{"id":34652,"date":"2021-11-15T13:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34652"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:11:25","slug":"msm-smash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/15\/msm-smash\/","title":{"rendered":"MSM Smash"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you’re wondering if the mainstream media is getting stories right or not, Andrew Sullivan suggests – quite strong – that they’re not (The Weekly Dish<\/strong><\/em>, paywall<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Think of the other narratives the MSM pushed in recent years that have collapsed. They\u00a0viciously defamed<\/a>\u00a0the Covington boys. They authoritatively told us that\u00a0bounties<\/a>\u00a0had been placed on US soldiers in Afghanistan by Putin \u2014 and Trump\u2019s denials only made them more certain. They told us that the lab-leak theory of Covid was a conspiracy theory with no evidence behind it at all. (The NYT actually\u00a0had the story<\/a>\u00a0of the leak theory, by Donald McNeil, killed it, and then fired McNeil, their best Covid reporter, after some schoolgirls complained he wasn\u2019t woke.) Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.<\/p>\n

The MSM took the ludicrous story of Jussie Smollett seriously because it fit their nutty \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d narrative. They told us that a woman was brutally gang-raped at UVA (invented<\/a>), that the Pulse mass shooting was driven by homophobia (untrue<\/a>) and that the Atlanta spa shooter was motivated by anti-Asian bias (no known evidence for that at all<\/a>). For good measure, they followed up with story after story about white supremacists targeting Asian-Americans, in a new wave of \u201chate,\u201d even as the assaults were\u00a0disproportionately<\/a>\u00a0by African Americans and the mentally ill.<\/p>\n

As Greenwald\u00a0noted<\/a>, the NYT \u201cpublished an emotionally gut-wrenching but complete fiction that never had any evidence \u2014 that Officer Sicknick\u2019s skull was savagely bashed in with a fire extinguisher by a pro-Trump mob until he died.\u201d The media told us that an alleged transgender exposure in the Wi Spa in Los Angeles was an anti-trans hoax (also untrue<\/a>). They told us that the emails recovered on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop were Russian disinformation. They did this just before an election and used that claim to stymie the story on social media. But they were\u00a0not<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Russian disinformation<\/a>. They were a valid if minor news story the media consciously kept from its audience for partisan purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If indeed these are all true, the MSM has damaged itself badly in the name of seeing everything through the lens of white supremacy and anti-Fox News<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you’re wondering if the mainstream media is getting stories right or not, Andrew Sullivan suggests – quite strong – that they’re not (The Weekly Dish, paywall): Think of the other narratives the MSM pushed in recent years that have collapsed. They\u00a0viciously defamed\u00a0the Covington boys. They authoritatively told us \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34655,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions\/34655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}