Abby (daughter # 4) and Brian , parents of Blake
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Is the mass media out of control?
The Associated Press’ progressive bias is out of control
Media bias may be in the eye of the beholder, but the ability of journalists to slant the news can be demonstrated in ways that are both obvious and subtle.
Blatant bias was seen in the competing presidential town halls last week. In one, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie decided the job of the moderator was to debate, attack and interrupt President Trump. In the other, ABC’s moderator George Stephanopoulos tossed softballs to Joe Biden. That’s the kind of unfairness we’re used to with respect to coverage of Trump and Republicans.
But a more insidious form of media bias comes in the use of language and the way journalists use terms designed to favor the left. All you need to do to see examples of this is read the bible of American journalism: the AP Stylebook.
Published by The Associated Press, the Stylebook has, since its first edition came out in 1953, become the leading authority on grammar and style by reporters and editors as well a corporate-communication reference guide. Its updates about how to use words have even more influence on the way Americans speak and write than dictionaries.
While it may have started out as an objective source, as with so much of the media it serves, the Stylebook has long since discarded fairness for a liberal bias that betrays the goal of its authors and tilts the playing field against conservatives.
This was on display last month when the Stylebook weighed in to re-educate Americans about the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests that resulted in violent riots and looting in hundreds of American cities since the death of George Floyd.
Since speaking the unvarnished truth necessarily paints these events in an unflattering light, the AP advised journalists to stop calling them “riots” and to use the more neutral “protests” instead — even if they were violent. Describing the pillaging of businesses by rioters as “looting” was denounced as racist.
When writing about people burning neighborhoods, looting stores and attacking police, we should not talk about what they were actually doing. Instead press outlets should focus their coverage on the “underlying grievance” of those engaging in “rioting and property destruction.”
Doing their jobs and reporting what was happening was, the Stylebook claimed, to echo the practices of America’s racist past. In other words, reporters should believe those who are trying to portray a nation that has long since moved on from its troubled past as irredeemably racist rather than their lying eyes and ears.
The AP also wants the press to avoid using terms like “abolish” or “defunding” the police since it considers them inflammatory and instead describe these proposals in more detail. The goal there is to avoid the truth about a movement steeped in dangerous radical anti-police ideas.
Just as obvious was a recent AP article about the Democrats’ threats to pack the Supreme Court with liberals if they gain control of Congress next year. The article described one Democrat’s support for this idea as an effort to “depoliticize” the court.
That’s a partisan redefinition of a term that has been universally employed for decades, and it’s meant to avoid discussion of how the Democrats wish to blow up the judicial system.
The AP’s Orwellian “newspeak” isn’t new. For example, over the last decade, it forbade the use of “illegal immigrant” in favor of “undocumented,” a word that blurs the fact that some immigrants have entered the country illegally. It banished “Islamist” from the vocabulary of those covering the threat from radical Islam and said “terrorists” should be (misleadingly) referred to as “militants.”
Honest public discourse depends on calling things by their right names. But much like the current trend at many mainstream publications and broadcast outlets, where journalists think their job is now to fight Trump and conservatives rather than just report the facts and let the people decide, the AP Stylebook has become an eager recruit for left-wing Democratic activism and the anti-Trump “resistance.”
Those in the press who want to preserve an honorable profession necessary to a working democracy need to start ignoring the AP Stylebook and stick to truthful definitions.
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Trump releases entire Leslie Stahl interview.
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Third Degree Murder Charge Against Officer Involved in Death of George Floyd Has Been Dropped
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Fifty million , hopefully American citizens eligible to vote, have already done so and many may well have voted for a security risk for president.
Obviously, the mass media are doing everything they can to shield Biden who continues to avoid answering questions about his and Hunter's potential involvement with foreign government entities and persons paying them money for access.
Perhaps, because the FBI has been involved in a money laundering scheme investigation possibly linked to Hunter, this may be why they have revealed nothing since receiving his hard drive almost a year ago. Or, perhaps, the FBI remains a compromised and corrupt organization at the top of the senior management level. Time will tell should Trump be re-elected but we may never know if Biden is elected.
One thing is increasingly evident, no matter who becomes president, the mass media has failed ethically to do their ombudsmen job of investigation. Why? Because of bias and their desire to protect Biden so their choice for president is elected.
What separates a free people from corruption is a free and honest press. That has been an oxymoronic link for decades.
From the day Trump and Melania came down the escalator the long knives have been unsheathed and when he became the Republican nominee the skullduggery began in earnest then, when he beat the anointed queen, his destruction, many of his associates and Administration personnel and his entire time as president has been targeted for failure.
Trump contributed to his own fall from grace because of his combative personality, his willingness to respond to accusations and fake news by not laying down, for which I admire him, but when you have the mass media against you the skiing is all up hill.
I have always been willing, and even able, to separate Trump's persona from his many accomplishments and understood his election was attributed to a nation of fed up, frustrated "deplorables" who were disgusted with a corrupt and feckless candidate named Hillary and politicians and Silicon Billionaires who had enriched themselves at the expense of America's middle class.
I also, intuitively, knew the minute Trump stated he was about draining the swamp he was in for a long and difficult time but even cynical me never fathomed the length to which corrupt Democrats would sink to demonstrate their contempt for America.
Trump's impeachment was predicated on an alleged Ukrainian conversation which, it seems, the Biden family was actually engaged in and any Russian collusion was related to Hillary's skullduggery.
It was Joe Biden, who was stupid enough to brag, in a video, how he got the Ukraine investigator of his son fired before re-leasing $one billion in U.S aid with his bragging 'The Son of A Bitch was fired.' Even "Pop' can't deny this blatant self-indictment because it is on a real video.
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https://www.jewishpress.com/
Finally:
Trump was IMPEACHED for Asking about Biden-Burisma Corruption Issues in Ukraine!  Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on "The Larry O'Connor Show" (WMAL) to discuss his NEWEST book, "A Republic Under Assault," the Clinton email scandal, the state of the FBI, and much more! President Trump Was Impeached to Protect Hillary Clinton & Joe Biden from Corruption Scandals!  Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” for a panel discussion with along with John Solomon and Michael Flynn's lead attorney Sidney Powell to discuss Biden's Russian disinformation claims. Tom Fitton on C-SPAN: Illicit Targeting of Trump by Obama FBI, Voter Fraud, & MORE!  Via C-SPAN: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton talked about the Senate Republicans' and Trump administration’s review of the 2016 FBI Russia probe. |
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One thing I give Biden over Trump, he is a better, slicker and craftier debater. Having spent 60% of his life in D.C. and Congress Biden has learned how to debate, how to throw out meaningless figures and to turn the argument back on his opponent through evasion.
Trump is a doer and does not know how to succinctly list accomplishments that make his case. He is all over the place and, in my opinion, less effective. Add to this the bias he must endure from moderators who program their questions from informing into "gotcha" types and the poor fella becomes a pin cushion.
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