<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mainstream-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legacy media</a> outlets once again ignored a sting video released by <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a> with concerning information about the mRNA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID vaccine</a> operation run by <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/pfizer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer</a>.
Jordon Trishton Walker, an official who leads research and development for mRNA projects at the pharmaceutical company, told an undercover Project Veritas journalist that the firm is not entirely sure why the vaccines are impacting women’s menstrual cycles, postulating that the effects could be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence</a> of hormonal disruptions. “There is something irregular about their menstrual cycles. So, people will have to investigate that down the line, because that is a little concerning,” he remarked. “The vaccine shouldn’t be interfering with that.”
Walker said the vaccine should not be interfering with the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, the system which regulates menstrual cycles. “I hope we don’t discover something really bad down the line. I hope we don’t find out that somehow this mRNA lingers in the body,” he continued,” because it has to be affecting something hormonal to impact menstrual cycles.”
Researchers have previously found that COVID vaccines impacted menstruation; one international <a href="https://news.ohsu.edu/2022/09/27/global-study-finds-covid-19-vaccination-can-affect-menstrual-cycle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from the Oregon Health and Science University concluded that “some people may experience a slight, temporary change in the length of their monthly menstrual cycle” after receiving the vaccine. Another <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201#:~:text=In%20this%20sample%2C%2042%25%20of,no%20change%20after%20being%20vaccinated." target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> found that 42% of women with regular menstrual cycles reported heavier bleeding than usual after inoculation.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/pfizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pfizer</a> Director Concerned Over Women&#8217;s Reproductive Heath After COVID-19 Vaccinations
&#8220;There is something irregular about their menstrual cycles&#8230;concerning&#8230;The vaccine shouldn&#8217;t be interfering with that&#8230;It has to be affecting something hormonal&#8230;&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pfertility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pfertility</a> <a href="https://t.co/XAuMPJNShD">pic.twitter.com/XAuMPJNShD</a>
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1621274788734943233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
A brief review by The Daily Wire found that mainstream outlets, from CNN and Reuters to the Associated Press and The New York Times, neglected to cover the new footage nearly 24 hours after it had been published on social media. The same appeared to be true of the first video released last week, which showed Walker appearing to admit that the company uses “directed evolution” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-pfizer-official-physically-assaults-james-okeefe-destroys-ipad-showing-undercover-recordings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mutate</a> coronaviruses for the creation of more potent variants and vaccines.
The lack of attention from legacy media outlets came despite the first sting video garnering 30 million views and the second garnering more than 6 million views.
Snopes published a <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/31/project-veritas-pfizer-mutating-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact check</a> on the initial video citing a New York Times report that called Project Veritas a “conservative group known for its deceptive tactics.&#8221; The article attempted to identify whether Walker was truly an employee at Pfizer; the outlet found various sources of information, including medical licenses and email handles, which “lended credibility to the claim that a man with that name has a background in medicine and is employed by the pharmaceutical company.”
Another <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/project-veritas-covid-mutations-pfizer-fact-check-1776845" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact check</a> from Newsweek describes Project Veritas as a “controversial organization that has previously produced investigations subsequently labeled as false or unevidenced by fact-checkers and other media.” The article did not render a verdict on the validity of the first video’s content, but said online comments stemming from the footage made “misleading characterizations.” They ruled Walker’s statements as “unverified.”
In a subsequent video, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1618743338852835329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confronted</a> Walker on his remarks. Walker then called himself a “liar” who apparently made up the stories to impress the undercover journalist with whom he believed to be on a date. Pfizer did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire about Walker’s employment status.
Walker insisted he is “not even a scientist by background,” adding that he “came from a consulting firm that does business.” Asked whether he works for Pfizer, Walker said, “No, I was a contractor!” When pressed for a second time on whether he currently works for Pfizer, Walker replied, “No! What are you talking about here?”
Despite his denials, Walker’s apparent LinkedIn profile, which appears to have been deleted, and images of internal Pfizer documents <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1618435991211233282" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> by O’Keefe suggest he did indeed work for the pharmaceutical firm. Walker is listed as a Pfizer “director of research and development, strategic operations, and mRNA scientific planning.”

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Media Once Again Ignores Bombshell Pfizer Revelations From Project Veritas

