Showing posts with label The Media Monkeys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Media Monkeys. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Donald Trump Named Top Global Oppressor of the Press

U.S. News Media No Longer Allowed to Lick Their Own Balls

The Committee to Protect Journalists has named Donald Trump winner of its “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” in its “Press Oppressors” awards. The CPJ named Trump as the leader who most undermined press freedoms in 2017, despite the fact numerous other world leaders actually work to block the free press in their countries.
"While previous U.S. presidents have each criticized the press to some degree, they have also made public commitments to uphold its essential role in democracy, at home and abroad. Trump, by contrast, has consistently undermined domestic news outlets and declined to publicly raise freedom of the press with repressive leaders such as [Chinese President] Xi, [Turkish President] Erdoğan, and [Egyptian President] Sisi."
He gets a lot done with those tiny hands, doesn't he. Just goes to show a little determination goes along way. I mean China has the great firewall that censors speech in real time and requires news outlets to have licenses. Turkey, well they just kills journalists Erdogan doesn’t like, all the while Trump hasn’t even proposed legislation against the fifth estate, he just tweets.

Meanwhile, journalists in countries hostile to a free press are facing persecution every day around the world. According to Reporters Without Borders, all Middle Eastern, Asian, eastern European and most South American, Central American, African and Caribbean countries have a less free press than in America, yet their leaders aren’t as oppressive to journalists as Trump?

The committee actually maintains a list of countries where journalists are most likely to be killed by the government. I suppose the fact America isn’t on the list was why committee felt comfortable presenting their award here despite having the worlds worst oppressor of journalists. Either that or these people being professional journalists are acquainted with uses of words the ordinary person might not be.

Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

Monday, May 1, 2017

The Pack Tightens in the Race for Fake News

It was the perfect storm to excite the already overly excited liberal media and a segment of the U.S. population wholly opposed to Donald Trump’s every word and move. But there was one problem: It wasn’t true. 



On Sunday, several progressive media personalities and liberal Twitter users, even an NBC News correspondent and Raw Story, a lefty news site covered the fake story, falling for a false post claiming a new billboard advertising Trump Tower Manila had been erected and featured the Ivanka Trump, who now serves as a senior White House adviser. 
“Ivanka Trump hawks family’s new development in Philippines as dad invites strongman to White House.-  https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander.
The hubbub ensued when venture capitalist Peter Brack posted an image of the billboard to his Twitter account, tying the advertisement to Trump’s decision to invite controversial Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House. Brack wrote in the tweet that has garnered over 25,000 retweets, and has not been retracted.
“Assistant to POTUS models in an ad for POTUS’s new Tower in Manila.” - https://twitter.com/peterbrack  
The sign, however, is five years old. And according to a spokesperson for the Trump organization, the billboard was taken down years ago.

Jon Lovett, who worked as a speech writer for former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, tweeted: 
“The conflicts are unchecked because the GOP Congress has put deregulation and tax cuts for millionaires above all other considerations.”- https://twitter.com/jonlovett/ 
MSNBC correspondent affirmative action loud mouth Joy Reid sarcastically tweeted, 
“Well… the murderous autocrat [Duterte] did green light a Trump condo in his capitol, and Ivanka got a modeling gig out of it so…” - “Total coincidence I’m sure.” - https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid 
It's like taking candy from a baby. I guess when you have spent your entire reporting career pushing gossip from the Tweeter and Facebook and failing to verifying stories, you are going to be easy pickings.

Another stellar day for the media.  And a Pox Upon All Their Houses! 

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Media Still Doesn't Realize Who They're Dealing With


We've spent the last few days (and probably will most of this coming week) watching the usual suspects in the media as they attempted to knock down or explain away Donald Trump's wiretapping claims. What I suspect the media doesn't understand is Donald Trump is playing a different game, a game using their own rules against them.

Let's start with the key word "legally." They keep going over the ways Obama could have wiretapped Trump in a legal manner. Who said anything about legal? Donald J. Trump has never said that Obama wiretapped him legally. It's funny to see the way the useful idiots talking heads all blow past this point as if this dick Obama was beyond something like that.

One example was the little weasel from The Washington Post, E. J. Dionne: 
"It appears that Trump issued his wild tweet storm Saturday morning largely on the basis of reports in conspiracy-minded right-wing media. He signaled his lack of evidence first by reportedly pushing his White House staff to ransack sensitive intelligence information to find support for his claim. Then on Sunday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump wanted Congress to look into the matter and that the administration would offer no further comment. Trump has a problem either way. If he was not wiretapped, he invented a spectacularly false charge. And if a court ordered some sort of surveillance of him, on what grounds did it do so?" 
"Trump has a problem either way," Dionne says, working from DNC script as usual. He imagines only two possibilities: 1) Trump didn't get wiretapped at all, and  2) Trump got wiretapped legally, with "a court ordering some sort of surveillance of him."

Believe it or not, E. J. Dionne graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. But because he was working from script, he didn't consider the obvious third possibility. It's hard to believe that we will hear it bandied about only on right-wing talk shows:  3) Trump was wiretapped illegally, by a gang of "plumbers."

Earth to six- and seven-figure journalists: Donald J. Trump is playing a game it's fairly easy for him to win, at least within his own tribe. As a general matter, neither Barack Obama, nor anyone else, can prove that he didn't engage in a certain action. If Trump wants to claim that Obama sent in a gang of plumbers, no one will ever be able to prove that it didn't happen. For this reason, there's only one approach to take to claims of this type. You have to note that the accuser, in this case, Donald Trump, has offered zero evidence in support of his claim. Zero evidence; none at all.

You need to draw attention to that fact, and to very few others. But alas! In the hands of our under-skilled cable talkers, we've already seen Trump's wiretap claim end up seeming more credible.

The media pundits have peddled bullshit for many, many years. They've carried water for decades for very some shaky accusers. They're much more practiced at selling bullshit than at knocking it down. They have little experience at trying to ferret the truth. They're mainly skilled at reciting script, not at challenging demagoguery, on which their own engine runs. They're good on Q-ratings, makeup and clothes, but still not that, just as no one "ordered tax" in the famous old joke, Donald Trump hasn't said squat about "legal." 


Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

The Major Media Gets Punked...Again!

All those gatekeepers. All those editors. All those journalism awards on the wall. And still this little snot-nosed brat using a fake name and a Facebook page punked the Media into believing someone was actually paying people outragous amounts of money to protest the inauguration.  Tucker Carlson outed him -- and got a gigantic laugh out of it.
"There is no Fourth Estate. We do not have a free press. We have a pack of credentialed monkeys throwing their feces at America. I love that someone punked them. Again." - Don Surber