Fake News Reporting Thread

[Uncle Sparky]

That is what Rand Paul said.

Ted Nugent said, "Obama can suck on my machine gun", "Hillary can ride this gun into the sunset", and recently, "I think everyone should just tone down all this violent talk..." I think he must be the alt-right's Jon Stewart, though I haven't seen his show.

[Proteus_MST]

They really make the Trump families wedding planner Head of the NYC Federal Housing Office?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/u...smtyp=cur&_r=0

[Uncle Sparky]

The new US ambassador (nominee) to Canada is a Trump/Republican fundraiser whose husband is president and CEO of Alliance Resource Partners L.P., the second-largest coal producer in the eastern United States - http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kell...nada-1.4161325

[Kidlicious]

WEAPONISED MEDIA - THE MOST DANGEROUS HIDDEN HARMFUL ELEMENT IN OUR WORLD TODAY.

"The Fake News Media hates when I use what has turned out to be my very powerful Social Media - over 100 million people! I can go around them!"

Donald J. Trump
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If the Nuclear H bombs finally drop on our civilisation in one final reach for finality by the God and immortality denying priests and atheists of science, spare a thought for the unholy alliance that will have reduced humanity to that pitiful state.

Weaponised Media, its ruthless owners, and surrogates will have driven the narrative against the remaining decent men on earth to a point of no return. If it happens, they will be the true cause of that day.
When the scribes in Sumerian empires of the past developed clay tablets and probably earlier than that, we have been part of the media age.

The Egyptians did a great deal to advance it with their library at Alexandria that fulfilled an ancient dream and a promise of a repository of knowledge to be shared across civilisations.

Recent scientific breakthroughs in memory restoration now allow us to know what was in that repository.

Before its destruction by fire by Julius Caesar’s armies in 48B.C. The Library at Alexandria, was known as one of the seven ancient wonders of the world.

It did not take long for the godless and the defamers of man to start to corrupt the idea of media and today we find ourselves a very long way from its basic premise and purpose. Namely: "To make accurate observations of life and to share those observations so that others can understand them."

The Egyptian Pharaohs were among the first to fall foul of such practice their court scribes, corrupted by psychiatrists posing as magicians, undermined their leadership and their culture till its eventual collapse. Today other than some burial ornaments a few hieroglyphs in museums and the magnificent stone edifices that rise as the pyramid’s above Giza that culture has almost entirely passed by the board.

Perhaps the true mystery of the sphinx is the fact that it was Weaponised Media that destroyed that Egyptian culture too.
In the late thirties a German media weaponisation expert by the name of Joseph Goebbals refined the art of Weaponised Media or Black Propaganda as it has come to be known, to such a degree that he infamously created a such a negative impression of one well known religious group by portraying them as “scuttling rats” on public films and other methods that he successfully managed to persuade many millions in the once civilised nation of Germany to democratically elect a leader and to give support to or “turn a blind eye” to a program of genocide that saw over six million of that religion brutally murdered and precipitated a further 40 million deaths in the war that sprung from those crazed urges of a psychopath backed by weaponised media.

Today as we observe the actions of weaponised media across all media platforms more lives are being destroyed by weaponised media in their pursuit of their agenda than in the darkest days of the reich.

Their methods have become more highly artful, slower and more subtle and insidious but their goals to harm and the orders of magnitude are even greater.

Social media is the last line of defence and the only way that we can beat this scourge that has ultimately destroyed every decent impulse and civilisation of the past.

The fact that you and the leader of the free world can get a pure message out is priceless.

As Trump communicated yesterday on Twitter:

"The Fake News Media hates when I use what has turned out to be my very powerful Social Media - over 100 million people! I can go around them!"

Donald J. Trump

Value your social media networks.

Learn to detect and reverse the mechanisms of weaponised media.
Value those who forward the truth and never underestimate for one moment the potential good that the the communication of truth can create.

- John Mappin

[Aeson]

WTF?

[Proteus_MST]

Good example for fake news, thanks for sharing it, Kid

[Ming]

Now he his quoting members of The Church of Scientology... who would have thought it...

[BeBMan]

Perhaps the true mystery of the sphinx is the fact that it was Weaponised Media that destroyed that Egyptian culture too.

Oh Kid

[giblets]

The Egyptian Pharaohs were among the first to fall foul of such practice their court scribes, corrupted by psychiatrists posing as magicians, undermined their leadership and their culture till its eventual collapse.

Wow, Kid will copy and paste literally anything without reading it.

[rah]

Well it is in the fake news reporting thread. So he can go either way with it.

[Proteus_MST]

Fake News?
Trump on Twitter (on Friday):

I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...01471999864833

Trumps Lawyer today:

...
"The president is not and has not been under investigation," he said on Face the Nation on CBS.

