There’s more hypocrisy in journalism now than there is in politics.
On today’s show we talk about the anger from liberal journalists about being held to the standards they hold everyone else to. Also, a one-term, backbench former Congressman turned failed radio host is challenging President Trump for the Republican nomination, CNN’s Brain “the human potato” Stelter thinks Trump is mentally unfit for office while Joe Biden continues to show he might not be.
Rather than a serious campaign kick-off with a crowd of supporters, former Congressman Joe Walsh went on “This Week” to announce his candidacy. It was welcome news in liberal newsrooms, while the American people who heard about it had one question on their lips: Who? We have the audio and explain why there was no formal campaign event (he likely couldn’t gather a crowd).
The New York Times is very upset that conservatives are searching social media posts of liberal journalists and digging up past racist/sexist/anti-Semitic/embarrassing things their employees have said. In essence, liberals do not want to be treated the way they’ve treated every conservative, both public and private citizens, for the last decade. We get into all of it.
Brian Stelter, AKA the human potato, had a psychiatrist on his show who thinks calling Donald Trump crazy is an insult to crazy people and the President could be responsible for more deaths and Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. Stelter offered no rebuttal of follow-up question, claiming he wasn’t able to hear the comments. That doesn’t explain why no one who works on the show told him either at the time or during a commercial break.
Stelter also thinks his idea that the President is mentally unfit for office is something the media needs to focus on more. To make his case, he relies on comments from noted Trump haters. Seems Stelter’s “analysis” is as unbiased as his employer’s reporting.
After much criticism of the biggest technology firms, such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon for alleged prevention of competition in their fields, the Justice Department has commenced a huge antitrust review.
Attorney General William Barr is spearheading the effort, which is expected to penetrate more deeply into the companies’ practices than the intentions of the Federal Trade Commission. Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim stated, “Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands. The department’s antitrust review will explore these important issues.”
In late June, President Trump accused social media companies like Google and Twitter of attempting to “rig the election” and suggested they should be sued, saying, “I tell you what, they should be sued, because what’s happening with the bias— and now you see it, with that executive yesterday from Google, the hatred for the Republicans. It’s not even like, ‘Gee, let’s lean Democrat.’ The hatred! And actually, you know, I heard that all during my election. It’s hard that I won. They were swamping us with negative stuff.”
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo stated, “These companies have an enormous amount of power if they can even stop the president of the free world from getting his message out.”
Kathy Zhu, a conservative college student and Miss Michigan World America, was stripped of her pageant title just four days after receiving it. The reason why? “Insensitive” social media posts, according to an email on behalf of the Miss World America (MWA) organization sent to Zhu.
On Sunday, July 14, Zhu was crowned Miss Michigan World and by Thursday, July 18, she was stripped of her title. A representative of the Miss World America organization contacted Kathy Zhu by way of email to inform her that she must give up her title as Miss Michigan World America due to “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content” posted on her social media accounts. The email also stated that Zhu’s social media posts were in clear “violation of MWA’s Rules and Conditions” in that she did not meet the requirement of “being of good character and whose background is not likely to bring into disrepute Miss World America or any person associated with the organization.”
I posted this on Facebook the other day. It’s utterly ridiculous to limit a talent’s social media presence. I went through this at CBS. They banned all social media and podcasting as it was just surging. A presence on a platform isn’t an issue, especially on Parlor. Her post content would be the only potential issue and she’s not being accused of posting inappropriately.
The real story here is that a coworker leaked this to the public in order to smear her. That person should be fired. I know they violated the terms of their employment for doing this.
A Fox 10 host in Phoenix whose bosses asked her to hide her account on “right-wing” social media platform Parler because a left-wing outlet might notice it had a terse response; “F*ck them”.
Fox 10’s Emmy Award-winning anchor Kari Lake dropped the f-bomb on camera as she was preparing to do a Facebook Live broadcast and the clip was subsequently leaked online.
Good for her.
I also love how she called the paper a bunch of 20-year-olds who run a rag to sell pot. Savage.
