by Don Surber
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post reported, “Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks.
“An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation and the quality of medical information online.”
By misinformation research, the Bezos Post meant censorship.
By political disinformation, the Bezos Post meant Republicans telling the truth about such lies as the Russian dossier.
By the quality of medical information online, the Bezos Post meant mocking treatments that work on covid (such as ivermectin) and promoting actions that failed to stop the virus (such as wearing a cloth mask or standing six feet apart).
The Bezos Post credited Congressman Jordan with the push back. That’s a big win for him.
The paper said, “The National Institutes of Health froze a $150 million program intended to advance the communication of medical information, citing regulatory and legal threats. Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as nutritional guidelines and not just politically charged issues such as vaccinations that have been the focus of the conservative allegations.
“NIH officials sent a memo in July to some employees, warning them not to flag misleading social media posts to tech companies and to limit their communication with the public to answering medical questions.”
Poor babies. $150 million? How much of that money was earmarked to pay off Big Social Media?
The programs that the Bezos Post championed wither in court because the First Amendment protects disinformation, misinformation and hate speech. Indeed, those are reasons we have free speech because the government censors the truth, not lies.
If the government censored lies, the entire newspaper industry would collapse in a pile of yellowed clippings because they lie all the time now.
For example, on Saturday, I was minding my own business when the LA Times reported, “Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vetoed a bill that would have asked judges presiding over custody battles to take into consideration a parent’s support for their child’s gender identity — a culture war flashpoint that has drawn vocal criticism from the right.”
As an old newspaperman, I was amused by the phrase “a cultural war flashpoint.”
That means a lefty idea that has lefties bailing.
Further down, LAT admitted this, reporting, “The bill has drawn criticism and sparked controversy, including among conservatives who claimed it would force parents who do not support their child’s gender identity to give up custody rights.”
Ah, “including among conservatives” means liberals, too, have reservations about the wisdom of going so far so fast. Oh, eventually they want to re-assign everyone’s sex, but that takes time. Incrementalism is the key when destroying a society.
Another phrase that needs translation is “conservatives who claimed.” Whenever conservatives are right, newspapermen state it as fact. Journalists throw shade on any truth that makes libs look bad.
(“Without evidence” is another phrase that helps journalists throw shade.)
Fact-checking the claim is easy. The bill says, “This bill, for purposes of this provision, would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child.”
So all other factors being equal, going along with the child’s sexual confusion would determine custody rights. And of course this enables the judges to use affirmation, as they call caving in, as a tool to deny custody, something the law obviously does not now support. If it did, there would be no need for this law.
The LA Times lied about the law, but that is par for the course. When a newspaper double eagles, it gets a Pulitzer. The best example are the Pulitzers that went to the Bezos post and NYT for lying about Putin fixing the election for Trump. That lie is so deeply embedded that it will be the talk of people on Mars in 4000 AD, when they study the fall of Ancient America.
Florida newspapers lied about the Parental Rights In Education law. They reported it as the Don’t Say Gay law, sometimes in quotes and often attributing it to critics, who never were named. The law calls for age-appropriate sex education, something we all thought we agreed to when we allowed sex ed in schools two generations ago.
Transgender is a euphemism for transvestite. Today’s journalists say sex does not determine gender but they also say changing one’s secondary sexual characteristics affirms gender. I never said journalists made sense.
Along those lines, journalists also refer to the castration and mutilation of children as gender-affirming care. It is like calling abortion health care. Gender-affirming care not only sterilizes the victim but causes all sorts of other medical problems. Hormone blockers also are described this way, but they stunt growth and can lead to osteoporosis.
These same journalists earlier joined the FDA in dismissing ivermectin as horse paste. By horse paste, the FDA meant an off-the-shelf and effective treatment for covid. But admitting that would mean the vaccines the FDA was helping Big Pharma develop would have to undergo testing on people before approving its use. So the FDA lied and the press never questioned those lies.
The result was a mandate of a vaccine that neither protected the vaccinated nor stopped the spread of covid. This is widely known now. No journalist in America will dare dig out the truth and report it for another generation because journalists now comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
Journalists always side with the government and authorities, except for the few who are conservatives.
NYT reported, “Book Bans Are Rising Sharply in Public Libraries.”
There are exactly zero books banned in America. The best the left can do is come up with a list of what they call challenged books, which is literature people object to. NYT buys into the lefty American Library Association equating people complaining about children being able to read pornography with book bans. Here’s a page from Gender Queer.
Much of the news speak newspeak is obvious. Readers already know that lefty riots are called mostly peaceful protests, while conservative mostly peaceful protests are labeled insurrections.
The Ministry of Propaganda taking up the language of propagandists.
I met a family of four just moving here from CA.
the father said that even tho Newsom vetoed that bill, the super-majority dems could over-ride that veto if they want.
He went on to say that, under that law, he would be prevented from opposing his children’s desire to put pillowcases around their necks and jump off the roof.
The laws of Nature are up for one’s opinion in CA, even if it means you break your back or get your dick cut off.
The very same M.S. Media Bottom Feeders who trashed Trump now Praise Biden which proves the M.S. Media are leftists Propagandists not real news