Media Ignores Pfizer Revelations From Project Veritas

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Project Veritas

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Back when I covered the White House for a national newspaper in the aughts, I got word of some internal deliberations going on at the Associated Press.
For the record, the longtime wire service provides news to newspapers and news websites, and guess what? Most of them are liberal. So (and you can’t blame them), the AP delivers liberal news for their liberal readers. That’s just business.
So it turned out the AP was sick of all this balanced, just-the-facts-ma&#8217;am news stuff. The powers that be at the AP decided it no longer had to present two opposing sides equally. Instead, top editors there agreed that they would determine what viewpoint should be stressed, and what viewpoint should be minimized.
The AP then proceeded to cover President George W. Bush in the most biased manner, becoming a mere shadow of its former greatness. Since then, the wire service has become little more than a Democratic organ spewing out the party&#8217;s talking points.
So sure, you could certainly say journalism was grievously wounded back then. But the libs in the newsroom are back to fire off a final kill shot.
Former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward interviewed more than 75 media leaders and put together their findings in a <a href="https://cronkitenewslab.com/digital/2023/01/26/beyond-objectivity/">report</a> titled, &#8220;Beyond Objectivity: Producing Trustworthy News in Today&#8217;s Newsroom.&#8221;
Its conclusion? Objectivity in the media is now considered reactionary, even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, went so far as to say: &#8220;Objectivity has got to go.&#8221;
This is right in line with what liberal professors are teaching liberal students in liberal learning institutions. It&#8217;s now all about advocacy &#8212; pushing one side &#8212; and every fledgling journalist wants to be an activist that promotes change.
&#8220;Many forces have eroded public trust in journalism over the years. Additionally, the traditional standard of &#8216;objectivity&#8217; has lost its relevance for a new generation of journalists and news consumers,&#8221; Downie and Heyward wrote.
&#8220;This report and accompanying &#8216;playbook&#8217; offer actionable guidelines to help news organizations restore a belief in the value of fair, fact-based reporting — trustworthy news. We provide a fresh vision for how to replace outmoded &#8216;objectivity&#8217; with a more relevant articulation of journalistic standards,&#8221; they wrote.
The new edict of new journalism comes as Bob Woodward, who along with Carl Bernstein helped break Watergate, finally acknowledged that the Russian collusion coverage during former President Donald Trump&#8217;s term lacked objectivity and resulted in false reporting.
In a report for Columbia Journalism Review, journalist Jeff Gerth interviewed media and political figures who pushed Russiagate — which turned out to be completely false. Woodward told Gerth that viewers and readers had been &#8220;cheated&#8221; by the coverage, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bob-woodward-condemns-medias-russiagate-coverage-reveals-reporters-ignored-his-warnings-about-steele-dossier">reported</a>.
&#8220;Bob Woodward, of the Post, told me that news coverage of the Russia inquiry ‘wasn’t handled well’ and that he thought viewers and readers had been &#8216;cheated.&#8217; He urged newsrooms to &#8216;walk down the painful road of introspection,'&#8221; Gerth wrote.
But the idea of presenting news in an unbiased fashion, allowing both sides an opportunity to explain its position, has been dying for a while.
Back in 2021, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt declared &#8220;fairness is overrated.&#8221;
&#8220;The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in. That the sun sets in the west is a fact. Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention,&#8221; Holt said, The Daily Wire reported at the time.
Of course, that&#8217;s a silly oversimplification. What about complex issues like abortion, climate change, anything coming out of the White House or Capitol? Nothing&#8217;s ever that clear cut.
But Holt said there’s no longer any need for a journalist to give both sides of a story equal weight.
“Decisions to not give unsupported arguments equal time are not a dereliction of journalistic responsibility or some kind of agenda. In fact, it’s just the opposite,” Holt said. “Providing an open platform for misinformation, for anyone to come say whatever they want, especially when issues of public health and safety are at stake, can be quite dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;Our duty is to be fair to the truth. Holding those in power accountable is at the core of our function and responsibility. We need to hear our leaders&#8217; views, their policies, and reasoning. It’s really important. But we have to stand ready to push back and call out falsehoods.”
And never forget, journalists now decide what the &#8220;truth&#8221; is. No wonder Americans have given up on its media.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Senator Ron Johnson Spars With Chuck Todd During Interview: ‘A Complete Smear Job Against Me’

