Republicans now its cover email reads like a call to arms for State controlled news outlets it says it’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies now since when does the White House declare that it’s time for supposedly you know independent
News outlets to attack its political enemies for it it also caused the media to break from the normal news cycle with launching these attacks it says they should not cover the impeachment is just a process story where it states coverage may include Republicans say x but the White House
Says y nope instead of covering the news and showing both sides as you normally would the memo calls for active attacks against house Republican leaders it alleges that Republicans are launching the impeachment inquiry on shoty ground and it alleges that even Republicans don’t seem to believe there’s enough
Evidence to impeach Biden and it provides a detailed road map of instructions uh you know for news outlets on how to challenge the validity of the impeachment inquiry now of course it’s not uncommon for government agencies or even big companies to issue fact cheats when they’re facing accusations you know typically the way
This normally happens they’ll release statements to the press it will often detail their rebuttal as a way of clearing the air journalists often show both sides of the argument even if one side is wrong it’s the nature of reporting it’s the he said she said and when it comes to fact checks well
Journalists will often include analysis and interviews to show which side is telling the truth and which one is not but this White House memo went too far rather than give counterarguments it appears to be instructing news outlets to violate basic standards of Journalism it’s not calling on journalists to just
Report the facts and then provide them you know with facts for their fact checks and so on it’s directly telling them to not take the usual you know Republicans say x but the White House says why approach instead it’s framed as a so-called Call to Arms it instructs
News outlets to go on the offensive against House Republicans on behalf of the White House in fact the memo went too far even for the establishment news outlets it was CNN of all places that actually leaked the email and memo it was made public by CNN media reporter
Oliver Darcy and the backlash on the Biden Administration has been palpable journalist Matthew Keys was widely cited in his criticisms he wrote on X that this is not okay the White House should not be encouraging influencing or interfering in the editorial strategies of America’s newsrooms including CNN and
The New York Times now the White House meanwhile appears to be standing by its approach to avoid the debate on evidence the he said she said and to instead attack the Republican leadership in fact here’s White House Press Secretary Karan Jean Pierre today you know that’s why we
Call it baseless that’s why I just called it basist because they have said themselves that there is no ex evidence there does not the evidence does not exist and this is a political stunt they could not even support their own votes they couldn’t speaker McCarthy could not
Even get support uh for this vote and so I’m going to just leave it there now she’s also accusing Republicans of distracting the government from things that really matter watch and they are distracting from top priorities that we have like fighting the fentol crisis delivering disaster relief and helping
Ukraine fight Russia’s illegal War House Republicans should keep their word and do their job now she’s also accusing Republicans of distracting the government from things that really matter watch and they are distracting from top priorities that we have like fighting the fentol crisis delivering disaster relief and helping Ukraine
Fight Russia’s illegal War House Republicans should keep their word and do their job several establishment news outlets appear to have gotten the memo let’s say many of them barely covered the launch of the impeachment inquiry into President Biden New York Times for example they had one impeachment story
On their front page today now contrast that with how they reacted when Democrats announced their impeachment inquiry into Trump back in September of 2019 this was the New York Times front page when then house Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry into then president Donald Trump the New
York Times dedicated a lot of space on that front page to that topic in fact you can see the lead story there with the headline Pelosi will open formal impeachment inquiry accusing president of betrayal of the nation but today well a comparatively little sliver of space
On the side of the paper you can easily miss it but back to that memo there’s something else that’s important the CNN piece says that the White House memo was sent not to reporters but to the executives of various establishment news outlets in fact among these were CNN the
New York Times Fox News the Associated Press CBS News and others it cites an unnamed White House official on that claim but that raises another serious issue with journalistic Integrity look normally press statements and fact sheets they’re sent to individual reporters normally they’re posted online
Out in the open where the public can see them and at the very most they’re going to be sent to editors or producers who can then provide the materials to the journalists they’re not normally sent to the top Executives of news outlets who are not involved in the actual process
Of researching or covering the news this gives the appearance it’s a directive from the White House to the news outlets themselves and not just a set of arguments for the individual journalists that they can consider when they’re covering the news it ties into one of the big criticisms often lobbed at the
Big corporate media it’s the suspicion that their news coverage is not independent that the power is not in the hands of the journalist and that in instead their coverage tends to have the everpresent hand of top Executives restricting what journalists can say and what they cannot say now if the White
House is in fact informing these talking points coming from the top that’s a big deal well folks that’s it for YouTube for the rest of the episode come join us on Epic TV we have some really important content we have Michael Yan reporting from the Daran Gap in Panama what he’s
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From 160 countries illegally cross the US Mexico border and give themselves up to border patrol but what about the ones who evade border patrol these are known as the Goda ways you can safely assume that anybody that went through the extra effort to avoid US Border Patrol was not
Asylum Seeker by default it may not be today it may not be tomorrow but some we’re done word if somebody rapes and kill somebody and we find out that they came through here on my watch that’s unacceptable these men had surrounded my house they were banging on my back door
They were banging on my front door you can’t understand it unless you’re out here seeing it every day 21 dead bodies on the code respond is it wrong to ask people to come to your front door or your home then why would it be wrong to ask
People to come to the front door of our nation their primary goal is to circumvent the checkpoints go undetected people that do not want to surrender those are going to be the potential terrorists the criminals the real threat to the us we were hoping the federal government would step in and do
Something but they didn’t we have no clue who they are are or where they don’t that’s the scary [Applause] part
