We have been discussing the open bias shown by the media in the last four years. It is not clear if we can regain the ground lost for journalism as even journalism professors call for the rejection of objectivity in favor of advocacy. This has included shielding Joe Biden from any challenging questions during the recent election. That includes the news blackout on reporting on the Hunter Biden scandal, the subject of my column today in the Hill. CNN’s April Ryan personifies this trend. Even as the media is facing widespread criticism for burying the Hunter Biden story (and is now doing the same with the Swalwell scandal), Ryan lashed out at confidential sources responsible for leaking a recording of Joe Biden making embarrassing comments about the “defund the police” movement. Ryan is demanding to know who is responsible for allowing the embarrassing comments to be made public despite her past enthusiastic discussion of such leaks against President Donald Trump.
President-elect Biden lashed out at the “defund the police” movement this week in a meeting with civil rights leaders, stating “That’s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police. We’re not.” The recording was obtained by The Intercept.
What I felt was most notable was that Biden said that he would not share his plans for reforming the police until after the Georgia runoff to avoid any backlash from voters. While NBC paraphrased the quote as Biden warning “about getting ‘too far ahead of ourselves’ with critical Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5,” it was more direct and disturbing than that.
Biden stated: “Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before Jan. 5th, because that’s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police.”
It was precisely what Biden did with regard to packing the Supreme Court. He expressly refused to tell voters whether he would support such a plan because it might cost him votes. The key issue in the Georgia runoff is whether, once in control of the Senate, the Democrats would move forward on what are viewed as radical proposals, including sweeping police reforms. Biden’s answer again is not to tell the voters what they have planned.
As I mentioned yesterday, I am not sure when it became acceptable for politicians to expressly refuse to state their intentions and policies until after they are elected. Biden has now twice said that he does not want voters to know in case it might cost votes.
There are a host of issues raised by Biden’s remarks, but Ryan lashed out at the use of such tapes, which are standard in journalism;
“I asked an incoming White House source was the meeting contentious with civil rights leader and @JoeBiden and the answer was ‘no’. A rights leader at the meeting says @JoeBiden was passionate,” Ryan tweeted. “The question is who taped this meeting and why? What is the agenda?”
Ryan then dug herself deeper in responding to what appears a sarcastic response from Vice journalist Edward Ongweso Jr. Orgweso remarked that
“It is irresponsible and sets a dangerous precedent for journalists covering the incoming administration to be able to use secretly recorded conversations in their stories. To parse out Biden’s thoughts and anticipate his policy commitments, you must go through proper channels.
The White House Press Secretary, the spokespeople for the President and Vice President, senior officials (without attribution), and the President’s public statements are all designated and responsible sources for information about the President’s thoughts and intentions.”
Revealing a contradiction between Biden’s private thoughts and public statements is dangerous because it erodes public trust in the President, the Office, and the media itself,
He was trying to state why Ryan’s view of journalism was absurd but, in a telling moment, Ryan agreed with that interpretation of journalism that would make a Stalinist propagandist blush. She responded “You hit the nail in the head! This is not good at all.”
Ongweso Jr. simply responded “Folks… I can’t.”
The fact is that Ryan was just stating what has become the approach of many in the media. As we recently discussed, we are moving dangerously close to a de facto state media with the cooperation of Big Tech companies. Ryan believes that it is outrageous to rely on unapproved material if it is critical of Joe Biden (despite her use of such material for the last four years against Trump).
This week, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan was criticized for wearing a sweater stating “Facts First” as CNN was being criticized for its suppression of the Hunter Biden story and its lack of coverage of the Swalwell scandal. Now one of its most prominent CNN analysts is declaring that journalists should not rely on unapproved material on Biden and that the confidential source for another media organization should be uncovered. CNN has not expressed any disagreement with Ryan’s view of the new journalism.
It is precisely the realization of the call for journalists to dispense with objectivity in favor of open advocacy. What is clear is that, once reporters like Ryan dispense with objectivity, they also substitute it with open hypocrisy.