Senator Ron Johnson Spars With NBC Host Chuck Todd During Interview

Chuck Todd

Meet the Press

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Ron Johnson

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) didn&#8217;t do a single interview with a liberal news outlet during his campaign last year for governor &#8212; and he won in a landslide.
Now, with DeSantis being mentioned often as a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, outlets like The New York Times have got their undies in a wad over the diss.
&#8220;Although he courted right-wing podcasters and conservative Fox News hosts, Mr. DeSantis did not grant an extensive interview to a national nonpartisan news organization during his 2022 re-election bid — and he coasted to victory, with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire now promoting him as a 2024 contender,&#8221; the paper wrote on Tuesday.
In a piece <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230111065852/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/business/media/ron-desantis-media-journalists.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headlined</a> &#8220;Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?&#8221; &#8212; spoiler alert: the answer is yes &#8212; the whiny author told an anecdote about how DeSantis operates.
&#8220;Assigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Miles Cohen, a young ABC News reporter, found himself stymied. The governor would not grant him an interview. Aides barred him from some campaign events and interrupted his conversations with supporters,&#8221; author Michael M. Grynbaum wrote.
&#8220;When Mr. Cohen was finally able to ask a question about the governor’s handling of Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis shouted him down — &#8216;Stop, stop, stop&#8217; — and scolded the media for &#8216;trying to cast aspersions.&#8217; The DeSantis campaign then taunted Mr. Cohen on Twitter, prompting a torrent of online vitriol.&#8221;
But, of course, it&#8217;s clear that the Times would never give DeSantis a fair shake, so why should he bother to sit with them for an interview? While avid newshounds have known for decades that America&#8217;s &#8220;paper of record&#8221; is widely liberal, former President Donald Trump exposed the Times once and for all for the hard-left rag that it is.
DeSantis has avoided other heavily biased outlets and shows. When a producer for &#8220;The View&#8221; emailed an invite for him to chat with hardcore liberals Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, he simply said, &#8220;nuh uh.&#8221;
Instead, he sat for an interview with Will Witt, the 26-year-old founder of the Florida Standard, a conservative website that launched only a few days before.
Witt, who garnered a strong following as a young conservative pundit with the nonprofit video producer PragerU, praised DeSantis. “It&#8217;s so nice when you have someone who recognizes what you&#8217;re doing and really appreciates it,” he <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/04/2022/desantis-press-favorite-outlets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Semafor.
DeSantis hasn&#8217;t gone as far as former President Trump, who often called the media the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221; But he also hasn&#8217;t gone easy on them, either.
After a massive hurricane hit Fort Myers, Florida, last year, he accused the press of rooting for it to strike Tampa.
”Quite frankly, you have national regime media that they wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that that’d be worse for Florida. That’s how these people think,” DeSantis said during the <a href="https://youtu.be/tWtNWmtJsDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Florida Voice, another conservative outlet.
“They don’t care about the people of this state. They don’t care about this community. They want to use storms and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda,” he said. “If they can use it to pursue their political agenda, they will do it.”
Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for DeSantis, confirmed the governor’s beliefs in an <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3678541-desantis-steps-up-attacks-on-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email</a> to The Hill.
“Governor DeSantis is absolutely correct in his assertion: many people in the media have shamefully capitalized on the tragedy of Hurricane Ian to push their political agenda,&#8221; Griffin said.
There&#8217;s an awful lot of time before the 2024 elections, and liberal outlets will be more demanding. But DeSantis should stick to his guns &#8212; and he should certainly skip any debate held by a liberal network.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Democratic megadonor George Soros will pay journalists anywhere from $63,000 to $85,000 to advance progressive criminal justice reform.
Soros is offering media fellowships, or “Soros Justice Fellowships,” through his nonprofit: the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Fellows must produce projects that align with Soros’ goals of reducing incarceration rates and sentencing guidelines.
Media fellowships last 12 months, with the expectation that fellows make the projects their full-time work. Up to three people may apply jointly for a single fellowship.
Journalists aren’t the only ones eligible for these <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships?current=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fellowships</a>. OSF offers three distinct categories of fellowship funding — advocacy, media, and youth activism — which may pay up to six figures, according to <a href="https://onsa.asu.edu/scholarship/soros-justice-fellowships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholarship data</a> provided to universities. These categories qualify a wide variety of professions such as lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, artists, and filmmakers.
As The Daily Wire has reported over the years, Soros Justice Fellowship alums have made headlines for their activism — this includes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lapd-will-not-seek-charges-against-some-people-it-arrests-instead-taking-them-to-social-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark-Anthony Johnson</a>, longtime ally of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-largest-jail-system-host-voter-jeffrey-cawood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Burton</a>, founder of the criminal justice reform activist group, A New Way of Life (ANWOL).
The fellowship program isn’t new — Soros has offered this funding for over 25 years. Since the program’s inception, a total of 469 individuals have received fellowships. Most of the earliest fellows involved in media went on to become acclaimed journalists across a variety of major legacy outlets.
The following are current fellows involved in mainstream media, out of 18 total fellows for 2022:
<ul>
<li>Yasmine Arrington, of Washington, D.C., will produce a podcast featuring only “Black and brown youth voices” discussing the criminal justice system, including juvenile probation, reentry, and recidivism. Arrington has written for TeenVogue, Essence, Black Enterprise, Forbes Magazine, Washington Post, and Baltimore Times.</li>
<li>Zachary Siegel, of Chicago, Illinois, will write and narrate news coverage concerning current approaches to overdose deaths. Siegel has written for Harper’s Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, New Republic, WIRED, Politico, and Scientific American.</li>
<li>Irene Franco Rubio, a Phoenix, Arizona, native attending the University of Southern California, will produce a podcast on juvenile minority incarceration and their criminalization in public school systems. Franco Rubio has written for Forbes, USA Today, Teen Vogue, and NPR, as well as worked for Michelle Obama’s nonprofit. Franco Rubio was recognized as a scholar by a number of prominent groups: Facebook Journalism Project, Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Equal Voice News, International Center for Journalists, and ProPublica Diversity.</li>
</ul>
Several current fellowships went to budding journalist-activists:
<ul>
