As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of “preference” as “orientation” or “sexual preference.” TODAY they changed it and added the word “offensive."

Insane - I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real.

(via @ThorSvensonn & @chadfelixg)
I mean this is all just complete insanity. Here’s Leon Panetta, Obama’s Defense Sec, writing in 2018 for CNN about how “Trump is not who we are” since “we are all created equal under God, regardless of our race, creed, religion, color, sexual preference."

cnn.com/2018/01/17/opi…
I really enjoy this CNN article headlined “What does ‘gender-fluid’ mean?” which includes this line: "Being gender-fluid doesn't determine a person's sexual preference."

Apparently what is considered offensive language, like gender, is fluid.

cnn.com/2016/04/13/liv…

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25 Sep
"The President has betrayed you,” said Don Lemon. “The President lied to you,” said Chris Cuomo.

This isn’t fact-based news coverage, and it’s not even opinion programming. It’s trying to tell the viewer how THEY should feel.

My @FourthWatch newsletter: getdrip.com/broadcasts/985…
@FourthWatch .@drsanjaygupta said a single anonymous “source” told him we "could have saved 80 to 90% of the people who died.”

Who is the source? Why does a single source get to make explosive comments anonymously? This fact-free, conjecture has no place on CNN: getdrip.com/broadcasts/985…
@FourthWatch @drsanjaygupta Too often hosts at CNN and elsewhere are riffing in monologues - but they are doing it fact-free. It’s not with compelling evidence. With well-researched arguments. They are appealing to feelings. It's condescending. And it's antithetical to journalism.

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17 Sep
There are prominent forces in the media irresponsibly elevating conspiracy theories, and sowing seeds of doubt about the election and vaccines.

Before we get to the crazy next weeks and months ahead - it needs to stop. My @FourthWatch newsletter:
getdrip.com/broadcasts/480…
@FourthWatch Also in @FourthWatch:

- On BuzzFeed, "Resistance Journalism" and more - podcast with @benyt Smith of the NYT

- Press starting to get fed up with lack of Biden access

- First edition of "WHY" - why are pundits on cable news?

getdrip.com/broadcasts/480…
@FourthWatch @benyt "Cable news and news websites are increasingly about getting a really devoted fandom…Trump is the sun in the sky and everything revolves around him.”

Hear my full podcast with @benyt - on the Trump Era of the media, Resistance Journalism and more:

thefirsttv.com/on-buzzfeed-th…
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31 Aug
Trump said he "ended NAFTA and signed a brand-new USMCA.” @ddale8 said it was “false or misleading.”

Trump said he did more for Black Americans than any pres. since Lincoln. Is that false, or just a typical Trump boast? Fact-checking the viral fact check: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
Protesters screamed at Sen. Rand Paul to acknowledge Breonna Taylor. Paul actually introduced the “Justice For Breonna Taylor Act” prohibiting no-knock raids after talking to her family. How many media outlets included that detail? Few. From @FourthWatch: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch Carl Bernstein had Watergate. It made his career. For WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein - she thought she had Legogate. Thus began the embarrassing media moment of fact-checking whether a 3-year-old actually built a replica Lego White House. Details in @FourthWatch: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou… Image
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30 Aug
The Acela Media was very turned on by Daniel Dale’s fact check of President Trump Thursday night. It was yet another over-the-top response to checked facts.

Is "fact checking" the new media religion, or the new media fetish? My @FourthWatch newsletter: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch Media misrepresents the Rand Paul story, leaving out key information about Paul and Breonna Taylor, in service to protesters who were screaming at the Senator and attempting to push him.

It’s not an issue of media style, but of substance. @FourthWatch:
mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch Journalists decide to fact-check whether a three-year-old built a Lego White House - which led to one of the most insane tweets of all-time over #Legogate.

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28 Aug
The RNC was a shocking return to normalcy, in two key ways:

I was wrong about the coverage - CNN and other networks aired as much of the RNC as the DNC (if not more). And also… it felt like a normal convention? My @FourthWatch take on the week:
mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch Also in @FourthWatch:

Violent riots are not peaceful protests, and the media continues to conflate the two. But the media is starting to catch on to how damaging, politically, this conflation is to Biden’s election chances: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch Also in @FourthWatch:

- TikTok Trump Sarah Cooper keeps moving up, while media critics grow

- #BCCInterview with @MZHemingway

- Hear @RobLowe on @joerogan, read @TimAlberta, watch @krystalball and @esaagar

mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
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19 Aug
Cuomo got a prime slot, despite his horrid COVID response (and dropped news he’s writing a book).

Clinton got a prime slot, even in the MeToo Era.

Michelle Obama barely got fact-checked.

Assessing media coverage of DNC nights 1 and 2, in @FourthWatch: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch The media's focus on postal conspiracy theories continues to grow and get more hysterical and hyperbolic.

Some are demanding “Red Alert Coverage”! Of what exactly, besides tinfoil conspiracies that journalists like @garyhe corrected? @FourthWatch: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
@FourthWatch @garyhe Hear about the anti-Trump media star of the moment (that you likely never heard of before)? It took coordination between NeverTrump’ers and the media, with WaPo, CNN and more happy to play along.

A new @FourthWatch section - #HowYourMediaSausageIsMade: mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fou…
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