Apparently, some imbeciles think Professor Turley is never right. When sentient robots finally wipe us out, their best explanation will be that the human race was infected with trolls.
SIMILARITIES ARE REVEALED AS CHINA FURTHERS ITS U.S. TAKEOVER?
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Correction: Chinese sentient robots.
“China Furthers Its Hong Kong Takeover – Now Politicians Who Spoke Out About China Are Targeted and Arrested”
China imposes its will on Hong Kong. Over the past year China has tortured the people of the friendly city – country of Hong Kong. This once great British colony was turned over to the Chinese in the late 1990’s. Despite China’s promises to not interfere with the country for 50 years, China has slowly infiltrated the government and culture. Last year protesters of the China takeover were active in the streets but then COVID hit and the city has been shut down for nearly a year. Small businesses are in ruins and the world class airport which once bragged about being the best in the world with 250,000 travelers a day is down to only a few thousand. It’s as if China is punishing Hong Kong for being out of line. Nothing happens in Hong Kong any more without China’s permission. In June China instituted a law to arrest and imprison any member of the country who speaks out against China and they are moving forward with the implementation of that law. Numerous activists have gone missing after being shipped to China.
CBS reports on the recent arrests in Hong Kong. (Note the area known as Hong Kong was its own country but now, in compliance with the China narrative, CBS labels Hong Kong the “semi-autonomous Chinese city”):
Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested eight pro-democracy activists over their role in an unauthorized protest last summer, widening a crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The arrests, which included several former lawmakers, are tied to a July 1 demonstration in which thousands defied a protest ban and rallied on the streets against a national security law imposed on the city by China‘s central government in Beijing the day before.
Former pro-democracy lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Eddie Chu and Leung Kwok Hung were arrested at their homes on charges related to organizing and participating in the protest, according to Facebook posts on their respective pages.
– Joe Hoft
Turley has been slowly shifting right.
That would be because the left is increasingly bat$h!t.
This can be observed many places.
Nearly the entire Intellectual Dark Web is leading left scholars who have been red pilled by the insantiy of the left.
You need not agree with conservatives on everything.
You need not agree with then on anything.
The left is still far crazier and far more dangerous.
we spent 4 years ranting that Trump was a dangerous authoritarian.
So what exactly is it that he did that was so authoritarian ?
Did he use the IRS to target political enemies – like Obama/Biden ?
Did he use DOJ/FBI to target political enemies – like Obama/Biden ?
Did he sell guns to mexican drug dealers – like Obama/Biden ?
Did he use the NSA/CIA to spy on Senators – like Obama/Biden ?
Did he sell his office for the profit of friends and family – Like Clinton.Obama.Biden ?
Did he spy on journalists – like Obama/Biden ?
What is the great danger of Trump ? That he might actually build a southern wall ?
That he might actually get us out of the mess in the mideast ?
That he might actually bring peace to the mideast ?
That he might actually get Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense ?
I remember April crying out how unfair it was that the Presidents phone call to the Ukranian President was confidential and those who let it out to the public should be exposed. Thankyou April for your consistent adherence to journalistic integrity.
None of JT’s matters as we are already up 1.2 °C and headed for thrice that:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/where-we-stand-on-climate
Turley writes: “We have been discussing the open bias shown by the media in the last four years. It is not clear if we can regain the ground lost for journalism…”
US leaders on the right and left are considering potential media bias in the coverage of US and Chinese responses to climate change; how much strategic ground the US has gained under President Trump; and how to move forward.
The Chinese Mission to the UN tweets: “At Climate Ambition Summit, President Xi Jinping made new proposals for global climate governance: close ranks & make new advances that feature win-win cooperation; raise ambition & foster new architecture involving all; boost confidence & pursue new approach towards green recovery.”