<li>Tiera Howleit, a student reporter at Indiana University’s collegiate paper. Howleit’s fellowship profile says that she will use the funds to “elevate the voices of people of color [&#8230;] impacted by the criminal justice system.” Howleit founded “Black Collegians” in 2020, a social justice advocacy group.</li>
<li>Katherine Owojori, a pre-law student at USC, will work with Franco Rubio to produce the above-mentioned podcast. Owojori is an active member of Black Lives Matter: Los Angeles.</li>
</ul>
Past fellows involved in mainstream media, in the order in which their fellowship was awarded:
<ul>
<li>Cloee Cooper &#8211; PBS, The John Oliver Show, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Politico, Nevada Public Radio, Spectrum TV</li>
<li>Contessa Gayles &#8211; CNN, VICE, PBS Frontline, CBS, Wired, Al Jazeera, Vox</li>
<li>Lam Thuy Vo &#8211; Buzzfeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, NPR, ProPublica, The Guardian, The New York Times, ESPN</li>
<li>May Jeong &#8211; Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Intercept</li>
<li>Shanita Hubbard &#8211; The New York Times, HuffPost, Essence Magazine, Fusion, The Root</li>
<li>Cynthia Greenlee &#8211; The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Vox, Self, Harper’s Bazaar, The Counter, American Prospect, Dissent, Ebony, Elle, Longreads, Salon, Smithsonian</li>
<li>Donovan Ramsey &#8211; The New York Times, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Ebony, GQ, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Essence</li>
<li>Jenni Monet &#8211; The Guardian, Yes! Magazine, Los Angeles Times, PBS, Al Jazeera, Indian Country Today, Columbia Journalism Review</li>
<li>Julieta Martinelli &#8211; Futuro Media, Nashville Public Radio, CBS, Real Atlanta Magazine, Gwinnett Daily Post</li>
<li>James Kilgore &#8211; Medium, WIRED Magazine, Al Jazeera, Salon</li>
<li>Katie Rose Quandt &#8211; The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Appeal, The Nation, Vice, Slate, Mother Jones, Brooklyn Magazine, America Magazine</li>
<li>Ebony Underwood &#8211; Huffington Post, Vibe, USA Today, The Appeal, Vibe, Mic</li>
<li>Isaac Bailey &#8211; The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, Esquire, CNN, Nieman Reports</li>
<li>Nick August-Perna &#8211; National Geographic, PBS, HBO, Vox, Vice</li>
<li>Judith Levine &#8211; Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, Vogue, Mother Jones, The Nation, Boston Review, Salon</li>
<li>Maia Szalavitz &#8211; The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Elle, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, NPR</li>
<li>Alisa Roth &#8211; NPR, CBS, PRI’s The World, Marketplace, The New York Times, Business Week, Nation</li>
<li>Mark Obbie &#8211; The Atlantic, The Trace, Politico, The New York Times, The American Lawyer, Texas Lawyer, Houston Post, Pacific Standard, Inc. Magazine, Slate</li>
<li>Osagie Obasogie &#8211; The New York Times, Slate, Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New Scientist</li>
<li>Seth Freed Wessler &#8211; Associated Press, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, NPR, NBC, This American Life, Elle, PRI’s The World</li>
<li>Luis Trelles &#8211; NPR</li>
<li>James Ridgeway &#8211; Mother Jones, The Economist, Parade, Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera</li>
<li>Jean Casella &#8211; Mother Jones, The Guardian, Solitary Watch, The Appeal, Al Jazeera, The Nation</li>
<li>Joel Medina &#8211; Huffington Post, Univision</li>
<li>Erin Siegal &#8211; The New York Times, Time, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker</li>
<li>Jonah Engle &#8211; The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands International, Deutsche Welle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Nation Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Denver Post, Haitian Times</li>
<li>Lisa Riordan Seville &#8211; NBC News, The Crime Report, The Nation, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, Salon</li>
<li>Hannah Rappleye &#8211; The Wall Street Journal, Mail &amp; Guardian, The Nation, City Limits, The Crime Report, Salon.com, MSNBC</li>
<li>Chandra Thomas Whitfield &#8211; People, Essence, Ebony, The American Prospect, The Guardian, HuffPost, NBC News, NPR, U.S. News &amp; World Report, Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, Time, Newsweek, The Root</li>
<li>Petra Bartosiewicz &#8211; Harper’s, Mother Jones, The Nation, New York Magazine, Texas Observer, This American Life</li>
<li>Amanda Crawford &#8211; Boston Globe, Businessweek, National Geographic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, Arizona Republic, Baltimore Sun</li>
<li>Jesse Wegman &#8211; The New York Times, Reuters, Daily Beast, Newsweek, New York Observer</li>
<li>Renee Feltz &#8211; Democracy Now!, The Intercept, The New York Times, Texas Observer, PBS</li>
<li>Stokely Baksh &#8211; New Republic, Forbes, Mother Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Marketwatch, PBS, The Nation, Al Jazeera</li>
<li>Jessica Pupovac &#8211; PBS, NPR, WBEZ Chicago, The Chicago Journal</li>
<li>Nancy Mullane &#8211; NPR, American Public Media</li>
<li>Patrice Gaines &#8211; The Washington Post, NPR, Washington Informer, Yahoo News, NBC News, Yes! Magazine, New York Times, Essence</li>
<li>Jennifer Thompson-Cannino &#8211; The New York Times, Durham-Herald Sun, Tallahassee Democrat</li>
<li>Erin Torneo &#8211; Cosmopolitan, Variety, Independent, indieWIRE</li>
<li>JoAnn Mar &#8211; NPR, Voice of America, Pacifica Radio, CBS Radio, KALW-FM</li>
<li>Jonathan Mahler &#8211; The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, HuffPost, MSN, CNBC, Yahoo</li>
<li>Laura Mansnerus &#8211; The New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, MSN, The Boston Globe, Business Standard, Tampa Bay Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</li>
<li>Paul Butler &#8211; MSNBC, NBC News, Nature, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Yahoo, People</li>
<li>Susan Koch &#8211; ABC, NBC, HBO, PBS, MTV, Discovery Channel, National Geographic</li>
<li>David Dent &#8211; The Daily Beast, PBS, HuffPost</li>
<li>Emily Bazelon &#8211; New York Times Magazine, Business Insider, HuffPost, MSN, The Independent, The Washington Post, ABC News, The Atlantic, Yahoo, Miami Herald, Vogue, RealClear Politics, Slate</li>
<li>Mary Beth Pfeiffer &#8211; Forbes, HuffPost, Scientific American, The Globe and Mail, The Hill, Newsday, RealClear Politics, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</li>
<li>Steve Liss &#8211; Time, PBS</li>
<li>Amy Bach &#8211; New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Nation, Slate</li>
<li>Elizabeth Amon &#8211; Bloomberg News, The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Imprint</li>
<li>Nathan Blakeslee &#8211; Texas Monthly, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Houston Chronicle, The Texas Observer</li>
<li>Robin Mejia &#8211; The Washington Post, Science, Mother Jones, LA Times, CNN</li>
<li>Slawomir Grunberg &#8211; PBS, HBO, ABC, NBC</li>
<li>Tyrone Turner &#8211; National Geographic, NPR, DCist</li>
<li>Brenda Kenneally &#8211; New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine</li>
<li>Jan Goodwin &#8211; New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie-Claire, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal</li>
<li>Sara Cantania &#8211; Los Angeles Times, Reuters</li>
<li>Adrian LeBlanc &#8211; Seventeen Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire</li>
<li>Alden Loury &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ-FM, The Chicago Reporter, WVIK-FM</li>
<li>John Biewen &#8211; NPR, American RadioWorks</li>
<li>Sasha Abramsky &#8211; The Nation, American Prospect, The Daily Beast, Columbia Journalism Review, The Atlantic, HuffPost, San Francisco Weekly, The Guardian, Mother Jones, New York Magazine</li>
<li>Andrew Lichtenstein &#8211; Yahoo, Business Insider, MSN, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Al Jazeera, The New Republic</li>
<li>Dan Collison &#8211; Newsweek, NPR, Thomson Reuters Foundation</li>
<li>Eric Whitney &#8211; NPR, CNN, The Washington Post, WebMD, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New Jersey Public Radio</li>
<li>Nell Bernstein &#8211; The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Crime Report, The San Francisco Standard</li>
<li>Jennifer Gonnerman &#8211; The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Village Voice</li>
</ul>