"There has been no notification from the special counsel's office that the president is under investigation. In fact, to the contrary, what we know is what James Comey said the last thing we know is when he testified just a couple weeks back — that the president was not and is not a target of investigation," he said.
...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeednew...ews#.hcLgyabYO


So, Trump again living in his own alternate reality?

[BeBMan]

Breitbart hit hard by weaponised liberal advertisers turning against their new enemy after they finished off Pharaonic Egypt

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...s-still-there/

Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who’s still there?


By Abha Bhattarai June 8

Breitbart’s former chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, is now Trump’s chief strategist. (Danny Moloshok/Invision/Associated Press)
The number of advertisers on the alt-right site Breitbart.com has dropped 90 percent in recent months, from 242 in March to 26 in May, according to data from MediaRadar, a New York firm that tracks online advertising. Among those that continue to advertise on the site include a gentleman’s club in Northern Virginia, a golf resort near the coast of Spain and the conservative foundation Judicial Watch.

“Liberal activists want to destroy Breitbart, but we won’t be cowed,” the foundation’s president Tom Fitton said in an interview. “We advertise widely on the internet, and we’re proud of the relationship and the partnerships we have.”

Fitton said Judicial Watch had been advertising on Breitbart for years, but would not elaborate on the company’s strategy or where else it places ads. “I’m not talking about the details of our internal decision-making with the anti-Trump Washington Post,” he said.


Breitbart News, founded 10 years ago to be “unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel,” catapulted to fame in the run-up to last year’s presidential election. The site has become a gathering ground for conservative supporters of President Trump. (Breitbart’s former chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, is now Trump’s chief strategist.) On Thursday, headlines on its homepage included “D.C. swamp goes crazy for James Comey hearing” and “58 scientific papers declare global warming a ‘myth.'”
Among the advertisers still on the site are Paper Moon Gentlemen’s Club, Big Viral Stories (an anti-Hillary Clinton magazine), Instant Background Checks, America’s Economic Expressway and Revolution Golf, according to MediaRadar.


More than 2,200 companies, including Audi, Harris Teeter, Ethan Allen and Lyft,have asked third-party vendors to pull advertising from the controversial site in recent months, according to Sleeping Giants, an anonymous activist group that is tracking online data. (Amazon.com, however, continues to place ads on the site. Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)

[‘It wasn’t even a question’: The simple calculation for pulling advertising off Breitbart]

Representatives from Breitbart did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“This is a good example of how advertisers have been suddenly shoved into the polarized political landscape,” said David Carroll, a professor of media design at the New School in New York. “It’s a post-election reality the industry was not prepared for.”

MediaRadar estimates that the mix of brands willing to advertise on Breitbart has dwindled in recent months. During the first three months of the year, the site hosted 20 categories — including media and entertainment (accounting for 22 percent of total advertisers), retail (21 percent) and professional services (14 percent). By April, however, advertising had become “almost entirely conservative,” the firm said, offering examples such as TheRightToBear.com and American Patriot Daily.

“Breitbart’s advertising has collapsed,” said Todd Krizelman, co-founder and chief executive of MediaRadar. “Most political sites are making less money today than they did a year ago because of the election cycle. But they’re not down 90 percent, I can guarantee that.”

The number of visitors to Breitbart.com has also taken a hit, tumbling 53 percent since November, to about 10.8 million unique visitors in May, according to ComScore. (Web traffic to The Washington Post, meanwhile, is down about 24 percent in the same period.)

There are also signs that ads on Breitbart might not be as effective as they are on other sites. The “click-through rate” for ads on the site was about 0.15 percent in November, compared to 0.32 percent on the New York Times’ website and 0.35 percent on FoxNews.com, according to WordStream, a Boston-based online marketing firm.

“Ads on Breitbart.com have surprisingly low click-through rates, poor conversion rates, and cost far too much per click, compared to its peers on the Google Display Network,” Mark Irvine, a senior data scientist at the company, wrote in a blog post. “Ads on Breitbart.com may cost as much as they do on FoxNews.com or NYTimes.com, but the reach of Breitbart.com is a fraction of that of its peers.”

[Breitbart News seems to be cleaning house after readers and advertisers drift away]
Breitbart staffers told Fox Business in February that the pullback in advertising has taken a toll on the site.
“People at the news outlet say that an effort is underway to make Breitbart more mainstream, by hiring reporters to cover news and devote less space to political commentary that has been its forte,” Fox Business reported. “People inside Breitbart say while the website may in fact be profitable, it is also suffering from a business standpoint with advertising dollars shrinking significantly.”

But it may be immaterial, said Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City University of New York.
“If Breitbart lost every single penny of advertising tomorrow, it probably wouldn’t matter,” Jarvis said, adding that the site is backed by billionaire Robert Mercer. “Quite the contrary: It would probably be a badge of honor.”

[rah]

Please post content, I don't have a subscription.

[BeBMan]

Edited

[rah]

Thx. Couldn't happen to a worse rag. I'm sure someone will come along and say it's all lies.