President-elect Biden tweets: “Five years ago today, the world gathered to adopt the Paris Agreement on climate change. And in 39 days, the United States is going to rejoin it. We’re going to rally the world to push our progress further and faster and tackle the climate crisis head-on.”
Biden has pledged to put the US on track to Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050.
Xi Jinping has pledged to get China there by 2060.
Ah so many lies , so much doublespeak…so many bought out political bags of sh*t. The media loves it , chicoms fund it , and we as once free people will pay for it dearly…if we don’t stop this insane socialist takeover deceit already.
Professor Ian Hutchinson is no fear monger; he is a physicist, plasma scientist, nuclear engineer and currently Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering @ MIT. List the name and title of anyone with more or equal authority on the subject of global warming that contradicts Ian.
Ian states that this is what’s in store for our children and grandchildren. To level or stop the growth of global warming would take the human race reverting to 1% of its current carbon foot print, IOW a 99% reduction, which requires returning to a “pre-Columbian” (Columbus) lifestyle, or lacking that, require the death of 2B human beings (I suppose maybe a mix of both is an option but don’t know). He adds that there no technology breakthrough prevents this eventual outcome, and to hope so or suspect so is simply childish, immature, ain’t gonna happen.
Serious Q: is Ian wrong? Who says otherwise? Does anyone disagree with Ian’s level of authority on the subject.
I used to believe global warming was not a big problem. Now I see that apparently the global warning crowd is soft pedaling the truth and lying about how serious is the problem to the level of criminal negligence. Why are they soft pedaling the future gloom? What’s in it for them?
“Serious Q: is Ian wrong? Who says otherwise? Does anyone disagree with Ian’s level of authority on the subject.”
Serious A: Richard Lindzen, also of MIT’s faculty, who is in a fact a noted climate scientist and is skeptical of doomsday scenarios. Hutchinson is respected, but not a climate-science authority. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle of this debate.
I hope to God you are right.
Lindzen is a climate scientist – more so than most of the so called “experts” he is just much older than most of them.
Regardless the fundimental problems with climate science are statistical.
Princess:
An atmospheric methane concentration of 1600 ppb by 2020 would have been a confidence-building Kyoto II successor to the Montreal Protocol. How can Republicans not ask whether the Paris Agreement, which does not require Senate ratification and may not set out a realistic and verifiable new 2030 atmospheric methane emissions goal for China, is CCP-backed UN greenwash?
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/rising-methane-emissions-could-derail-the-paris-agreement
Why would any sane person wish to get there EVER ?
The current rate of Warming is the same as it has been for 250 years.
The future is actually as likely to be colder as warmer.
CO2 is not a pollutant – it is plantfood.
The world is greener than it has been in human record.
It is unlikely that we will be 1C warmer by 2100 – even if the current trends continue.
That will have near zero negative impacts and many positive impacts globally.
Should we actually see this mythical 4C increase – the earth would be BETTER.
Further Plank’s law, Arrenhius’s law – and thermodynamics tell us that the warmer the earth gets the slower it will warm.
Contra left wing nuts actual unlimited positive feedbacks in nature are very rare – they are called explosions and they are unstable.
Climate like all of nature is self regulating – it does NOT maintain a constant temperature, but all of the criteria necescary to sustain life MUST remain within the narrow window where life is possible – for billions of years – otherwise life would not exist.
Asteroids have struck the earth – killing most life – and yet the earth returned to norms and life survived and thrived.
If the World can handled huge asteroid collusions – a few pesky humans putting out a pitance in CO2 is nothing.
This is just an example of the idiocy of the left – constantly trying to make good things bad.
David, not a climate scientist, but like you, I follow this debate closely. I don’t listen to the New Yorker. The NY would have us all believe there are two sides to the debate: deniers and scientists. There are actually four sides: deniers, skeptics, proponents, and alarmists. The NY falls into the latter category. The real science is occurring between skeptics and proponents. Skeptics admit there is anthropogenic global warming, and proponents admit the climate models (and media) have been exaggerating the threat for the last 20 years. There is a growing consensus between the proponents and skeptics, but it’s happening slowly. It’s nobody’s fault that climate science and computer modeling are still very new and complicated subjects. Don’t get your science from the media. That’s the domain of shameless deniers and alarmists, each with their own hidden agendas.
