New York Post reporter quits citing pressure to write incorrect story about Kamala Harris

[Phys251]

Yet another right-wing myth goes down in flames:

New York Post reporter quits citing pressure to write incorrect story about Kamala Harris

Laura Italiano claimed she was forced to write a report about migrant children being given a copy of the VP’s book as part of a welcome kit

www.theguardian.com

The New York Post published an article on 23 April headlined “Kam on in”, which claimed migrant children were being given welcome packs that contained copies of the US vice-president’s 2019 children’s picture book, Superheroes Are Everywhere. A follow-up article claimed thousands of copies had been distributed.

In reality, officials said a single copy of the book had been donated by a member of the public as part of a call for presents to give to unaccompanied child migrants.

Despite this, the story was followed up by several rightwing media outlets including Fox News. One of the cable channel’s reporters even asked the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, about the supposed mass distribution of Harris’s book by the government, while Republican politicians suggested it was part of a plot to direct government funds into Harris’s pocket.

The right-wing media, including Fox "News," jumped all over this story, which turned out to be yet another right-wing myth. Now this disgraced reporter is having to resign.

 

[TomFitz]

Yet another right-wing myth goes down in flames:

New York Post reporter quits citing pressure to write incorrect story about Kamala Harris

Laura Italiano claimed she was forced to write a report about migrant children being given a copy of the VP’s book as part of a welcome kit

www.theguardian.com

The right-wing media, including Fox "News," jumped all over this story, which turned out to be yet another right-wing myth. Now this disgraced reporter is having to resign.

That is the normal pattern.

Facts and truth don’t matter.

Someone makes up a ridiculous claim and puts it on their blog (or Murdoch media, or some talk radio moron does it), and they all watch the eyeballs.

If enough of the Trump dead enders start looking at it and sharing it, all of them crawl over top one another to parrot it.

 

[Amelia]

how about that!

 

[Mr Person]

Circular citation. It's the way the right wing propaganda machine works.

This actual fake news keeps getting manufactured because right wing propaganda thinks someone assert something on a blog is evidence. The blogger himself probably just saw a Facebook meme in his feed. But then a few sources cite that blog. Then a few more cite the sources that cited the blog. Along the way, creative rebloggers add those "anonymous sources" they pretend to take issue with in. They turn into these sprawling webs of self-referencing bullshit.

It's pretty easy to work out if you actually take something a Trumpist cites and follows all the key internal links back, and back, and back, and back. But then, they're not interested in working out whether it's true.

As long as it sounds like something reflecting negatively on something on "the left", they run with it.

 

[STUT]

Yeah, right wing media is really tripping over themselves to find scandal in the Biden admin. Last week it was about the supposed ban on red meat, this week its a copy of a children's book that ended up in a book drive that was donated to migrant children.

God, its good to be back to normal

 

[Callen]

Facts and truth don’t matter.

Yeah, right wing media is really tripping over themselves to find scandal in the Biden admin. Last week it was about the supposed ban on red meat, this week its a copy of a children's book that ended up in a book drive that was donated to migrant children.

It is astounding to me that Trumpers are so accepting of the fact they are constantly being lied to and manipulated. Either that they are just too dense to figure it out and they actually believe this crap even after it is debunked.

 

[TomFitz]

Circular citation. It's the way the right wing propaganda machine works.

This actual fake news keeps getting manufactured because right wing propaganda thinks someone assert something on a blog is evidence. The blogger himself probably just saw a Facebook meme in his feed. But then a few sources cite that blog. Then a few more cite the sources that cited the blog. Along the way, creative rebloggers add those "anonymous sources" they pretend to take issue with in. They turn into these sprawling webs of self-referencing bullshit.

It's pretty easy to work out if you actually take something a Trumpist cites and follows all the key internal links back, and back, and back, and back. But then, they're not interested in working out whether it's true.

As long as it sounds like something reflecting negatively on something on "the left", they run with it.

That pattern existed well before Trump, actually.

Right wing media has been doing this since the late 1990’s. Indeed, most of the propoganda campaign that Rumseld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearle etc waged was run this way.

They knew that they could not connect Sadaam with 9/11 officially (lord, how they tried!), but right wing media did it for them. Repeatedly and loudly.

And this cycle of lie made up and then repeated by other liars is now pretty standard practice.

There isn’t any journalism in most of the popular right wing media. Just political marketing and fundraising (with heavy emphasis on the latter).

 

[Mr Person]

That pattern existed well before Trump, actually.

Right wing media has been doing this since the late 1990’s. Indeed, most of the propoganda campaign that Rumseld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearle etc waged was run this way.

They knew that they could not connect Sadaam with 9/11 officially (lord, how they tried!), but right wing media did it for them. Repeatedly and loudly.

And this cycle of lie made up and then repeated by other liars is now pretty standard practice.

There isn’t any journalism in most of the popular right wing media. Just political marketing and fundraising (with heavy emphasis on the latter).

Oh, I don't assert that it started with Trump. I used the term "Trumpist" because that's the state of the kind of right wing media that does this today.

 

[The Mark]

It is astounding to me that Trumpers are so accepting of the fact they are constantly being lied to and manipulated. Either that they are just too dense to figure it out and they actually believe this crap even after it is debunked.

If most of your info intake is telling you it's true or mostly true, it's easy to ignore/dismiss the occasional glimpse of a reality you don't want to see.

 

[TomFitz]

Oh, I don't assert that it started with Trump. I used the term "Trumpist" because that's the state of the kind of right wing media that does this today.

Yeah, and a lot of them are orchestrated campaigns.

Victoria Toensing and her husband, Joe DiGenova have been masters of this sort of noise campaign. They were big mouthpieces for the GOP Benghazi noise campaign.

Then they started pushing Crazy Uncle Rudy’s scheme.....