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George Soros Funding Criminal Justice Reform Plants In Legacy Media

<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/cryptocurrency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cryptocurrency</a> news outlet The Block secretly received millions of dollars in funds from disgraced former FTX CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/sam-bankman-fried" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Bankman-Fried</a>.
Mike McCaffrey, the outlet’s former chief executive, resigned from his role on Friday after he told chief revenue officer Bobby Moran that Bankman-Fried provided $27 million in loans through his trading firm, Alameda Research. No other employees at The Block reportedly had any knowledge of the financial arrangement.
“This news came as both a shock and disappointment to The Block leadership team,” Moran said in a <a href="https://medium.com/the-block-crypto/ceo-transition-e2700caed741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “Mike’s decision to take out a loan from SBF and not disclose that information demonstrates a serious lack of judgment. It undermines The Block’s reputation and credibility, especially that of our reporters and researchers, as well as our efforts at industry-leading transparency.”
Moran claimed that McCaffrey did not seek to “improperly influence the newsroom or research teams” in their coverage of Bankman-Fried and his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency empire.
Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have opened a criminal investigation into the entrepreneur to determine whether he broke the law by transferring FTX customer funds to Alameda Research, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-disgraced-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times. Bankman-Fried plans to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-agrees-to-testify-before-congress-i-had-thought-of-myself-as-a-model-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testify</a> before the House Financial Services Committee next week. Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-commodities-regulator-tells-senators-he-met-with-sam-bankman-fried-10-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held</a> a hearing with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam on increasing oversight of the cryptocurrency sector.
The Block’s announcement came as a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/12/09/bankman-fried-funded-crypto-news-site-block" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Axios detailed the transactions. One of the loans, amounting to $16 million, was used in part to buy McCaffrey an apartment in the Bahamas, where FTX is headquartered. The other loans were utilized to fund the buyout of The Block through LLCs controlled by McCaffrey, who acquired a majority stake in the company.
“As this news becomes public, our work will be held up to the most rigorous scrutiny,” Moran added. “We are confident that any objective analysis will show that our team’s work has been and remains fair, independent, and accurate. The Block’s mission remains more vital than ever: to be the leading source for objective, impactful, and timely information covering the world of digital assets.”
The Block, which is wholly owned by employees after a restructuring last year, will have revenue of approximately $20 million this year, largely through advertisements and subscriptions. The unprofitable company nevertheless plans to continue operating. Reporters for the outlet recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNiYt1GN_4&amp;t=20s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Bankman-Fried for their podcast.
Several other publications had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-of-center-media-accepted-millions-from-democrat-donor-and-disgraced-crypto-wunderkind-sam-bankman-fried" target="_blank" rel="noopener">portrayed</a> Bankman-Fried as an “effective altruist” who donated his fortune to causes such as “pandemic prevention.” Even after his companies’ recent liquidity crunch, Bankman-Fried has been the subject of multiple puff pieces. The 30-year-old had formerly given multimillion-dollar grants to various outlets through his nonprofit entity Building a Stronger Future. ProPublica and The Intercept were promised $5 million and $4 million, respectively, to investigate issues such as biosecurity and public health preparedness. Vox likewise received a grant that would allow employees to execute “a project on technological and innovation bottlenecks that hamper human progress.”
Bankman-Fried, a prolific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-democrats-and-republicans-who-received-campaign-cash-linked-to-bankrupt-crypto-empire-ftx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign donor</a>, has denied accusations of overt criminality. New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-denies-wrongdoing-in-ftx-implosion-during-live-streamed-new-york-times-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the entrepreneur that he received multiple letters from FTX customers who accused Bankman-Fried of stealing their life savings, prompting him to say that he was “deeply sorry about what happened.” After Sorkin pressed him on the alleged intertwining of funds between his companies, Bankman-Fried claimed that a “failure of oversight” on his part resulted in confusion rather than any desire to defraud investors for his own profit.

