[VIDEO] Roger Ailes Dies at 77: Here is how the Mainstream Media Reacted
Posted: May 18, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Dailly Caller, Fox News, Mainstream media, media, news, Roger Ailes, Television, video | Leave a comment
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[VIDEO] Steyn: Maintream Media in Overdrive to Disprove Rice Story: ‘Media Annoyed Someone has Outfaked their Fake News’
Posted: April 7, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Reading Room, U.S. News | Tags: Mainstream media, Mark Steyn, media, Spying, Surveillance, Susan Rice, Tucker Carlson, video | Leave a commentRadio host and commentator Mark Steyn on liberal media dismissing the revelation of Susan Rice unmasking Trump associates under surveillance, decrying the story as a ‘diversion’ from the Russian collusion scandal.
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Mainstream Media’s Top 10 #FakeNews Stories
Posted: December 14, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Billy Bush, Democratic Party (United States), Direct election, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Electoral College (United States), George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, journalism, Mainstream media, media, Media malpractice, Mitt Romney, MSM, news, Presidency of George W. Bush, propaganda, Republican Party (United States) | Leave a commentThe mainstream media is the biggest purveyor of fake news.
Debra Heine writes: You gotta love our liberal media. Their entire modus operandi for at least the past two decades has been to shamelessly disseminate false left-wing narratives to the masses in their ongoing effort to discredit conservatism and further a progressive agenda. It’s what they do.
But since the election of Donald Trump, they have been obsessed with a new pet narrative: that a so-called “fake news” epidemic is occurring on the right.
This is partly because, I’m convinced, they resent the fact that some people on the alt-right are making inroads on their turf. But the “fake news” excuse also functions as a soothing balm for their wounded egos after their devastating 2016 election losses. It helps them deal with the uncomfortable fact that the electorate just rejected the hell out of the candidates for whom they blatantly shilled.
This happens every time the mainstream media’s favored party suffes a massive defeat at the polls, by the way. In 1994, they blamed their losses on the “angry white male.” After the 2010 “shellacking,” they attributed it to a menacing “climate of hate,”as personified by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.
And now we are asked to believe that fringe conspiracy theories like “PizzaGate” swung the 2016 election for Donald Trump. That may make the left feel better about losing, but their pathetic “fake news” narrative is a conspiracy theory in and of itself.
[Read the full list here, at PJ Media]
PizzaGate refers to a spectacular conspiracy theory surrounding Comet Ping Pong, a Baltimore pizza parlor that some internet sleuths claim is at the center of an international child sex ring run by Hillary Clinton and the Podesta brothers. This month, a man with an assault rifle walked into Comet Ping Pong to “self-investigate,” and reportedly fired the rifle at least once inside the restaurant. Luckily, no one was injured.
If only one could say the same about the countless left-wing fake news narratives that have been pushed by the MSM over the years.
For example, the PizzaGate conspiracy theory festered online only in places like 4Chan, Infowars, and Reddit.
But the “hands up, don’t shoot” conspiracy theory — which suggested a racist white cop shot an unarmed black teenager for no reason at all in Ferguson, Missouri — was propagated all over the mainstream news: CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and others. It even was heavily spread by elected members of the Democratic Party.
That fake news led to riots, and it’s no stretch of the imagination to assume that the ensuing murdered policemen were the result of some bad actors feeling justified in retaliating.
Here is a list of ten memorable fake news stories from the mainstream media.
1. RatherGate:
In an effort to influence the 2004 presidential election, Dan Rather used fake documents to claim that George W. Bush served dishonorably during his time in the Air National Guard:
CBS did its own investigation in the matter, and determined there were several serious breaches of handling this story, among them failure to identify the sources of the documents properly; failure to document the chain of custody of the documents; failure to establish the credibility of the documents.Those that tendered their resignations on request were: Senior Vice President Betsy West, the supervisor of primetime programs for CBS News; Josh Howard, the executive producer of Wednesday’s version of 60 Minutes; Mary Murphy, senior broadcast producer and Howard’s deputy. Mary Mapes, the actual producer of the Killian documents story, was terminated, in part for calling a senior official in John Kerry’s presidential campaign (Joe Lockhart) and offering to put him in touch with Burkett. The CBS panel called Mapes’ action a “clear conflict of interest that created the appearance of political bias.”
Unbowed and still convinced of the document’s authenticity, Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former corporate parent, Viacom on September 19, 2007, claiming he was made a “scapegoat”. A day later, Mapes wrote a column in the Huffington Post, claiming that far-right blogs have “pronounced themselves experts on document analysis, and began attacking the form and font in the memos. They screamed objections that ultimately proved to have no basis in fact … They dominated the discussion by churning out gigabytes of mind-numbing internet dissertations about the typeface in the memos, focusing on the curl at the end of the “a,” the dip on the top of the “t,” the spacing, the superscript, which typewriters were used in the military in 1972. It was a deceptive approach, and it worked”.
