White House issues marching orders to media outlets

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“White House sends letter to news execs urging outlets to ‘ramp up’ scrutiny of GOP’s Biden impeachment inquiry ‘based on lies’”

Marching orders given; marching orders gladly recieved! Oliver Darcy at CNN dutifully reports on the White House issuing instructions to media and proceeds to follow those instructions in the very same article without even a hint of irony or self awareness. It must be read to be believed:


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Didn't they do the same thing to Facebook and Twitter?

Or is that the FBI I am thinking of?
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When the press is meant to hold power accountable, it is generally understood to mean power which is not pro Democrat. That goes for corporations, unions, and the DNC.
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You can't have propaganda without the brownshirts to keep the critics in line.
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the White House is asking news outlets to report on Republicans’ bogus impeachment inquiry which is based on lies and innuendo. What is your objection to that?
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You can't have propaganda without the brownshirts to keep the critics in line.
Only morons would equate the FBI to Hitler’s borownshirts. Imagine a moron doing that even though they always complain when people make reference to Hitler.

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I can imagine the WH memo: Could you please look into this: it would be a shame if something were to happen to your FCC regulations this year...
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“And in the modern media environment, where every day liars and hucksters peddle disinformation and lies everywhere from Facebook to Fox, process stories that fail to unpack the illegitimacy of the claims on which House Republicans are basing all their actions only serve to generate confusion, put false premises in people’s feeds, and obscure the truth,” Sams added.“

Sounds reasonable to reasonable people. But Republicans and Libertarians aren’t reasonable 
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Imagine the same situation with the party affiliations switched around.

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Imagine media bowing to government requests on how they do their job. Oh, wait; you don’t have to.
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At least we now have some idea how much the "free" press costs.
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Imagine the same situation with the party affiliations switched around.
In the previous administration we saw prime time cable news anchors appearing on stage with the president at his rallies, one of those anchors was known to have nightly conversations with the president discussing White House strategy.

I fail to see what you’re pointing to here that we didn’t see ten fold in the previous administration which you didn’t seem to have any issue with.

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Your fallacy of choice here is the ad hominem tu quoque. Didn’t see that one coming! Do you see CNN and Fox in a similar light? Yeah, I didn’t think so…

Also, you confuse pundits with news anchors.
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Do you see CNN and Fox in a similar light? Yeah, I didn’t think so…

You should only worship leftist Billionaire media, because they are the ones that can exploit the poor in a humane way...
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Left leaning media tends to be unbiased and objective because reality itself is left leaning.

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reality itself is left leaning...
Well!
Someone had better tell Eritrea, North Korea, Afghanistan, Yemen, Belarus, Syria, Turkmenistan, People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Bahrain, Equatorial Guinea, Nicaragua, South Sudan, Cambodia, Chad, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Burundi, Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Myanmar, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Laos, Russia, Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Guinea, Turkey, Bangladesh, Egypt, Rwanda, Djibouti, Iran, Cameroon, Comoros, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Oman, Palestine, Algeria, Libya, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Mauritania, Thailand, Mali, Zimbabwe, Angola, Togo, Hong Kong, Gabon, Haiti, Uganda, El Salvador, Iraq, Pakistan, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Serbia, Jordan, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Benin, Philippines, Lebanon, Malaysia, Zambia, Tanzania, Ukraine, Guatemala, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guinea-Bissau, India, Hungary, Guyana, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Niger, Kenya, Albania, The Gambia, Poland, Sierra Leone, Paraguay, Indonesia, Maldives, Tunisia, Liberia, Mauritius, Nepal, Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Solomon Islands, Burkina Faso, Bhutan, Botswana, East Timor, Georgia, Mongolia, Lesotho, Brazil, Namibia, Malawi, Bulgaria, Senegal, Armenia, Panama, Ghana, Seychelles, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Slovenia, Moldova, Croatia, Malta, Romania, Suriname, Israel, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Vanuatu, Greece, Barbados, Cyprus, Jamaica, Taiwan, Czech Republic, and Latvia that they are living in an alternate dimension then.
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Colombia has a socialist president now, but I digress…

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Yes,
Most Conservative Countries in the World
1. Eritrea – 0.01
2. North Korea – 0.015
3. Afghanistan – 0.021
4. Yemen – 0.033
5. Belarus – 0.039
6. Syria – 0.04
7. Turkmenistan – 0.042
8. China – 0.044
9. Saudi Arabia – 0.044
10. Tajikistan – 0.047

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Proof more illegal immigration is required to shift America back to reality.
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shift America back to reality.
I dont think America can get back to reality. At least not in case of MAGA citizens.

Its the strongest country and has largest number of migrants in the world, but that at the same time has MAGA who think that migrants are very bad.

Eh, MAGA...
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It also has the largest number of illegal migrants. Most of the world is saying "hmmm, might not be such a great idea"

NK will save America from both the Marxists and the MAGA after the illegal migrants transform America.
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It also has the largest number of illegal migrants.
What Would Jesus Do?   I'm just kidding, I'm an Atheist like Trump.
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Also, you confuse pundits with news anchors.
So the FOX News prime time line up is all pundits. But they call themselves News and their viewers think they are getting news, but they’re not, right?

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Do you know the difference between a pundit/opinion commentator and a news anchor? In another thread you did, so I don’t know why you’re losing the plot now other than your partisan blinders. This is all part of a tu quoque fallacy in any case…

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This is all part of a tu quoque fallacy in any case…
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In the previous administration we saw prime time cable news anchors appearing on stage with the president at his rallies, one of those anchors was known to have nightly conversations with the president discussing White House strategy.

I fail to see what you’re pointing to here that we didn’t see ten fold in the previous administration which you didn’t seem to have any issue with.
Your fallacy of choice here is the ad hominem tu quoque. Didn’t see that one coming! Do you see CNN and Fox in a similar light? Yeah, I didn’t think so…
Ad hominem? Seriously? Feel free to enlighten me on where that was committed.

Tu Quoque would have been committed if I were claiming right wing media did the same thing as your example which makes this legitimate. That’s not what I did. I pointed out how what they did during the Trump years was 10x worse and yet you seem to have no issue with it. In other words, you’re being a hypocrite. That’s not an ad hominem BTW because it’s an actual argument with a premises, logic and a conclusion that you yourself seemed to have arrived at if this is where you got that from.

If you really want to focus on this example, there is hardly anything remarkable about this at all. If I were Biden I would not have sent a letter to News outlets telling them what I think they should cover, but to package this as marching orders is just ridiculous.

In the example you cited, they began by telling the world they got this letter. That’s a pretty silly way to follow marching orders aimed at spreading propaganda - by telling people your reporting is propaganda.

The news didn’t need a letter to report on any of this, they’ve been doing so for weeks.

There is not a shred of evidence that the cable news outlets feel compelled to follow Biden’s “marching orders” any more than they would any other politician (yes there’s corruption in media, just like every industry on earth blah blah blah).

What the White House is asking reporters to report on is factually accurate. The republicans have not presented a shred of evidence linking any of this to Biden.

There’s nothing remarkable about any of this.



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Do you know the difference between a pundit/opinion commentator and a news anchor? 
I do. FOX News watchers don’t. Because they’re dummies.

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One should worship leftist Billionaire media exclusively, because they are the ones that can exploit the poor in an approved and humane way...