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Mar 27 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
For the second week in a row @FaceTheNation is inviting only Republicans on to spread GOP messaging. @margbrennan and CBS News have now multiple times refused to allow Democrats on this show to offer a counter perspective

This is precisely how right-wing propaganda works
Last week @margbrennan gave the Sunday show platform to Mitch McConnell to spread false claims about the Supreme Court hearings and Biden’s response on Ukraine/Russia. No Democrat was allowed on to rebut him. And nobody in media seems to care enough to say a word about it
This is an unmistakable pattern in plain sight of deliberately inviting only Republicans on a “news show” to spread right-wing propaganda. This is exactly what Fox News does every day. And no one at CBS is held accountable because the media that covers media doesn’t exist
I’ve done all the research every week on this and I’m literally begging any one of you to write an article about this to get @CBSNewsPress on the record about why this is allowed. It is unfathomable to me that this doesn’t meet the criteria for a standard news story about bias
“Can you explain why only Republicans have been invited on Face the Nation for the last two weeks? Were any Democrats invited and they declined or were they not invited? This seems to be a pattern in booking - is it @margbrennan’s decision or another producer?” you could ask them

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The New York Times hired a Republican from Politico, Blake Hounshell, and is falsely identifying him as a neutral reporter as he helps the most severe insurrectionists erase their role in planning the Jan. 6 attack. His job is to write about how they're exciting "upstarts"
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Mar 20
This morning @FaceTheNation refused to invite a Democrat on to have a chance to respond to false claims made by Mitch McConnell, the latest in a string of pro-GOP bookings by @margbrennan and CBS News in an ongoing campaign to spread misinformation to the public on a news show
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
Mar 19
There is an alarming number of examples of Reuters publishing Kremlin propaganda since the invasion of Ukraine

This transparently pro-Putin outlet should be expelled from the @whca and all press agencies until it is reformed
We live in a constant state of right-wing propaganda because modern American journalism exists to embolden autocrats and fascism in almost every form
This is an American news outlet reprinting Russian propaganda in bad faith, clearly and stubbornly. The Kremlin propagandists who pushed this into US media are Kevin Liffey and Helen Popper. @Reuters has not been held accountable for any of the pro-Putin false messaging it prints ImageImageImageImage
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Mar 9
Reporters who quote, with no context, the people who tried to overturn the election as if they deserve the default of credibility every day are effectively endorsing the Big Lie and telling you that you should believe them
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Mar 8
Shouldn’t journalists apologize for falsely reporting that McCarthy “condemned” Greene and Gosar? It’s been a week and nothing’s happened so his claim that there’s “no place” in the Republican Party for white nationalists is obviously a lie right? Hello? Do we follow up on stuff?
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