Today is the six-year anniversary of the Access Hollywood “pussy" tape. As I do every year, I will be live-tweeting the events of that day as they occurred. It was a beautiful, crisp autumn day. Not a cloud in the sky. It was one month until voting day for the 2016 election. It was a normal Friday. I was traveling with the President of the United States.

CBS News president Neeraj Khemlani said in a meeting that he hired Republicans like Mick Mulvaney to lie on air so CBS gets “access” to the GOP because they’re going to win the midterms

Now that CBS itself has polls showing the GOP lead shrinking why is Mulvaney still employed The meeting was recorded and shows the top journalists at CBS News saying how much they want to give their platform to Republicans like Kevin McCarthy

This article validates every “lock her up” Republican plainly acting in bad faith today by repeating a bullshit talking point and even states in Serious Newsvoice that the raid “drew the ire of conservatives who decried the search as an abuse of power” in service of that bullshit

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1557313361762828295

When the archaic Both Sides model of journalism is applied to a political system in which one party is fascist and spreading misinformation as a strategy then the very practice of that type of journalism itself is an endorsement of that misinformation rather than a block on it

The extremely simple reason that the news media is covering “Doors Killed The Kids” seriously is because the news media is Republican

https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1531855317159526401

If your article quotes Ted Cruz without noting that Ted Cruz lied and continues to lie about the 2020 election then is it journalism or is it the top story in the Ted Cruz Newsletter Presented By Ted Cruz

Journalists will cover shit like this if you fucking do it

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1529523791595982852

journalists go to press conferences wondering “what will the newsiest thing be” and if someone with a Title Before Their Name interrupts it then their squirrel brain will go “wow that’s the lede!” and they spell “lead” like that even in their head because they think it’s so cool

The media is scolding the left for protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, but the media is rewarding the white supremacists who literally chanted "hang Mike Pence" by giving them access and legitimacy on major news platforms every day to help them erase January 6

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1523486901960798209

Calling a white nationalist who spread misinformation to millions of people and tried to execute public officials to overthrow the government a “protester” is objectively a lie, but because Republicans run news networks this is not just accepted but heavily encouraged

The NYT quotes Roger Stone praising Trump without mentioning Trump pardoned him after Stone was convicted of *making false statements*, obstruction and witness tampering in the Mueller investigation

Roger Stone is just a regular, credible guy because the media loves Republicans There’s forgetting to include a detail like the color of Roger Stone’s hat and then there’s deliberately omitting the most critical event in a person’s professional life when it was *literally about lying to protect Trump and getting away with it*—@ShaneGoldmacher what happened?

Politico, which hired Ben Shapiro to write Playbook, is now paying Trump mouthpiece Sarah Isgur to lie about voter suppression laws

For the “it could never happen here” crowd, this is exactly what fascist propaganda looks like in the US ABC pays Sarah Isgur as a contributor to spread misinformation on its Sunday show, @ThisWeekABC

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1409164214892105732

Zero elected Democrats have been invited on the network Sunday shows this weekend

These programs remain a sanctuary for Republicans to spread misinformation while Democrats are denied a chance to respond CBS News just hired Trump loyalist Mick Mulvaney and falsely identified him as a journalist this week

CBS News has also banned Democrats from appearing on @FaceTheNation for three weeks now. Only Republicans are allowed on to spread false talking points

https://twitter.com/mattnegrin/status/1508046232740151298

CBS News is hiring Trump officials and falsely identifying them as journalists

https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1508776474198818824

“You’re the guy to ask about this” - a news network that has fully abandoned the pretense that it is objective

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

https://twitter.com/mattnegrin/status/1505590013500833803

Josh Hawley smeared Ketanji Brown Jackson with a Qanon lie to get her name in headlines with "child porn"

Hawley—a Jan. 6 organizer who told the Big Lie—should have no credibility. But the media gave it to him, framing his lie as "Republicans pointed to her record on child porn" The news media is helping Josh Hawley spread this Qanon lie by treating it as a credible claim

Worse, the media is helping Hawley erase his role as a Big Liar who supported the January 6 insurrectionists. His credibility is never mentioned in coverage of his child porn lie

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" Literally all this guy does is talk to people who tried to overturn the election — a thing he *fucking agrees should have happened* — and write about them like they're fucking wisdom-bursting cherubs

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 The network Sunday shows, led overwhelmingly by @FaceTheNation, are responsible for spreading misinformation to millions of people every week by inviting insurrectionists and proven liars onto their platforms, refusing to allow Democrats to respond, and not challenging their lies

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

https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1505182365664133120

We live in a constant state of right-wing propaganda because modern American journalism exists to embolden autocrats and fascism in almost every form

https://twitter.com/mattnegrin/status/1500820052454559753

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

https://twitter.com/jenhab/status/1501599494172991498

“January 6th never happened” is the position of every reporter who quotes Kevin McCarthy without mentioning his leading role in the largest misinformation campaign in modern U.S. history

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?

https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1498419819061858311

I hold powerful people accountable, that’s why every night I put my head in the microwave to melt the part of my brain that retains memories so the next morning I can ask Kevin McCarthy if he has any thoughts on the news of the day that I can relay to the public for him

On May 16 Reuters published a Russian propaganda video of Putin scoring hockey goals. The game was fake so Putin could win

Today Reuters published a Russian propaganda video of tanks in snowy Kyiv despite reports that it’s not snowing

This is how US media helps push propaganda Some critics like to use the phrase “the media is failing you” but in this case the media is not failing. It’s doing exactly as it’s intended: to help people in power promote the content they want you to see. If you think journalism is about accountability you’re a professor

Today @chucktodd put two Republicans — Peggy Noonan and Bush/Trump ambassador Bill Taylor — on his “panel of journalists” while refusing to invite any Democrats

The other panelists were 3 journalists from the Washington Post, PBS, and NBC

@MeetThePress is a right-wing program It’s pretty fucking incredible that this happens all the time and nobody says a goddamn word

https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1439615491174141965

On January 6th you were told “history will remember”

Jim Hagedorn voted to overturn the election on that day. His Washington Post obituary — a collection of significant events of a person’s life — doesn’t mention this and erases this fact from history

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1494671565530841091

The entirety of this obituary is below. According to the @washingtonpost the only thing you need to know about what he did in Congress is that he “served on the Agriculture and Small Business Committees.”

This is the clearest validation and signal of success for the right wing’s 2-year pro-covid misinformation campaign. A solid majority of *everyone* - not just Republicans - believes covid should take over as the media uses covid’s preferred language: people are “ready to move on”

https://twitter.com/npr/status/1494265649459347461

From the very beginning our media elevated this campaign. When Trump and Kayleigh McEnany said covid was a hoax, the flu, or that masks don’t work, the media aired their misinformation briefings live, every day. @jonkarl even congratulated McEnany and said “welcome to the podium”