[Read the full list here, at PJ Media]
In a clear contradiction of her rant, Mapes did in fact have prior knowledge of Bush’s guard service in her hands but chose to ignore it. In a press release on January 10, 2005, Accuracy in Media reported that the internal investigation conducted by CBS into the “Rathergate” matter revealed that Mapes had documented information on hand which detailed Bush’s attempt to volunteer for duty as a fighter pilot in Vietnam but was denied by his superiors at the time due to his inexperience. Accuracy in Media Editor Cliff Kincaid explained:
“Mapes, who was very close to Rather and enjoyed his confidence, had the evidence exonerating Bush of this malicious charge. The report shows that there were multiple credible sources to prove that Bush did not try to avoid Vietnam by going into the National Guard and that he was in fact willing to go to Vietnam as a pilot. However, CBS News deliberately kept this information from its viewers and conveyed an opposite impression because Rather, Mapes & Company were trying to depict Bush as a coward who, as Commander-in-Chief, was sending American soldiers to their deaths in Iraq.”
The truth is that Bush, the alleged slacker, had volunteered to go to Vietnam while in the Texas Air National Guard, but was he was turned down because he didn’t have enough flight hours to qualify.
2. The Tucson Massacre Was Inspired by a “Climate of Hate”
On January 8, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on a Safeway parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, shooting U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the head, and eighteen others. Six people died, including a federal judge, one of Rep. Giffords’ staffers, and a nine-year-old girl. Read the rest of this entry »
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[VIDEO] CNN Host Blames Firebombing of North Carolina GOP Office on…Who?
Posted: October 17, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Campaign manager, CNN, Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Gateway Pundit, Mainstream media, Republican Party (United States), United States | Leave a comment
CNN host Brian Stetler blamed the fire bombing of a North Carolina GOP office on the “overheated rhetoric” of Donald Trump.
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[CHART] How the Media Rigged the Election for Hillary Clinton
Posted: October 16, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Election, Bill O'Rielly, Breakfast television, Buzzfeed, CBS, CNN, DNC, Donald Trump, Facebook, Free Media, Gary Johnson, Mainstream media, media, Media bias, NBC, news, NewsCorp, RNC, Sean Hannity, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Twitter | 1 CommentSource: New York Times
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Media’s Victory Celebration Comes Early
Posted: August 11, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Bill Clinton, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream media, media, news, propaganda, Time Magazine | Leave a commentRate this:
Question: Who Are Laws For?
Posted: July 5, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream media, Monica Lewinsky, Republican Party (United States) | 1 CommentDavid Lightman writes: It was another chapter in what’s now a 25-year-old saga that has seen Hillary and Bill Clinton survive controversies that usually end political careers. Think Bill Clinton’s denials of an extramarital affair early in his 1992 campaign for the presidency or his 1998 impeachment after the separate Monica Lewinsky dalliance exposed him to obstruction-of-justice claims.
Yet he wound up completing his term in 2001 with a 66 percent Gallup approval rating and his wife had been elected to the Senate.
The email mess that came to the public’s attention a year ago had been a weight around Hillary Clinton that she couldn’t shake, not with attempts at humor or lengthy explanations. Now it’s left to voters to settle whether the finding by FBI Director James Comey that no criminal charges are merited will put an end to the controversy.
[ALSO SEE – The American Elite and the American People by Victor Davis Hanson]
In focus groups in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida throughout this year, McClatchy found that the emails kept coming up among undecided voters. While most people were not familiar with the emails’ contents, they thought this much: They were stark evidence that Clinton was arrogant and untrustworthy.
The question now: Does Comey’s exoneration counter that view, even though the FBI found that Clinton and her aides “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”?
[Read the full story here, at McClatchy DC]
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Donald Trump TV Interview: One America News Website Crashes in Advance
Posted: August 28, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Mainstream media, media, news, One America News, Republican Party (United States), Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz | 1 CommentAndrew Wallenstein reports: A website for a small cable network that will feature Sarah Palin talking with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush crashed hours before the interviews were set to take place.
“So much interest in the interview of Donald J. Trump, Jeb Bush, and Ted Cruz tonight by Sarah Palin at 10 pm EST that you crashed the oann.com website! It will be up shortly – Thank you for the interest in One America News Network.”
