In this audio clip we can hear a CNN insider openly talking about how a CNN poll was conducted with innacurate information but was submitted anway. She goes on to talk about how the people she talked to regarding this ignored the problem and advised her in the future to selectively choose which polling sources they use.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
CNN Continues To Knock Its Head Against The Wall About Trump Admin, FBI, & Russia
Despite Sean Spicer and Devin Nunes explaining over and over the FBI & CIA have told them the New York Times FBI/Russia story is "total bs" they still continue to act as if its true. I go over the various dishonest propaganda tactics CNN reporters attempt to use while asking questions.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Sunday View: "Why Won't Media Acknowledge That David Icke Outed Ted Heath Years Ago?"
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, February 24th, 2017.]
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Whitehouse.Gov Petition To Halt Google’s Censorship Of Natural News Nearing 20,000 Signatures As Americans Line Up To Oppose The True Face Of Fascism And Oppression
Within a few hours of filing a petition at Whitehouse.gov demanding that Google ends its censorship of NaturalNews.com search results, signatures blasted past 16,000 as Americans fed up with corporate suppression of the truth make their voices heard.
The petition – which is here – states:
Google, which controls 67.5% of internet searches in the United States is attempting to silence any voice that doesn’t coincide with their political views. This incidentally targets some of the biggest voices in alternative media, such as NaturalNews.com and Infowars.com.
This week Google wiped 140,000 Naturalnews.com articles from its database, prohibiting individuals from viewing the site’s webpages if searched. Google sent no prior warning. Natural News has stated that they follow all Google terms of service rules and that they do not condone or endorse any techniques that may manipulate Natural News in the search engines.
This censorship of the Independent Media is a blatant attack on the first amendment rights of users.
Whitehouse.gov petitions need 100,000 verified signatures before they are eligible for a response from the Trump administration. So, in just over 24 hours, we’re nearly 20 percent of the way there. (RELATED: GOOGLE CENSORSHIP BOMBSHELL: Supposed Natural News “violation” of Google webmaster rules also found running on Google’s own Blogspot network!)
Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, noted that the petition became necessary after his site was arbitrarily singled out for censorship based on an arcane advertising rule that a) does not appear to apply to other websites; and b) was based on a single post at Blogs.NaturalNews.com from three years ago. Adam’s says the reason he was given for Google’s actions is questionable, at best:
This morning, I was contacted by a Google technical person who directly emailed Natural News. According to the email, a Google techie found an obscure third party advertising script running on a tiny number of articles published 3+ years ago under the blogs.naturalnews.com subdomain, where content is posted by outside bloggers. (Many websites host similar blogs, including the NY Times.) Google has so far provided us with ONE URL that they claim is a violation. (Yet they banned 140,000+.)
Just to be clear, this script was NOT running on the www.NaturalNews.com primary domain, it was not part of any in-house NaturalNews articles, and it was not even recent. It was from years ago.
This third party script, identified as invoking “cpxcenter.com”, has been so far identified [in] a grand total of 13 blog posts that were posted from 2013 – 2014 under the subdomain blogs.naturalnews.com.
Using this as their excuse, Google blacklisted the entire NaturalNews.com domain, including all 140,000+ pages of content that contained no such third party scripts, thereby “silencing” Natural News content by invoking an obscure, dated, barely-visible technical issue.
Interestingly, as Adams reported, the very same code that was used to punish Natural News is also running on Google’s own BlogSpot network, which is incredible hypocrisy – but also which appears to validate our belief that our site was delisted in Google’s search results as punishment for being a reliable reporter of the truth.
Now, it’s not clear how quickly this will be resolved, or even if it will resolve itself without massive outside pressure put on Google and its parent company, Alphabet. But one thing’s for sure: Readers are outraged over the search giant’s treatment of the Web’s premier site for news and information about alternative health, real science and the truth about many of mainstream medicine’s deepest, darkest secrets. (RELATED: GOOGLE Blacklists Natural News… Removes 140,000 Pages From Its Index… “Memory Holes” Natural News Investigative Articles On Vaccines, Pharma Corruption, Fraudulent Science And More)
While we are humbled by the overwhelming support we have received and are quick to offer readers our thanks, we ask that you continue to help us keep the pressure on Google and sign the petition demanding a response from the Trump administration over this blatant violation of our rights to free speech and potential violations of various commerce and trade regulations.
