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Michael Shellenberger

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Journalists rushed to report that Trump’s handling of classified documents was far worse than Biden’s. Now that that they have egg on their faces, they’re insisting that their reporting was nuanced. From knee-jerk partisan propaganda to gas-lighting without taking a breath.

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Journalists labored to contextualize a matter made all the more complex by the shadow of former president Donald Trump’s own ongoing classified-documents scandal. And they gird against partisan criticism that they are going too hard or soft on the story. wapo.st/3H3rEI5

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Having “reported” that Trump had committed some terrible crime, the discovery that Biden had done the same thing gave “reporters” a serious case of cognitive dissonance. To relieve the stress, they wrote factually incorrect “explainers” to spin away the differences.

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At first they said: Biden fessed up right away; he only had a few Top Secret documents; the VP can declassify them. Now they admit: we don’t know how many Top Secret documents he had; there’s no evidence he ever declassified them; and he didn’t fess up until he was caught.

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Two-thirds of reporters say news media companies do a “very or somewhat good job” reporting the news. But just 29% of U.S. adults say they have “a fair amount of trust” in journalists: 44% have “little to none”

pewresearch.org

Journalists Sense Turmoil in Their Industry Amid Continued Passion for Their Work

A survey of U.S.-based journalists finds 77% would choose their career all over again, though 57% are highly concerned about future restrictions on press freedom.

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“Americans are significantly more likely to say the news media is doing a bad job than a good job…While 65% of journalists say news organizations do a very or somewhat good job reporting the news accurately, 35% of the public agrees; 43% say journalists do a bad job of this”

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Michael Shellenberger

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When they announced that Biden had classified documents, millions of people thought, “Now the media are going to tell us that this is totally different from what Trump did.” Same with the weather/climate. Their propaganda is so relentless, and so one-sided, that it’s predictable.

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Michael Shellenberger

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The news media has become 100% “Dog bites man” coverage. What’s more, when somebody reports “Man bites dog,” the entire press corps is there to dismiss it as “Russian disinformation” or “Kremlin talking points” or the like.

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Michael Shellenberger

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After my Twitter Files story came out, CNN claimed to have “debunked” it by noting that FBI had never “ordered” Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. But I never claimed it had. CNN’s “debunking” was itself disinformation

leightonwoodhouse.substack.com

In Response to the Twitter Files, Establishment Media Rushes to Defend the FBI

The Hunter Biden laptop story shows the extent to which the corporate media has become the propaganda arm of the state

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Michael Shellenberger

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During Watergate “Washington Post and The New York Times competed fiercely for the scoops. Today, the establishment media, after having maligned the laptop story when it came out in 2020, is stubbornly ignoring evidence of a potential FBI conspiracy to influence an election.”

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“There’s no precedent for what’s going on unless you go back to Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime censorship. Joe McCarthy would have loved to have that kind of control.”

public.substack.com

Former Top CIA Analyst Condemns FBI For Censorship & Misinformation

Watch now (6 min) | "Joe McCarthy would have loved to have that kind of control," says Martin Gurri, author of the seminal 2018 book, "The Revolt of Public," about government influence over Twitter.

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Michael Shellenberger

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Oh, and they just discovered yet more documents. But have no fear! The media are on their way with more narrative “explainers” to deal with all of these pesky facts!

Additional Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home, White House Says

The revelation came as the White House defended its public statements about the extent of the documents that remained in Mr. Biden’s possession.

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Public: Coverage Of Biden & Trump's Mishandled Classified Documents Reveals Media Double Standard public.substack.com/p/coverage-of-

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Chuck Schumer on Jan. 4th, 2017: “You take on the intelligence community and they have six ways till Sunday to get back at you.”

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According to some pretty unreliable people but yes probably

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Its the most important problem because if we dont actually know whats going on we dont know what the real problems are.

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We would never be in this situation if Joseph McCarthy indeed had this kind of control... In retrospect, turns out McCarthy was right.

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Meanwhile the Dems are trying to outlaw fire. Can’t make this up.

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there r numerous examples, including MLK --very few people know the truths exposed at the 1999 King trial, look at what happened to the 2 journos covering it. US hid reporting & video. Even the King's removed transcript from their site! Establishment won propaganda war long ago

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Today's media really doesn't seem different from ages gone by. Heck, numerous similarities between how Yoel Roth appears to have been cultivated & run by DOJ-FBI-IC & how FBI AD Mark Felt aka Deep Throat ran Carl Bernstein. A very old, predictable pattern. #TwitterFiles