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2022-01-02 -Great Cultural Revolution

AP identifies Tucker Carlson as the 'main driver' of Jan 6 misinformation

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-02 05:56|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 The AP wouldn’t know the Truth if it smacked them upside the head.

Posted by Croque Fliting8030 2022-01-02 07:53|| 2022-01-02 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 AP the most corrupt news media on par with CNN. I pay no attention to these propaganda networks. NPR and BBC right up there with them. They parade about naked and when told refuse to agree and continue on as the fools they are.

Posted by Dale 2022-01-02 08:00|| 2022-01-02 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 ...has spread the idea that the FBI orchestrated ~~Whitey Bulger's move to a West Virginia jail and his subsequent killing~~ the riot.

This notion doesn't take a great deal of imagination when reviewed in light of past actions, only logic and reason, attributes on short supply at the AP and other leftist 'news' outlets.

Posted by Raj 2022-01-02 08:22|| 2022-01-02 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 AP "knows the truth." The "truth" however, is not wat their handlers are paying them to disseminate.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-02 08:37|| 2022-01-02 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 AP "knows the truth." The "truth" however, is not wat their handlers are paying them to disseminate.

I targeted a local outlet that was on a leftist tilt once making a list of every local business that was running ads with them. I called each local business, found the individuals who placed ads and had a conversation with them about the garbage slant the local outlet wrote their stories with and suggested they never longer advertise there. I even gave them suggestions where else to advertise locally. In one week the local media outlet completely changed to tune to a conservative perspective.

It worked!

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-02 09:43|| 2022-01-02 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 When I was a reporter in the early 1980's, I worked at an ostensibly "conservative" small-town newspaper owned by a fairly high-profile conservative millionaire who was a mover and shaker in conservative politics at the national level. In spite of that, the majority of the people I worked with (especially people hired straight out of school, like myself) were either actively liberal or simply unformed and uninformed. Let there be no doubt that the organizational aspiration was to join all the "kewel kids" on the left side. It was the work of a staff of veteran editors who were much more professional newspaper people than political idealogues to keep things on the straight and narrow. I am not doubting #5's account at all, but it is definitely the exception. Here, in an age where all the cable news outlets (except FauxNews) are cratering viewership, the drool cups are still firmly in place.
At the local level, you are probably better off getting your local news from the nearest cracker barrel (not the restaurant chain) than from your local fishwrap or rah-rah small wattage radio station. Truly independent local bloggers are a help, but realistically, their reach is miniscule.

In the end, "Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you read or hear," remains great advice.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-02 09:57|| 2022-01-02 09:57|| Front Page Top

/\ The 'spit and whittle club.' When I was a kid, this was gone of the best places to get the news.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-02 10:12|| 2022-01-02 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 I still have a friend back in the town where I grew up who is plugged in every way he can figure out to be. If I want to know the backstory on anything that happens there, he's my go-to. Of course, the skinny is usually prefaced by "Now, you didn't hear this from me," and peppered with "this is interesting, but don't repeat it."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-02 10:20|| 2022-01-02 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Has the FBI ever stopped a plot they didn't start themselves?

The FBI agent from 2020’s Whitmer Michigan kidnapping plot is an abuser who forced his wife to a sex party and beat her

Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-02 12:06|| 2022-01-02 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the FBI's hiring model went from "squarest of the square" in the 20s through 50s and morphed into "anyone who would make Philth Donahue or Jerry Springer blush," after that.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-02 12:09|| 2022-01-02 12:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Arse Pravda?

Posted by Woodrow 2022-01-02 23:42|| 2022-01-02 23:42|| Front Page Top

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