One other thing that Google, which also claims to be a media company, might want to consider: The Trump White House has not treated anyone well who has attempted to push fake news while burying truthful, honest reporting no matter where it comes from. Google execs should ask the crybabies at The New York Times, CNN, Buzzfeed, and Politico how they feel about being shut out of press gaggles at the White House. The current administration, for once, has made it clear it has no use for fake news and censorship of honest reporting and considers the Trump-hating establishment media to be the true opposition party to the administration.
J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.
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Friday, February 24, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Monday, February 20, 2017
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Donald Trump's Press Conference and PewDiePie's New Video. Common Problem, Liberal Fake Media
Donald Trump gave a press conference that lasted about an hour and seventeen minutes on Thursday, February 16th, 2017. He allowed reporters to ask multiple questions and even follow-up questions. The emphasis, of course, was on the reported White House and/or security community illegal leaks to the press and also how biased the mainstream media is. It was a contentious press conference. Trump is not a very well polished guy when it comes to being an orator but he is apparently very honest. And entertaining. Many members of the press core, including Kristen Welker of NBC, tried to keep their faces straight for the camera when he would make jokes that they would normally laugh at. Media members attempting to hide their positive emotion towards Trump underlines his whole argument about the “very fake news” media.
One thing that Trump said which stumped them was “the leaks are real but the news is fake.” A person from the media in the crowd asked him to explain that statement. Trump basically said that although the sequences of events that leak may be true, the media’s reporting on it is false because of the *way* they report it. Here is a general example. Story A comes out about Trump and it’s positive. But the media puts so much of a negative spin and bias on it, they report on it and word it in a way to where it becomes a different story altogether. Story A has become Story B. Even though at the core of each story, the same facts remain, the public perception of what the leak was to what the reported story has become is different.
PewDiePie has a similar situation. He is the biggest YouTuber on the platform with over 53 million subscribers. His brand of content is centered around tweens and is mostly silly in nature. The media doesn’t seem to like him too much, however, and they display their disdain for him in the articles they write. This relationship has been an issue since it was revealed that PewDiePie makes millions of dollars per year off of YouTube. New media being hated on by legacy media. It all came to a head when a few journalists from a publication decided to do some digging into his video catalogue to find “racist” and “anti-semitic” things. They published their findings in a highly biased article, then left YouTube and Disney to make a decision about their partnership with PewDiePie going forward. That decision was to cancel a “YouTube Red” series featuring PewDiePie and it called for Disney to cancel their sponsorship with him.
At the end of the day, these are two men from two totally different worlds with a couple of things in common. They are successful and the media doesn’t like it.
One thing that Trump said which stumped them was “the leaks are real but the news is fake.” A person from the media in the crowd asked him to explain that statement. Trump basically said that although the sequences of events that leak may be true, the media’s reporting on it is false because of the *way* they report it. Here is a general example. Story A comes out about Trump and it’s positive. But the media puts so much of a negative spin and bias on it, they report on it and word it in a way to where it becomes a different story altogether. Story A has become Story B. Even though at the core of each story, the same facts remain, the public perception of what the leak was to what the reported story has become is different.
PewDiePie has a similar situation. He is the biggest YouTuber on the platform with over 53 million subscribers. His brand of content is centered around tweens and is mostly silly in nature. The media doesn’t seem to like him too much, however, and they display their disdain for him in the articles they write. This relationship has been an issue since it was revealed that PewDiePie makes millions of dollars per year off of YouTube. New media being hated on by legacy media. It all came to a head when a few journalists from a publication decided to do some digging into his video catalogue to find “racist” and “anti-semitic” things. They published their findings in a highly biased article, then left YouTube and Disney to make a decision about their partnership with PewDiePie going forward. That decision was to cancel a “YouTube Red” series featuring PewDiePie and it called for Disney to cancel their sponsorship with him.
At the end of the day, these are two men from two totally different worlds with a couple of things in common. They are successful and the media doesn’t like it.
Trump Toys with Reporters at Press Conference Today
Donald Trump toys with a CNN reporter again, calling his network “very fake news” at today’s epic press conference where he pulled no punches and repeatedly called out the mainstream media for their bias and anti-Trump coverage. CNN’s Jake Tapper, NBC’s Chuck Todd, and Fox News’ Shepard Smith all threw a hissy fit about the way Trump treated the media. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story.