Little-known One America News Network acknowledged the outage at 3:45 p.m. PT on Friday, citing widespread anticipation in the interviews. Read the rest of this entry »
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Editorial Meeting: How to Write a Headline
Posted: July 29, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Abortion, Abortion debate, Cecil the Lion, Framing device, journalism, Lion, Mainstream media, media, Media bias, Network News, news, Newsroom, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Life, The Hill | Leave a comment‘Ignore the Story, Cover the Pounce’
Noah Rothman on the Media’s Favorite Framing Device: ‘Republican Reaction’ Stories
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The ABC News Clinton Foundation Complex
Posted: May 18, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Comics, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: ABC News, George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream media, Media bias, Media malpractice, news, Political Cartoon, The Pantsuit Report | Leave a commentRate this:
Hillary Email Scandal: TMZ Doing the Job the Media Won’t
Posted: March 5, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Christian, David Keith, Democratic Party (United States), Hillary Clinton, JOHN NOLTE, Los Angeles Times, Mainstream media, NBC News, Republican Party (United States), Sarah Palin, Scott Walker (politician), The New York Times, The Washington Post, TMZ | 2 CommentsJohn Nolte writes: When it comes to the current scandal surrounding Democrat Hillary Clinton, the gossip/celebrity site TMZ is doing the job the mainstream media won’t. In the search for answers, TMZ was willing to send a staffer to the airport in the hopes that Ms. Clinton would answer questions about the scandal brewing around her decision to use only a private email hosted on her private server while serving as Secretary of State.
Two questions:
- Why wasn’t the mainstream media camped out with TMZ in the hopes of getting some answers?
- Why isn’t this video of Hillary refusing to answer running every fifteen minutes on cable news? I haven’t seen it once.
[Also see – How pathetic is THIS? Hey, MSM, ‘TMZ just ate your lunch’ on Hillary emails]
The answer of course is simple: Democrats sure got it good. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ten Mainstream Media Stars More Bigoted Than George Zimmerman
Posted: July 24, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Al Sharpton, BarackObama, Business, CNN, Florida, Mainstream media, media, NBC | Leave a commentMy headline is a little deceiving because it makes it sound as though there is something in George Zimmerman’s past, or in the events that led to the tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin, that indicates that he is in any way bigoted. On the contrary, from what we have learned about the 29 year-old Hispanic man, he exemplifies the American ideal of color blindness.
A thorough FBI investigation not only found that race had nothing to do with the shooting, but that there was no history of racism in Zimmerman’s past. Moreover, contrary to the media’s lies and evidence fabrication, Zimmerman has dated black women, has black relatives, tutored black children, stood up for a black homeless man against the police, and voted for Barack Obama.
Unfortunately, the same “no evidence of bigotry” statement cannot be said for a number of America’s top mainstream media stars. And so, in no particular order, here are the top media stars provably more bigoted than the man they have shamelessly and falsely attempted to destroy and defame as racist.
Please note that these are individuals who remain respected, and in some cases revered, among their media colleagues…
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1. NBC’s David “Food Stamps Are Black People” Gregory
During a now-infamous May of 2011 interview with Newt Gingrich, “Meet the Press” host David Gregory not only once again revealed his left-wing bias but also a troubling bigotry that automatically associates food stamps with black Americans.
Gregory’s willingness to further this stereotype on national television was especially disappointing.
This, despite the fact that a majority of the people on food stamps are white.
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2. Salon’s Joan “Food Stamps Are Black People” Walsh
Upon hearing the term “food stamps,” Ms. Walsh automatically thinks of black people. Despite this kind of stereotypical and bigoted thinking, Walsh remains a leftist-in-good-standing.
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3. New York Times’ Jonathan “Cracker” Martin
Though he was with the left-wing Politico at the time, back in February of 2012, the New York Times’ Jonathan Martin (picture above with his arm around David Axelrod) used the racially derogatory term “cracker” to describe Florida Republican voters during the 2012 presidential primary.
4. NBC’s Al “Crackers, Homos, Faggots, N**gers, Diamond Merchants,. and Chinamen” Sharpton
From my column yesterday:
Reverend Al is on tape in 1994 saying, “White folks was in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
Sharpton also uses the N-word to describe David Dinkins.
Here is video of Al Sharpton physically threatening a “punk faggot” sometime in the eighties.
In 1991, Sharpton ginned up a mob during the Crown Height riots, attacking Jews as “diamond merchants” and saying, ” All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no coffee klatsch, no skinnin’ and grinnin’.”
That same night a mob murdered an innocent Jewish tourist.
And I probably missed a few things.
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5 . Nancy “Taco Bell and Churros” Grace
In what is easily the most indefensible moment of open racism broadcast on a national cable news network, in early July of this year, CNN’s Nancy Grace — the face and star of HLN — described the Hispanic George Zimmerman as someone who spends his days “Driving through Taco Bell every night … having a churro.”