to trying to censor rap and rock music, to trying to ban books about gay relationships, and trying to ban Harry Potter books for teaching kids witchcraft, etc. etc...

And then these Fox News morons have the gall to bitch about censorship when they lose Twitter followers.

[Cunt]

NO ONE loves censorship more than conservatives, and yet no one bitches about being censored more than conservatives. From trying to run Howard Stern off the air his entire career, to canceling Phil Donahue for speaking out against the Iraq War, to canceling Bill Maher for saying that terrorist aren't cowards, to censoring naughty words and crotches and tits off of television, to trying to censor rap and rock music, to trying to ban books about gay relationships, and trying to ban Harry Potter books for teaching kids witchcraft, etc. etc...

And then these Fox News morons have the gall to bitch about censorship when they lose Twitter followers.

Crowder just announced a lawsuit against facebook. Big tech is pretty clearly not trustworthy. It's funny how many are happy with them censoring, with government protection.

Censorship by the establishment media will take place with regards to the current 'Game Stop' rebellion. Since it seems to be BOTH sides of Main Street going against Wall Street, it should show if the media is biased red or blue.

Or green.

[pErvinalia]

NO ONE loves censorship more than conservatives, and yet no one bitches about being censored more than conservatives. From trying to run Howard Stern off the air his entire career, to canceling Phil Donahue for speaking out against the Iraq War, to canceling Bill Maher for saying that terrorist aren't cowards, to censoring naughty words and crotches and tits off of television, to trying to censor rap and rock music, to trying to ban books about gay relationships, and trying to ban Harry Potter books for teaching kids witchcraft, etc. etc...

And then these Fox News morons have the gall to bitch about censorship when they lose Twitter followers.

Crowder just announced a lawsuit against facebook. Big tech is pretty clearly not trustworthy. It's funny how many are happy with them censoring, with government protection.

What government protection?