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A barbaric terrorist attack that killed over a thousand Israelis brought out the worst from the mainstream media. I want to walk you through some really terrible examples. @FreeBeacon

Start here ⤵️ freebeacon.com/media/media-bi…
A lot of outlets essentially said that Israel had it coming.

That included @washingtonpost, who take victim blaming to the next level with this one. Just give it a read.
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I asked this earlier this week but again: if you didn’t have the names on them, could you tell which is from @washingtonpost and which is from Hamas?
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@NBCNews also seemed to run with Hamas talking points.
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@NPR led off this conversation with a stirring defense of the terrorist’s decision to kill innocent people. See for yourself.

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As the dead were still being counted, @nytimes rushed to explain how and why some Gazans see the barbarism as “justified”
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@nytimes even had an inconceivable stealth edit on another piece. After calling the Hamas terrorists who gunned down innocent women and children “terrorists,” they changed the wording, as @greg_price11 pointed out
@tomselliott has a handy supercut with some more egregious examples:
Then there were the individual journalists like @m7mdkurd who justified the violence, and others like @KarenAttiah who expressed sympathy for terrorism as a form of resistance. (H/t @megynkelly)
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This isn’t the first time the media have produced slanted coverage about Israel. When Hamas’s rocket bombardment in 2021 led to an Israeli response, the @nytimes dedicated its front page to some of the victims, without including that Hamas had gotten them killed. (H/t @BA_Fogel)
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And the rest of the press, led by @MSNBC and @NBCNews struck a similar note as we’re seeing today: that Israel is evil and deserves what it gets at the hands of terrorists.

H/T’s @theMRC and @NickFondacaro
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@omriceren is still right about this one. @washingtonpost
Hell, @NBCNews was there in Gaza City for the Hamas victory parade in 2021. (H/t @MarinaMedvin)
Much has (rightly) been made about the horrible statements and sentiments around what’s happening in Israel - Democrats on the Hill, diversity activists who cheerlead terrorism, elite universities, etc. We can’t leave the press out of that discussion.

And it’ll only get worse.

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I’m not sure people realize just how egregious some of NPR’s “journalism” has been. Amid the debate about defunding the network, I wanted to walk down memory lane to revisit some of its worst coverage.

There’s a lot. ⤵️
First, perhaps the most egregious display of activist journalism: their response to the Hunter Biden laptop story of corruption involving a major party candidate on the eve of the election.

Not only did @NPR not cover it, they bragged about refusing to do so. Image
Insofar as @NPR did cover the Hunter Biden scandal, they actively tried to cover it up.

They applauded Facebook & Twitter strangling the story as part of a push against “misinformation and conspiracy theories.”

The story, of course, turned out to be far from invented. Image
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Oh there are a lot of these.
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Mar 5
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If you missed Trump’s address to Congress last night, I wouldn’t rely on media stories to explain it.

Rather than report on a speech viewers found “inspiring,” the corporate press played PR for Democrats.

Wanna know why trust in the press is underwater? Look. ⤵️
A @CBSNews poll of viewers found “A large majority of viewers approve” of Trump’s message, overwhelmingly describing it as “inspiring,” rather than “divisive.”

The speech was certainly partisan - and viewers skewed right.

But the press’s own view appears to slant their takes. Image
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What leads me to claim that? Well, just look at how @CBSNews decided to report on the speech.

They tweeted out that “there was a horribly tense feeling,” and it was “filled with drama.”

Why focus on how their reporter felt, rather than viewers? Image
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Feb 6
Having worked on the Hill I get the ubiquity of Politico Pro and its cost.

But I think it takes an enormous suspension of disbelief to call it a conspiracy theory to look askance at the millions of dollars the Biden admin paid the paper that ran this hatchet job on his opponent. Image
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Which, to be clear, is exactly what outlets like @CNN are doing. Image
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@CNN This from @axios seems particularly unreasonable.

It isn’t a “fake theory” to say that Politico is “funded by the government.” It is, to the tune of $8 million. That isn’t in dispute. Image
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Jan 25
Quick 🧵 revisiting corporate media claims on the Covid lab leak theory then (a “conspiracy theory,” “misinformation,” etc.) vs. now (“okay the CIA even admits it”).

@nytimes then // @nytimes now Image
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@washingtonpost then // now Image
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@USATODAY then // now Image
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Jan 25
Okay quick 🧵 on the bogus claims that ICE went into a school in Chicago to deport students. Starting with @GovPritzker

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@RepMikeQuigley why are you promoting misinformation? Image
@chicagotribune why are you deceiving your readers? Image
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