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1 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Take notes, everyone, this is how political stratcom operatives use media for damage control ...

cnn.com/2021/06/01/pol…
Command messaging high up in the story, probably almost word for word what the Harris team wanted to convey.

I wonder if Biden gave her clearance for this or if her office is freelancing
lol, nothing quite like being on deep background ("sources") to praise your boss.
This piece is going to show up in fact checks that suppress criticism of Kamala Harris vis a vis the border on social media, mark my words.
Harris's team couldn't have written a better anchor for the story themselves.

We get it, you guys really like Kamala.
lol wow

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Geoffrey Ingersoll Profile picture
30 May
One thing I will never forget:

We are having this conversation exactly a year late because the media wanted to make sure Biden won the election.
The irony is that Trump probably would have lost anyway, but the fact remains, any line of inquiry remotely perceived as beneficial to Trump had to be stamped out … and anyone willing to pursue it was treated as an insane pariah AND viciously suppressed on social media.
The last part is what annoys me most. It’s not just that American media mimicked Chinese propaganda, it’s that the fact checking apparatus was eager to enforce the orthodoxy.

And it wasn’t for lack of information. Don’t let them gaslight you. Not very much info has changed.
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20 Apr
The assault on language in the name of “inclusivity” or sensitivity is really just about making language so imprecise that regular people can no longer speak truth.

Not a mistress, but a companion. Not a riot if it’s a mostly peaceful protest. Not illegal, just undocumented.
And if you want to get really down into the guts of the matter, please take notice that every mandated change in language is not only more muddled, but it takes LONGER to even say.

If the base outcome of the change is to obfuscate and belabor language, then it seems clear that
the people enforcing the change find the subject to be either one of much personal discomfort or just plain inconvenient to their goals, usually the latter under the shrill guise of the former.

Don’t call them illegal aliens, you bigot, these words literally hurt me!
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Geoffrey Ingersoll Profile picture
1 Apr
I’d be willing to bet that I’m among less than one percent of senior editors/reporters in national politics 40> who has voted for both parties.

Why does it matter?
Well because as local papers dry up, journalism increasingly stovepipes. Similar academic pipelines form similar people going to the surviving corporate media companies that all have similar interests.
The web has also divided national political media into two concentrated competing forces.

On one hand, you have the conservative commentariat. On the other, about 8-12 journalism institutions barely holding on to objectivity as wokists steadily takeover their newsrooms.
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16 Mar
There’s no accountability when lefties publish fake shit. None.
It’s absolutely fucking nutty to me. Spend months calling lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory” or calling the laptop story “disinfo” ... none of it true, all of it ultra high stakes, v important. Just fake narrative after fake narrative. Dangerous for schools to open. Fake.
Trump told them to “find fraud.” Fake. Jussie Smollett. Fake. Covington. Fake. Hands up, don’t shoot. Fake. Jacob Blake was unarmed. Fake. Alfa bank. Fake. Cohen in Prague. Fake. Don Jr Wikileaks. Fake. Michael Avenatti. Holy fake. Russia dossier. Ffffffucking fake.
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9 Feb
Do we honestly believe anything the WHO says about the origins of the Wuhan virus?

We need an independent, multinational team of scientists to investigate this lab.

Even then, China's immediate actions as the virus struck lead me to believe that any evidence has been destroyed
Going a step further, there should be a UN and Washington-led moratorium on Gain of Function research until this investigation is complete.

I read the ethics papers published during the US moratorium from 2014-2017. If there's even a shade of possibility that this research ...
... led to what we just experienced -- and there most certainly IS a possibility, even a probability -- it strikes me that we should STOP right now and re-evaluate the pursuit as a whole.
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11 Jan
I know things were a hectic, but I find it rather shocking the ease with which the NYT invented a story about a credentialed reporter out of whole cloth and then published it.

Given how rapidly the FBI is arresting people, the NYT should take pains to get this stuff right.
For those who don't know, Sunday's @nytimes published an image of @RichieMcGinniss, referred to him as a "rioter" and said he was engaged in violent activity at the capitol.

NONE OF THIS IS TRUE.
While we’re at it, the NYT correction makes no attempt to correct the implication. Instead, they say the “right wing” reporter was somehow adjacent to the violence and property destruction.

This is sickening behavior from the paper of record. Be up front when you fuck up.
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