Donald Trump's 2/16/17 press conference analyzed, over wine
Get your glass of wine or whiskey ready: Donald Trump's press conference today was amazing. CNN has been elevated from Fake News to, in the President's own words, Very Fake News. Quite the honor, CNN muppets! Rejoice: you're the very fakest in journalism.
CNN Lies & Cries About Independant Media Being Called On During Press Conferences
Fake news outlet CNN doesnt like that Independent media is being allowed to ask questions during press conferences. They go as far as to outright lie and claim that it's "fixed".
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Tucker vs WaPo's Erik Wemple
Tucker confront's Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple for media bias in his coverage of conservatives and repeated attack on Fox News #Tucker
Michael Flynn, The Russian Ambassador, and Fake News From the Mainstream Media (REACTION)
Michael Flynn has resigned as the 25th National Security Advisor due to a scandal which alleges that he to the Russian Ambassador about the United States Government potentially releasing sanctions on Russia once Trump got into office. The scandal is not about anything that Flynn did that was illegal, rather it is an issue of ethics and trust. It also raises other questions about a speech he gave in Russia in 2014. Certain people in Government are asking whether the speech was quid pro quo and if it was … then maybe the “information leak” to the ambassador could potentially be linked to it.
Donald Trump and some in the White House staff were warned about Michael Flynn shortly after the inauguration but Vice President Mike Pence did not find out until about two weeks later. News media in the United States has been saying that Donald Trump “knew about Flynn” before Pence was told but that’s not really what happened. Trump knew that there *could* be something that Russia could use to blackmail Flynn over, but he did not know exactly what it was. The phone call with the Russian Ambassador was released much later when the media picked it up.
There is much outrage from the left about Flynn and the resignation over his alleged revelation of information that most people would assume already. Trump ran his entire campaign on loosening regulations and trying to get along with Russia. So of course when Obama imposes sanctions on Russia for the so-called “election hacking” just a few days before the Inauguration (literally) then one would have to assume that Trump would come in and reverse some of those sanctions.
Not much outrage from the left was given to Eric Holder when he engaged in the now-infamous fast and furious scandal, however. It seems like one person engaged in much more egregious behavior than the other, and the level of outrage and meltdown is much higher for one than the other. But the reactions don’t seem to align with the offense.
Donald Trump and some in the White House staff were warned about Michael Flynn shortly after the inauguration but Vice President Mike Pence did not find out until about two weeks later. News media in the United States has been saying that Donald Trump “knew about Flynn” before Pence was told but that’s not really what happened. Trump knew that there *could* be something that Russia could use to blackmail Flynn over, but he did not know exactly what it was. The phone call with the Russian Ambassador was released much later when the media picked it up.
There is much outrage from the left about Flynn and the resignation over his alleged revelation of information that most people would assume already. Trump ran his entire campaign on loosening regulations and trying to get along with Russia. So of course when Obama imposes sanctions on Russia for the so-called “election hacking” just a few days before the Inauguration (literally) then one would have to assume that Trump would come in and reverse some of those sanctions.
Not much outrage from the left was given to Eric Holder when he engaged in the now-infamous fast and furious scandal, however. It seems like one person engaged in much more egregious behavior than the other, and the level of outrage and meltdown is much higher for one than the other. But the reactions don’t seem to align with the offense.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Fact Check: Yemen Raid, Did President Trump Irresponsibly Put Troops In Harms Way?
What really happened with the Yemen raid? The legacy media claims its the first military scandal of the Trump admin. Is this true or more fake news?
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won
By Daniel Payne
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
thefederalist.com
Journalists, media types, reporters, you have two choices: you can fix these problems, or you can watch your profession go down in flames.
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
thefederalist.com
Journalists, media types, reporters, you have two choices: you can fix these problems, or you can watch your profession go down in flames.
Since at least Donald Trump’s election, our media have been in the grip of an astonishing, self-inflicted crisis. Despite Trump’s constant railing against the American press, there is no greater enemy of the American media than the American media. They did this to themselves.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of fake news. There is no better word to describe it than “epidemic,” insofar as it fits the epidemiological model from the Centers for Disease Control: this phenomenon occurs when “an agent and susceptible hosts are present in adequate numbers, and the agent can be effectively conveyed from a source to the susceptible hosts.”