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The Associated Press Stylebook sets the usage and grammatical format for hundreds of news agencies, laying out style and terms in an alphabetized book several hundred pages long.
So it matters when the stylebook makes a substantive change. This week, the journalist&#8217;s bible forbade the use of the phrase &#8220;late-term abortion,&#8221; which drew swift rebuke as politically motivated.
&#8220;Do not use the term &#8216;late-term abortion,'&#8221; the stylebook said in a post on Twitter. &#8220;The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [ACOG] defines late term as 41 weeks through 41 weeks and 6 days of gestation, and abortion does not happen in this period.&#8221;
&#8220;Instead, use the term &#8216;abortion later in pregnancy&#8217; if a general term is needed, but be aware that there are varying definitions of the time period involved,&#8221; the organization added. &#8220;Be specific when possible: abortions after XX weeks when XX is known in the context of the specific story.&#8221;
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The new change drew ridicule on the social media platform.
&#8220;ACOG is a pro-abortion group. As a supposedly unbiased news source you shouldn&#8217;t rely on partisan groups to determine your terminology,&#8221; Life News, a pro-life organization, <a href="https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1600221275929968640">wrote</a>.
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&#8220;This is absurd,&#8221; it <a href="https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/1600221782991986689">added</a> Life News, a pro-life group. &#8220;When SCOTUS came up with three trimesters in 1973, late-term was understood to be post viability or the 3rd trimester. Now you&#8217;re redefining it to be the 6 days before term. That&#8217;s not medicine, that&#8217;s propaganda designed to gloss over late-term abortions.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Late-term abortion&#8217; is too aggressive a way to describe stabbing a viable unborn baby in the heart with a needle containing potassium chloride &amp; delivering its lifeless corpse,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnWesleyBush3/status/1600247336822665216">wrote</a> another. &#8220;The absolute ghouls populating our elite class traffic in euphemism because they have nothing else.&#8221;
But that&#8217;s the modern AP. The longtime wire service provides news to newspapers and news websites, and guess what? Most of them are liberal. So (and you can&#8217;t blame them), the AP delivers liberal news for their liberal readers. That&#8217;s just business.
But the days of the AP simply being an unbiased news site are long gone. I remember when I was covering George W. Bush in the White House, the powers that be at the AP decided it no longer had to present two opposing sides equally. Instead, top editors there agreed that they would determine what viewpoint should be stressed, and what viewpoint should be minimized.
Now, the AP simply says that they are right, and you are wrong.
Let&#8217;s settle one thing: early-term abortion, first trimester. Mid-term abortion, second trimester. Late-term abortion, third trimester. That&#8217;s language.
Some call that last procedure &#8220;partial-birth abortion.&#8221; Since the AP is using ACOG as its fundamental source, let&#8217;s turn to their counterpart, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (it&#8217;s called equal representation, a cornerstone of journalism), for a counterpoint.
&#8220;Partial-birth abortion (PBA) is the term Congress has used to describe a procedure that crosses the line from abortion to infanticide. The doctor delivers a substantial portion of the living child outside his mother&#8217;s body &#8212; the entire head in a head-first delivery or the trunk past the navel in a feet-first delivery &#8212; then kills the child by crushing his skull or removing his brain by suction,&#8221; the conference <a href="https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/partial-birth-abortion">wrote</a>.
Well, uh, gruesome.
A strong majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion. &#8220;A survey conducted by You.gov with the pro-life group Americans United for Life found that 66 percent of U.S. adults who identify as pro-choice opposed third-trimester abortions, and 68 percent oppose abortions the day before a baby is born,&#8221; the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dec1f82c4c630cb97ab7cefc58cf0866">reported</a> in 2019.
But an equally strong majority also support abortion in general.
&#8220;Today, a 61% majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases,&#8221; Pew Research reported in June. &#8220;Majorities of adults across racial and ethnic groups say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.&#8221;
So, AP, that&#8217;s some balanced journalism. And renaming abortions that occur in late term &#8212; you know, &#8220;late-term abortion&#8221; &#8212; to &#8220;abortion later in pregnancy&#8221; is the opposite of journalism.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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The federal government has awarded $5 million to a group of journalists called Hacks/Hackers to develop software that will encourage regular Americans to confront their friends over &#8220;harmful&#8221; posts, and &#8220;correct misinformation&#8221; by replying with text suggested by the software.
The group is also organizing <a href="https://newsq.net/2022/07/29/why-does-wikipedia-need-a-reliable-sources-list-on-vaccines-update/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia censors</a> to determine who is a &#8220;credible source&#8221; on vaccines, and block anyone else from being cited on the online encyclopedia. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220823173618/https:/www.hackshackers.com/hh-is-hiring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Job ads</a> for the project do not require that applicants have any expertise in medicine.
That <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vaccine_safety/Reliable_sources#Perennial_sources">list</a> is already taking shape on Wikipedia, with liberal outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and The Atlantic all marked &#8220;reliable.&#8221; Conservative sites, including The Daily Wire, Daily Mail, Epoch Times, and The Federalist, are all classified as either &#8220;unreliable&#8221; or &#8220;conspiracy.&#8221;
The group led by Hacks/Hackers received $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop &#8220;the <a href="https://artt.cs.washington.edu/response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust</a> (ARTT), a suite of expert-informed resources that are intended to provide guidance and encouragement to individuals and communities as they address contentious or difficult topics online,&#8221; it <a href="https://www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hackers-partners-advance-phase-ii/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on October 24.
Users are encouraged to paste in their friends&#8217; Twitter and Facebook posts, and the tool will tell them how &#8220;harmful&#8221; they are. Then it &#8220;suggests relevant responses through tailored response examples or templates&#8221; that the user should copy and paste as a reply, according to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qye0Fk3gcp8&amp;list=PLGhBP1C7iCOlKk7pNWHP6BN7irpwy9z9Y&amp;index=15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> demonstrating the software.
&#8220;Every day there are motivated citizens, like librarians, health communicators, and amateur volunteers, who engage with the misinformation that is posted by their peers and make efforts to share reliable information to empower their communities,&#8221; the video said
ARTT says it uses psychology techniques to change people&#8217;s views&#8211;though when purveyors of “misinformation” do similar, the ARTT tool calls it &#8220;psychological manipulation tactics.&#8221;
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Another ARTT <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_3tnct4zDg&amp;list=PLGhBP1C7iCOlKk7pNWHP6BN7irpwy9z9Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> said that while social media platforms have made efforts to combat misinformation, influencing people&#8217;s views is more effective when it comes from friends than from social media companies directly.
&#8220;That&#8217;s why we want to focus on these peer connections when it comes to having these conversations online &#8230; Instead of coming to you from the platform, it&#8217;s actually coming to you from a friend,&#8221; the video said.
Project materials suggest the view that journalists should help enforce that others only echo &#8220;authoritative guidance&#8221; from governmental and quasi-governmental bodies like the World Health Organization (WHO), which served as an advisor on the project.  The group also indicates that the vaccine issue is just a pilot project for using the software on other topics.
Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center, which monitors bias in media, said journalists like those behind the project &#8220;want to remove dissenting views from the internet and leave the rest in a state of reprogramming. For a profession that’s allegedly taught to oppose a herd mentality, they sure seem hell-bent on creating manufactured consensus.&#8221; The NSF, for its part, is acting like &#8220;a weapon to be wielded against the American people,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire.
Hacks/Hackers did not return a request for comment.
The ARTT funding is part of NSF&#8217;s <a href="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/convergence-accelerator/updates/nsfs-convergence-accelerator-releases-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Convergence Accelerator</a> program, which has a focus on &#8220;Trust &amp; Authenticity in Communication Systems.&#8221;
&#8220;Modern life depends on access to communications systems that offer trustworthy and accurate information. The Convergence Accelerator is funding tools and techniques to help the nation effectively prevent, mitigate and adapt to critical threats to communication systems,&#8221; NSF said, noting that it is &#8220;very hands-on with our funded researchers.&#8221;
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In September 2021, the Convergence Accelerator awarded <a href="https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/convergence-accelerator/portfolio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$21 million</a> to 28 groups including Hacks/Hackers as well as to others like &#8220;Course Correct: Led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this team creates a dynamic misinformation identification dashboard, empowers journalists to identify misinformation networks, correct misinformation within the affected networks, and test the effectiveness of corrections.&#8221;
It also went to &#8220;Expert Voices Together: Led by George Washington University, this team is building a rapid-response system to assist journalists, scientists, and other experts whose work is being undermined by coordinated online harassment campaigns.&#8221;
In August 2022, 12 teams including Hacks/Hackers went on to a more heavily-funded Phase II, at a combined $60 million.
“Phase II of the ARTT project is led by Hacks/Hackers, a non-profit organization focused on journalism and technology, and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science &amp; Engineering at University of Washington. Throughout Phase I, a variety of organizations including Wikimedia DC, MuckRock Foundation, and Social Science Research Council collaborated and partnered in the project,” Hacks/Hackers said. “Additional advising in Phase I has come from members of WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net.”
Hacks/Hackers is <a href="https://www.hackshackers.com/about/organizers/">governed</a> by three people with connections to the left-wing Knight Foundation, including San Francisco-based journalist Burt Herman and former New York Times writer Jennifer Lee. Knight has also <a href="https://knightfoundation.org/reports/opennews-insights-from-building-a-community-of-newsroom-technologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funded</a> a similar group, OpenNews, which runs the <a href="https://opennews.org/what/community/dei-coalition/join/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms</a>. The Wikipedia project is an initiative of <a href="https://newsq.net/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsQ</a>, a Hacks/Hackers subsidiary that is also supported by the NSF.
NSF recently spent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/500000-national-science-foundation-grant-produced-paper-saying-science-is-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$500,000</a> for a 22-page study that used Critical Race Theory to argue that science itself is racist.