There are about two “denierss” in the entire planet.
There is no “consensus” forming.
What is occuring is left wing nut warmist science is FAILING.
BTW this is not exclusive to climate.
What is actually happening is that the politiization of science as a consequence of the shift away from testing sceintific thesies by reproducing them to peer aka crony review is leaving science in myriads of areas completely out of touch with reality.
A project that attempted to verify major published scientific papers – both current and over decades has found that 1/3 of all published papers are completely not reproduceable. 1/3 are reproduceable – but without any statistical significance, and only about 1/3 actually produce meaningful results. This is true of anthropology, psychology, sociology, environment, it is even true is physics.
But it is especially true in non-experimental sciences where conclusions are reached by performing statistical regressions on real world data – Climate Science being an example.
Basic science has several modern problems:
First left wing politics has pervaded everything – even studying things that might produce results that annoy the left is not permitted.
Next crony politics pervades everything – this is common in everything but it has become worse in science with the shift from testing by reproduction to peer review.
All is made worse by the failure of our schools. How do you expect science to produce trustworthy results when few of us can add anymore, and most scientists even in hard sciences like physics have no idea what the Pvalue of a dataset means.
Not this nonsense again.
The rate of warming for the past 200 years has been 0.11C/decade – the deviation for the average since 1979 is 0.53C – that is DOWN from a peak earlier this year.
That will inevitably DECLINE shortly as we are already into a La Nina which will drive everything down through April.
Reality vs, warmists.
https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/christy_dec8.jpg
Why should you be believed about anything ?
What should I trust ? Faux leftist science ? Experts ? Left Wing nut politicians ?
Or reality ?
Can you name a single malthusian prognostication ever that has been true ?
Horses and candles!
LOL
The American Deep Deep State Communist Party, through its MSM and SMP segments, aggressively promotes miscegenation as national indoctrination. Beginning in the Year of Our Chinese Communist COVID, 2020, almost every TV commercial began featuring mixed race families. American couples are rarely presented. An alien watching would conclude that America is now Africa and Americans are the minority by a considerable margin. The control of the American Deep Deep State Communist Party is pervasive, comprehensive and utterly clandestine.
After the criminally corrupted, tampered-with, stolen and irredeemably illegitimate 2020 election, the American Deep Deep State Communist Party will soon ensconce the mixed race Harris couple in the office of the president as its crowing achievement (imagine, the ineligible spawn of foreign citizens, who couldn’t win a vote or raise a dollar in the primaries, in control of the American nuclear launch codes).
“Fundamentally transforming…” America is largely complete. The parasites have come, the parasites have seen, the parasites have conquered. And not a peep from Americans. It is better to give than to receive, right? “America First” becomes “America Last,” Americans go extinct and the world enters the era of yellow supremacy.
P.S. Is there compulsory Chinese/African miscegenation in China?
Hey Zues. Don’t be afraid.
Take your first son back to Scranton.
Remember…what’s ever under your skin..
You can make it…better!
I have an Irish Setter who stands up on his hind legs in the morning and prays to Dog and to Hey Zues.
He informs me that fake news is controlled from Hell.
I stopped after reading CNN….not a valid source of anything useful in the USA’s Constitutional Republic and CNN itself having no standing under th First Amendment.
More leftist hypocracy.
It is the job of the press to hold our leaders to account – not advance personal political goals.
If you had your own honeypot you would understand these things
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Basically, Biden believes that the people do not have a right to know his true intentions. Don’t you understand, the nation belongs to him and you have no right to know what he plans to do? Don’t you understand, he has been appointed to his position by the all mighty gods not your vote? How dare you question one so ordained.