The “agent” in this case is hysteria over Trump’s presidency, and the “susceptible hosts” are a slipshod, reckless, and breathtakingly gullible media class that spread the hysteria around like—well, like a virus.
It is difficult to adequately sum up the breadth of this epidemic, chiefly because it keeps growing: day after day, even hour after hour, the media continue to broadcast, spread, promulgate, publicize, and promote fake news on an industrial scale. It has become a regular part of our news cycle, not distinct from or extraneous to it but a part of it, embedded within the news apparatus as a spoke is embedded in a bicycle wheel.
Whenever you turn on a news station, visit a news website, or check in on a journalist or media personality on Twitter or Facebook, there is an excellent chance you will be exposed to fake news. It is rapidly becoming an accepted part of the way the American media are run.
How we will get out of this is anyone’s guess. We might not get out of it, not so long as Trump is president of these United States. We may be up for four—maybe eight!—long years of authentic fake news media hysteria. It is worth cataloging at least a small sampling of the hysteria so far. Only when we fully assess the extent of the media’s collapse into ignominious ineptitude can we truly begin to reckon with it.
Since Trump’s election, here’s just a small sampling of fake news that our media and our journalist class have propagated.
Early November: Spike in Transgender Suicide Rates
After Trump’s electoral victory on November 8, rumors began circulating that multiple transgender teenagers had killed themselves in response to the election results. There was no basis to these rumors. Nobody was able to confirm them at the time, and nobody has been able to confirm in the three months since Trump was elected.
Nevertheless, the claim spread far and wide: Guardian writer and editor-at-large of Out Zach Stafford tweeted the rumor, which was retweeted more than 13,000 times before he deleted it. He later posted a tweet explaining why he deleted his original viral tweet; his explanatory tweet was shared a total of seven times. Meanwhile, PinkNews writer Dominic Preston wrote a report on the rumors, which garnered more than 12,000 shares on Facebook.
At Mic, Matthew Rodriguez wrote about the unsubstantiated allegations. His article was shared more than 55,000 times on Facebook. Urban legend debunker website Snopes wrote a report on the rumors and listed them as “unconfirmed” (rather than “false”). Snopes’s sources were two Facebook posts, since deleted, that offered no helpful information regarding the location, identity, or circumstances of any of the suicides. The Snopes report was shared 19,000 times.
At Reason, writer Elizabeth Nolan Brown searched multiple online databases to try to determine the identities or even the existence of the allegedly suicidal youth. She found nothing. As she put it: “[T]eenagers in 2016 don’t just die without anyone who knew them so much as mentioning their death online for days afterward.”
She is right. Just the same, the stories hyping this idea garnered at least nearly 100,000 shares on Facebook alone, contributing to the fear and hysteria surrounding Trump’s win.
November 22: The Tri-State Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
On November 22, Gabriel Sherman posted a bombshell report at New YorkMagazine claiming that “a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers” were demanding a recount in three separate states because of “persuasive evidence that [the election] results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked.” The evidence? Apparently, “in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots.”
The story went stratospherically viral. It was shared more than 145,000 times on Facebook alone. Sherman shared it on his Twitter feed several times, and people retweeted his links to the story nearly 9,000 times. Politico’s Eric Geller shared the story on Twitter as well. His tweet was retweeted just under 8,000 times. Dustin Volz from Reuters shared the link; he was retweeted nearly 2,000 times. MSNBC’s Joy Reid shared the story and was retweeted more than 4,000 times. New York Times opinion columnist Paul Krugman also shared the story and was retweeted about 1,600 times.
It wasn’t until the next day, November 23, that someone threw a little water on the fire. At FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver explained that it was “demographics, not hacking” that explained the curious voting numbers. “Anyone making allegations of a possible massive electoral hack should provide proof,” he wrote, “and we can’t find any.” Additionally, Silver pointed out that the New York Magazine article had misrepresented the argument of one of the computer scientists in question.
At that point, however, the damage had already been done: Sherman, along with his credulous tweeters and retweeters, had done a great deal to delegitimize the election results. Nobody was even listening to Silver, anyway: his post was shared a mere 380 times on Facebook, or about one-quarter of 1 percent as much as Sherman’s. This is how fake news works: the fake story always goes viral, while nobody reads or even hears about the correction.
Daniel Payne is a senior contributor at The Federalist. He currently runs the blog Trial of the Century, and lives in Virginia.
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