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CNN morning show host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-journalists-must-treat-republicans-as-dangerous-to-our-society/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a> managed to surprise &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-chief-chafes-over-gutfeld-balks-when-journalist-points-out-he-beat-colbert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Colbert</a> during a Monday evening appearance when he asserted that he didn&#8217;t believe his network had ever been &#8220;liberal.&#8221;
Lemon and Colbert discussed CNN&#8217;s new management — namely new CEO <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-cracks-down-on-drinking-during-new-years-eve-live-viewers-mourn-loss-of-hosts-on-air-antics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Licht</a>, who had previously worked for Colbert — and the apparent new direction the network has taken since Licht took over and the long-planned Warner Bros./Discovery merger went through. And when Colbert asserted that Licht was not &#8220;allowing&#8221; people at CNN to be liberal anymore, Lemon argued that they hadn&#8217;t been before.
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&#8220;Look who that is. It’s one of the co-hosts of &#8216;CNN This Morning,&#8217; Donald Lemon,&#8221; Colbert began, introducing the CNN anchor. &#8220;Now, our old buddy Chris Licht, he used to stand right over there where &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Who? Who is it?&#8221; Lemon asked.
&#8220;Chris Licht, he is the CEO of CNN. He’s your boss now,&#8221; Colbert continued. &#8220;He used to stand right over there. He’d stand right over there and hit the applause sign before we’d go to commercial. Basically, all his job was. And now he’s got a really hard job, which is, which is running CNN. The word on the street is that you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore. Is that, is that the case?&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t think we ever were liberal,&#8221; Lemon shot back.
&#8220;What?&#8221; Colbert appeared to be confused.
&#8220;Yes, I don’t think we ever were,&#8221; Lemon insisted.
Colbert pushed back, saying that it wasn&#8217;t really him saying that Licht wasn&#8217;t <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowing anchors</a> to be liberal: &#8220;That’s the people out there saying that he’s not letting you be liberal anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, listen, I think that, I think what Chris is saying is that he wants Republicans, sensible Republicans,&#8221; Lemon explained, arguing that the new direction was more about keeping people &#8220;comfortable&#8221; than about choosing a side. &#8220;But also, by the nature of what we do, we have to hold people to account. And so that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going liberal or conservative or whatever. It just means that we are doing what we do. And that’s good journalism.&#8221;
&#8220;So accountable, not confrontational,&#8221; Colbert posited.
&#8220;I think sometimes one must be confrontational,&#8221; Lemon argued, going on to explain that the real move was away from being overtly hateful and attacking each other.
&#8220;Look, I don’t think that a conversation on television should be any different than a conversation in person. Listen, I have, I have confrontational conversations with people I love and I have uncomfortable conversations with people I love. And I think it’s necessary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think it’s also necessary to to do that on television, on CNN. And then but you can do that without being vitriolic. I think not being vitriolic is maybe a better way of putting it. But you can do that and not have vitriol. And as people say, you can disagree without being disagreeable. And so I think that that’s what our mission is.&#8221;

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Don Lemon Offers Bizarre Rebuttal When Colbert Says New CNN Boss Won't Let Anchors 'Be Liberal'

