[ April 19, 2024 ]
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper. “Strengthening democracy” is their slogan. No, seriously. Wait it Gets better. The primary reason for the ban is bias. As if the enemedia ie the NY Times, LA Times, CNN, and every other major news outlet isn’t.
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Poynter Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted
Poynter Institute claims on its “About” page that “it champions freedom of expression.” And yet, on another page, Poynter published a list of 515 media sites, including Breitbart News, that it wants blacklisted and shut down.
Poynter calls this list an “index of unreliable news sites” and is openly calling for advertisers to stop sponsoring these sites, to pull their sponsorship, to put these sites out of business.
If that’s not a blacklist, tell me what is [emphasis added]:
Advertisers don’t want to support publishers that might tar their brand with hate speech, falsehoods or some kinds of political messaging — but too often, they have little choice in the matter.
Most ad-tech dashboards make it hard for businesses to prevent their ads from appearing on (and funding) disreputable sites. Marketers can create blacklists, but many of those lists have been out-of-date or incomplete.
Aside from journalists, researchers and news consumers, we hope that the UnNews index will be useful for advertisers that want to stop funding misinformation.
This is straight-up McCarthyism. This is nothing less than the return of the 1950s’ blacklisting crusade against those who hold inappropriate, unacceptable, and unapproved opinions.
And what’s more, the lion’s share of the list cites a single source — “OpenSources,” a list curated by a single Assistant Professor from Merrimack College, Melissa Zimdars (pictured). She is the author of academic papers such as “Watching Our Weights: The Consequences and Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the ‘Obesity Epidemic’” and “Having It Both Ways: ‘Two and a Half Men,’ ‘Entourage’ and the Televising of Juvenile Postfeminist Masculinity.”
What is Zimdars’s methodology? Can’t say, exactly, as the OpenSources official site is totally blank. About two years ago, she gave an interview where she said that one of her criteria for blacklisting a site is “hate” — that is, she still believes the far-left SPLC is a credible organization whose “hate” labels should get you kicked out of public discourse.
Those of you who suddenly approve of blacklisting will argue, “Hey, this is how democracy works! A private company has the right to do or not do business with whoever they want!”
Well, how the hell do you think the 1950s’ blacklist worked? That was nothing more than private companies (movie studios, advertising sponsors) and private individuals (studio heads, producers) deciding all on their own whom they did and did not want to do business with.
Nevertheless, we rightly look back on this dark era with disgust, as an un-American era where people were persecuted and silenced (by private corporations and private individuals) for holding ideas and opinions the powerful establishment did not want shared or discussed.
And now, the 1950s’ blacklist has returned with a vengeance because the establishment media are fighting for advertising dollars and have lost their moral authority and ability to influence public opinion due to outlets like this one and the Media Research Center, Pajamas Media, Washington Examiner, The Daily Wire, The Blaze, Red State, Project Veritas, Newsmax, Zero Hedge, LifeSite, Judicial Watch, Frontpage, The Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller, and the Drudge Report — all of which are on Poynter’s blacklist — exposing their lies and biases, and…
Just as the blacklisters did during the McCarthy era, they are trying to silence us by targeting our advertising sponsors.
Sure, just as some of those people targeted in the 1950s were actual communists looking to do our country harm, there are some legitimate bad faith players on Poynter’s blacklist. But here’s where Poynter’s blacklist gets especially sinister…
There is no one on Poynter’s list of “unreliable news outlets” responsible for spreading the biggest, most irresponsible and dangerous lies of the last half-decade — lies that have caused race riots and destroyed innocent lives.
In other words, the outlets Poynter does not want blacklisted are every bit as revealing as those Poynter does want blacklisted.
There is simply no question that for over five years, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC, MSNBC, Politico, BuzzFeed, etc., have relentlessly and deliberately misled the American people on the biggest stories of the day…
- The Trayvon Martin Hoax
- The Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
- Donald Trump Can’t Win
- The Russia Collusion Hoax
- The Brett Kavanaugh Serial Rapist Hoax
- The Covington High School Boys Hoax
And yet, every outlet I listed above that are part of Poynter’s blacklist either got these stories 100 percent correct, as Breitbart News did, or was at least skeptical of them.
But we are the ones these so-called “champions of free expression” are openly calling to be blacklisted, not those who have relentlessly and deliberately lied to the public for more than a half-decade.
Which proves this is not a blacklist targeting the unreliable, but a blacklist targeting those who hold ideas the un-American Poynter finds inappropriate and unacceptable.
How else to explain why Poynter wants the Media Research Center blacklisted for bias but not Media Matters?
The Poynter Institute is nothing less than a non-profit version of Joseph McCarthy, Father Coughlin, and Big Brother.
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35 Comments
4 years ago
The NYT should be your primary source for propaganda.
