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Breitbart's deception

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There will be some idiot to defend this. Im sure of it.

There will also be some deflection of "well, the liberal media does this too," bullshit

Just watch and wait
 
The argument is that migrants in overcrowded detention centers were not tested by the US govt, causing infection and disease of the BP agents. The fact is the BP has the authority to test all migrants using NGO and does just that.

The graduation to RW authoritarian control of American democracy has been the osmosis of the Rep/con/anarchy for yrs. Things will only get worse. What Breitbart did was just a tiny piece in one way of that graduation. It's happening everywhere, right now, just like global warming, in many small and big ways. That 34% of Americans think violence is an appropriate way of disagreement with govt is only more than it was before, which before was a bit more than before that when it was a bit more than before then. It's been happening for yrs. But don't worry, folks. The inaptly named Democrats have the many strong and far-reaching hands of their party firmly planted beneath their ass and covering their eyes, ears and mouth. This is no joke.
 
poweRob said:
This is a pretty shitty deception.

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I'll let you carry on the argument about Breitbart's deception in their article but what I wish to know is just how their "reporter" Randy Clark could get so much information so WRONG in regards CBP Line of Duty Deaths?

The Line of Duty deaths in the CBP for the year of 2020 was 21 and for the year 2021 it was 32.

How could their "reporter" get it so wrong?

In 2019 there were 4 CBP line of duty deaths and just 1 in 2018.

No doubt, looking at those numbers, COVID-19 has greatly increased the LOD's in the CBP as well as across all Police forces in our Nation from local Sheriffs to FBI officers and even Secret Service members.

From the most reliable source I know of there were 484 LOD's recorded by them in 2021 with 325 of those deaths attributed to COVID-19.
 
Brietbart's headlines are often clickbait. I generally don't read the articles unless someone here cites one, but all the titles are a clickbait which is a big problem with modern free "journalism" whether it's Brietbart, Buzzfeed, OAN, HuffPost, etc.
 
poweRob said:
This is a pretty shitty deception.

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Breitbart knows their followers only look at head lines. Even if they should read the article they'll somehow miss nuanced sentences like; These border patrol agents were not vaccinated and died from covid.
 
GummyVitamins said:
Brietbart's headlines are often clickbait. I generally don't read the articles unless someone here cites one, but all the titles are a clickbait which is a big problem with modern free "journalism" whether it's Brietbart, Buzzfeed, OAN, HuffPost, etc.
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Washington Examiner went totally clickbait after 2020 election. They do it "better" than anyone. Opinionated headlines.
 
bluesmoke said:
Washington Examiner went totally clickbait after 2020 election. They do it "better" than anyone. Opinionated headlines.
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A lot of times what happens is that the authors of the articles do not choose their headline. The article itself may not be a total piece of shit, but then an editor gets a hold of the article and decides what headline to put on it to get more clicks on Facebook, Twitter, feeds, etc. When their revenue comes from angry people clicking rather than rational people wanting to be informed the business model shifts. This is why I pay for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist. But, to be fair.. the NY Times has been getting a little more into the clickbait lately which I find annoying. I'm paying to read their articles and they're still pushing spam messages to my phone. The irony is that the WSJ and the NY Times will generally push the same news alert within minutes of each other, but the NY Times will almost always have a more controversial or biased headline.
 
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LouC said:
Better than the New York Post?
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Just based on the headlines, yes. Content, maybe diff. But with WE headline, you don't need content. Headline says it all with as much supporting evidence of fact as the content.
 
GummyVitamins said:
A lot of times what happens is that the authors of the articles do not choose their headline. The article itself may not be a total piece of shit, but then an editor gets a hold of the article and decides what headline to put on it to get more clicks on Facebook, Twitter, feeds, etc. When their revenue comes from angry people clicking rather than rational people wanting to be informed the business model shifts. This is why I pay for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist. But, to be fair.. the NY Times has been getting a little more into the clickbait lately which I find annoying. I'm paying to read their articles and they're still pushing spam messages to my phone. The irony is that the WSJ and the NY Times will generally push the same news alert within minutes of each other, but the NY Times will almost always have a more controversial or biased headline.
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I'm seeing a bit more leaning towards opinion in WSJ headline, along with NYT. Facebook, et al, has completely made competitive the point of click-baiting. Major rags can't keep or get back readership/click-ons lost to the click-baiters without click-baiting themselves.
 
poweRob said:
This is a pretty shitty deception.

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The left creates a total fabricated narrative of white supremacy in America so I think it’s good that right outlets are learning to better use propaganda.

Just keep reasserting Biden is killing border agents and when the left tries to pull this card reassert it louder and accuse him of justifying the deaths of border agents.
 
Breitbart made its fame , not infamy, with a deceptively edited video of agricultural Dept official Shirley Sherrod. It should have spelled their doom, but it only made them more popular. The first sign to me that we were screwed.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
The left creates a total fabricated narrative of white supremacy in America so I think it’s good that right outlets are learning to better use propaganda.

Just keep reasserting Biden is killing border agents and when the left tries to pull this card reassert it louder and accuse him of justifying the deaths of border agents.
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If you want to talk about your white supremacy you should start a thread where that is the actual topic.
 
bluesmoke said:
Washington Examiner went totally clickbait after 2020 election. They do it "better" than anyone. Opinionated headlines.
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I think it's the NY Post but cons will link to it and the entire right side is just images with teaser clickbait headlines and the pics are almost always mostly women with their breasts falling out of whatever they are wearing. Can't help but think cons just sit there on that site instead of going to pornhub so when their wife walks in they can say they are just reading the "news". Kind of like yesteryears, "I just get playboy for the articles."
 
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