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New CNN CEO <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-chief-chafes-over-gutfeld-balks-when-journalist-points-out-he-beat-colbert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Licht</a> pushed back — hard — against claims that he wanted the network to be more &#8220;centrist&#8221; under his leadership, calling the notion &#8220;bulls***.&#8221;
Licht explained his position during a <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a289eb16-6aa4-4b4e-831a-aa4663b7c9fd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent interview</a> with The Financial Times, saying that his goal was not to drive the network straight down the middle — rather, he said, he wanted to get away from the constant five-alarm-fire news alerts that ultimately had the effect of watering down what was real news.
&#8220;One of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls***,&#8221; Licht said, arguing that it wasn&#8217;t about being Left or Right of center — it was about presenting news in a way that made people want to watch.
&#8220;You have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side. Sometimes you just point out uncomfortable questions. But either way you don’t see it through a lens of left or right,&#8221; he added.
Licht&#8217;s <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/cnn-toobin-stelter-harwood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">early moves</a> at the helm of the cable news giant led many to believe that he intended to weed out some of the more heavily partisan programming: he terminated senior media reporter Brian Stelter and canceled his Sunday morning show &#8220;Reliable Sources&#8221;; he relegated longtime evening anchor Don Lemon to a morning show co-hosting gig; and he fired longtime White House reporter John Harwood.
But Licht, who previously worked for late-night comedian Stephen Colbert, has appeared to struggle to find the right balance — which he says should include lighter content in addition to breaking news.
&#8220;If everything is a crisis, if everything is 11, if everything is breaking news, then no one listens when there actually is a crisis,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;When you say, &#8216;No, no — really — the house is on fire now.'&#8221;
But if the past is prologue, the shake-ups at CNN may be far from over. Licht announced on Monday that programming director Michael Bass, a longtime ally of previous CNN president Jeff Zucker, would be leaving at the end of the year. According to a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-11-21/cnns-top-programming-executive-will-leave-at-years-end" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Los Angeles Times, this move was not entirely unexpected and might be followed by more high-profile exits.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats</a> and the liberal media are starting to worry about stolen elections again, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> believes he knows why.
Speaking on his popular podcast and radio show, the Daily Wire co-founder noted Hillary Clinton is already accusing “right-wing extremists” of plotting to steal the 2024 presidential election and MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace suggested international monitors for next month’s midterms. A strange twist for liberals who insisted the 2020 election was the “most secure” ever.
“All of this panic, of course, is because elections are perfectly sacrosanct when Democrats win,” Shapiro said. “But when Democrats are in danger of losing, of course, elections become not sacrosanct anymore, and you have to worry about the possibility that they are going to be stolen.
“And the reason the Democrats are freaking out about this, of course, is because Democrats are underperforming,” Shapiro said.
Clinton gave her dire – and unsubstantiated – warning in a video released Monday.
“Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-gets-jump-on-2024-election-denial-says-right-wing-extremists-plotting-a-steal">Clinton said</a>, urging her followers to help “crush the coup” she believes could happen in two years. “And they’re not making a secret of it.”
Wallace voiced her concerns in an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6314293509112">interview with a Democrat congressman</a>.
“Do you think it’s time to ask for friends and allies to come over and help us monitor our elections?” the host of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” asked Rep. Jim Himes, D-CT. “We used to do that in other burgeoning and threatened democracies.”
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MSNBC&#39;s Nicolle Wallace wants foreign governments to interfere in our elections <a href="https://t.co/yrDF3LNKLc">pic.twitter.com/yrDF3LNKLc</a>
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Himes pushed back, yet lumped Republicans in with “Russians and Chinese and North Koreans and Iranians” who are “messing around with our elections.” Shapiro called out the crackpot comparison.
“The Republican Party, as it turns out, is a domestic political party that is campaigning,” Shapiro said. “That&#8217;s not the same thing as the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians&#8230; The mixup there is so telling. And Nicolle Wallace suggesting that we need the U.N. to come in and monitor our elections is really something.”
The panic is telling, Shapiro said, and part of the reason for it is the man at the top of the party, President Joe Biden.
“One reason they are underperforming is because the president of the United States is no longer a sentient human being,” Shapiro said. “His brain is not functioning properly. And this means that Democrats, at the top of their ticket, have a person who is wildly unpopular. They have a bad economic situation, the social policy they are pursuing is extraordinarily radical, and they&#8217;re no longer progressives.
“And then when they begin to lose, then the most obvious thing that they can do is suggest that the election is going to be stolen,” he added.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> isn’t a radical himself, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation acknowledges, yet somehow he is radicalizing young men by espousing mainstream beliefs that have only recently become “controversial” to the Left.
That was the cockeyed attack the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire</a> podcast and radio show host and best-selling author found himself defending against on his program Tuesday. Shapiro was responding to a Monday CBC article headlined, “‘It&#8217;s a slippery slope&#8217;: How young men fall into online radicalization,” which sought to blame him in part for the fact that some males become alt-right extremists after listening to him.
“Apparently it is fully OK to make a slippery slope argument when I say something that is not extreme, it&#8217;s possible to make the argument that somebody might view that and then see something that&#8217;s a little more extreme, a little more extreme, that eventually they end up being a Nazi,” Shapiro marveled.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/CBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBC</a> says I’m radicalizing young men, but can’t name any radical views I supposedly promote. They merely want to equate conservatism with extremism in order to silence those who dissent from Leftist orthodoxy. <a href="https://t.co/Xco9XsdyhD">pic.twitter.com/Xco9XsdyhD</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1572307624497930240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro, an orthodox Jew who is reviled by the alt-right and often reciprocates the animosity, pointed out that his beliefs are well within the mainstream spectrum. The article specifically called Shapiro’s claim that transgender people suffer from a mental disorder “controversial.”
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“We have to pretend that men who say they are women are actually suffering from some sort of mind-bodymisalignment, and the problem is with their bodies,” Shapiro said. “So if you just chop off some body parts, then magically they&#8217;re a woman because their brain is the brain of a woman.
“Now, you might have to have a mental disorder to believe that, but that&#8217;s actually not science,” he added.
One line in the CBC article captures how it sought to say Shapiro is responsible for extremism – even though he is not an extremist.
“While Shapiro is not affiliated with any hate group, experts in media, gender studies and the radicalization of young men say that the commentator’s content is prevalent in online extremist communities,” author Brock Wilson wrote.
The “experts” are not named.
“And who are these experts?” Shapiro wondered. “Do they just sit in an Ivy League war room and discuss their expertise in front of students?
“They&#8217;re experts, by the way, in gender studies,” he continued. “Oh, well! Experts in gender studies, that must mean that they believe a bunch of crap that isn&#8217;t true&#8230;that is not a major that qualifies you for anything except being a professor in gender studies. That is a fully self-perpetuating cycle of uselessness.”
The “slippery slope” Shapiro is supposedly key to leads to dangerous alt-right views like the objectification of women and racism, ideals Shapiro said he has always vehemently rejected. The real objective of the article, and of much of the Left, Shapiro said in a Monday tweet, is to define speech and beliefs it disagrees with as “harmful” so that it can be silenced and even criminalized.
“Here comes the media attempt to get me banned from social media,” wrote Shapiro, who has 4.5 million Twitter followers and the nation’s biggest political podcast audience. “They can&#8217;t name which views of mine are particularly radical, so they just go for the &#8220;I&#8217;m radicalizing the youths!&#8221; Pathetic garbage from the Canada&#8217;s public broadcaster.”
Canada has become increasingly intolerant of free speech and unwilling to protect children from the mentally ill adults, Shapiro said. He cited the case of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-district-defends-trans-shop-teacher-whose-enormous-fake-breasts-spurred-internet-furor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender teacher in Ontario</a> who wears absurdly huge prosthetic breasts in the classroom. Video and images of the teacher went viral, prompting mockery, derision, and concern for the children of Oakville Trafalgar High School. But the school sprang to the defense of the teacher.
“We strive to promote a positive learning environment in schools consistent with the values of the HDSB and to ensure a safe and inclusive environment for all students, staff and the community, regardless of race, age, ability, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, cultural observance, socioeconomic circumstances or body type/size,” school officials wrote in an email to parents.
That, Shapiro said, is how backwards the Left has things.
“See, this is not extreme,” he said. “It&#8217;s not extreme to foist upon students sexual perverts. That&#8217;s what that is.”
“We&#8217;re not even talking about a person who just has gender dysphoria,” he continued. “We&#8217;re talking about a person the picture shows who&#8217;s wearing watermelon-sized breasts in front of high school students with fake nipples attached to them.”

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