Recovering from the journalism crisis: Reporters need to learn to apologize

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Trump's VA Secretary Takes a Wrecking Ball to Reporter, Whips Out Her Article and Points to the Fake News

 

Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins delivered a masterclass on how to fight back against biased media, confronting a reporter directly over an article she wrote laced with plenty of rumors and innuendo.

Collins, in a conversation with Military.com reporter Patricia Kime on Tuesday, went directly at her over a report she filed regarding Elon Musk's DOGE team's access to the VA's computer systems.

The article is supported by terms such as "rumors began circulating" and "she had heard that."

The terms are more appropriate for a gossip session at the local barbershop but maybe not for a publication reporting on military and veteran affairs.

 

Collins literally pulled the article out of his pocket and began pointing out several instances in which the reporting aspect of the story had been a bit shoddy.  [...]

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/12/trumps-va-secretary-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-reporter-whips-out-her-article-and-points-to-the-fake-news-n2186570

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https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/

 

 

 

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CNN Airs Clips of Newsom Saying ‘Latinx’ After He Denied His Office Ever Used the Term

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-airs-clips-of-gavin-newsom-saying-latinx-after-he-denied-his-office-ever-used-the-term/

 

CNN going after Newsom? 🤨

 

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4 hours ago, Pooky said:

CNN Airs Clips of Newsom Saying ‘Latinx’ After He Denied His Office Ever Used the Term

CNN did this?  One would think that he'd be one of their default heroes for 2028.

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If you want to relish in the New York Slimes being eviscerated in great detail, read this!

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How The New York Times Is Killing America

 

When I was starting out as a Chicago City Hall reporter for that big metropolitan paper—when we could smoke in newsrooms on deadline, curse, tell jokes, laugh and wore jackets and ties to work—I had one rule.

I'd often discuss this rule with my political sources, elected officials, cops, city workers and others:

Lie to me just once, just once, and I'll burn you to the ground.  [...]
 

https://johnkassnews.com/how-ny-times-and-jacobin-friends-killed-america/

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On 3/23/2025 at 8:15 PM, TBoneTX said:

CNN did this?  One would think that he'd be one of their default heroes for 2028.

Could have something to do with perceiving his new podcast endeavor as a betrayal, when it's just an attempt at an early campaigning strategy.  No one ever claimed MSM was full of geniuses.

Edited March 26 by hplusj

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There is zero shame.

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60 Minutes lionizes Trump-hating attorney Marc Elias, mastermind of the Russia hoax
 

After an unprecedented on-air hissy fit last week over the forced exit of a longtime editor, 60 Minutes's Scott Pelley decided to go all in on the Trump-hate, using his on-air time to praise and promote Marc Elias, the architect of the Russia hoax scandal and probably the world's sleaziest lawyer.

 

According to Breitbart News's Joel Pollak:

CBS News' 60 Minutes portrayed Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias as a victim of President Donald Trump's supposed retaliation against law firms — without once mentioning Elias's sordid background.

 

CBS' Scott Pelley portrayed Elias as a hero, the only lawyer brave enough to speak out against a series of executive orders by Trump targeting large law firms that participated in, or hired, lawyers who opposed him.

Pelley neglected to mention that Elias was the architect of the Democrats' "Russia collusion" hoax in 2016; that he led the effort to change election laws in 2020; and that he has a long history of dirty political tricks.

 

Nor did Pelley mention that [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/60_minutes_lionizes_trump_hating_attorney_marc_elias_mastermind_of_the_russia_hoax.html

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This one certainly nails the culpability of the lamestream media.

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Jake Tapper Uncovers Startling Evidence That Biden’s Decline Was Covered Up By Jake Tapper

 

U.S. — In a shocking exposé, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has revealed new evidence that Biden's mental and physical decline was covered up for years by Jake Tapper.

"These allegations regarding Jake Tapper are disturbing," said Jake Tapper.  "The idea that someone would use their power as a journalist to lie and withhold essential information from the American public is beyond the pale.  This Jake Tapper guy, whoever he is, should be ashamed of himself."  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/jake-tapper-uncovers-startling-evidence-that-bidens-decline-was-covered-up-by-jake-tapper

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This is an eloquent article.

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Terry Moran's rant is just another case of media's mask coming off

The masks are coming off when it comes to (now-formerly) prominent members of our media.

Exhibit A is Terry Moran, the recently axed senior national correspondent for ABC News.  Moran has always been a partisan and a petty one at that. vBut what he wrote regarding Trump deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was as unhinged as your average Keith Olbermann or Lincoln Project post.  [...]

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3439956/terry-moran-rant-liberal-media-mask-coming-off/

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On 3/13/2025 at 12:46 AM, TBoneTX said:

Trump's VA Secretary Takes a Wrecking Ball to Reporter, Whips Out Her Article and Points to the Fake News

 

Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins delivered a masterclass on how to fight back against biased media, confronting a reporter directly over an article she wrote laced with plenty of rumors and innuendo.

Collins, in a conversation with Military.com reporter Patricia Kime on Tuesday, went directly at her over a report she filed regarding Elon Musk's DOGE team's access to the VA's computer systems.

The article is supported by terms such as "rumors began circulating" and "she had heard that."

The terms are more appropriate for a gossip session at the local barbershop but maybe not for a publication reporting on military and veteran affairs.

 

Collins literally pulled the article out of his pocket and began pointing out several instances in which the reporting aspect of the story had been a bit shoddy.  [...]

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/12/trumps-va-secretary-takes-a-wrecking-ball-to-reporter-whips-out-her-article-and-points-to-the-fake-news-n2186570

Bill Maher called him out hard.