As evil proliferates, you will be sheltered from it.
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4 years ago
The NYT should be your primary source for propaganda.
As evil proliferates, you will be sheltered from it.
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4 years ago
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The Verona transcript proved Sen. McCarthy spoke the truth. What happened with the Hollywood commies in the 1948 CONGRESSIONAL hearings was that they got jobs under different names and they did their own blacklist against the patriots who testified against them. Morrie Ryskind had more work than he could handle until he was a friendly witness for Rep. Parnell. After that, he never got work again. Actor Adolf Menjou was smeared as an antisemite. The only reason that friendly witness, Ayn Rand, did not get hit with this reverse blacklist was because she was under contract to Hall Wallis and could not be fired at the time. Also, sag President, Ronald Reagan, slept with a pistol under his pillow during that tumultuous time.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Salve pace to the Geller report, but it just occurred to me that what The Geller Report, Breitbart etal are suffering from the reverse blacklist that I pointed out happened to the friendly witnesses against the Hollywood commies in 1948. Back then, the Commies in Hollywood lost some of their influence (the “Torn Curtain” movie with Dana Andrews, The Geller Report showed Saturday night, could never have been made if those Hollywood Commies were still official screenwriters). Today, Donald Trump iss president and today’s neo Communists kings of our culture are again conducting their reverse blacklist with their persecution of The Geller Report, The Daily Caller; etc. The neo Commies, in charge of our culture, are enraged that Pres. Trump is elected and they are taking their wrath out on these truth telling sites.
4 years ago
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Good one, Felix; those whose sole news source is the MSM or some quasi-Democratic, Leftist forum is a significant concern. I reiterate that which I have said over and over; the Left of all persuasions, perceive themselves as the elite, the intelligentsia, more so superhuman, akin to Nazism. Most are mere dullards led about by but a few who are the intelligentsia. These said dullards are looking for meaning in a somewhat meaningless life; hence, the appeal for revolution, to tear down the establishment and replace it with a Collectivist Nirvana. Listen to Bernie’s endorsing breadlines and endorse the likes of Cuba and other Third World crap-holes.
Bernie Sanders is one of the numerous Democrats whose ambition is to spin this Republic into Globalist-Collectivist shat-hole. It is not only America under threat but we, thus far, have hope because of Trump. G-d helps us if Comrade Bernie or any Democrats win the presidency.
4 years ago
The reason those news outlets need to be censored and banned is because they are effective in telling the TRUTH!
Later McCarthy was vindicated through many books. Here’s one ->
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism Hardcover
June 24, 2003
by Ann Coulter
…
“The myth of ‘McCarthyism’ is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie.”
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4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
McCarthy was not amiss in his attacks of the established Communists within this nation and others. Hollywood was and remains to this day a breeding cesspool for Communism, not only aspirant actors but wannabe Bolsheviks. The so-called institution of education where the profs, entire faculties, and administrators are ingrained with Marxist ideology. The Left, the media, the Democrats, held Josef Stalin, Uncle Joe in the highest of esteem; they continue revering this murderous tyrant, despot to this very day. It is not merely Islam that is gutting this Republic from the inside out; the Democrats are as much parasitical as they.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
I’m sure Hollywood actors like Sean Penn love Communism — as long as they’re members of the Politburo rather than the legion of oppressed, impoverished proles. It’s always a case of champagne, caviar, chauffeur driven limos, servants and mansions for the Politburo and bread lines, vodka and public transportation for the proles.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
You are absolutely right, MuhamMud. The politburo that would maintain its access to Rodeo Drive, as well other consumer goods and services denied the proletariat. The irony is, Penn and other Hollywood or political, Marxist elitists are a caricature of the Bolsheviks. Most would end up, in the end, with a bullet at the base of the skull.
It boggles the shallow, vacuity of these self-anointed Bolsheviks or wannabe revolutionaries. Their pretentious sense of intellectual superiority is more ironic, as most are base sheeple merely dullards duped by the conjured mythology some call Marxism. If that makes any sense; as the old mind is a wee unglued.
4 years ago
here their analysis of Pamela.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/geller-report/
4 years ago
The only good thing you can say about this index is that it goes so far overboard it will never be taken seriously. These 515 sites all have followers, tens or even hundreds of millions in total, so that is where the clout is now. You can always count on the left to go from somewhat plausible, to absurd, in a very short time.
4 years ago
Reply to
heat wave
Exactly. They blacklisted all outlets where I get my news from. Their value just went up in my eyes.
4 years ago
Sue them.They have deep pockets. You could use the money for your NGO and actually help Muslim women escape slavery!
4 years ago
I’d say the claim you are “unreliable” is false, malicious, reckless and defamatory on its face…also designed to restrict competition, since Poynter owns newspapers and has competing websites, so perhaps a Sherman Antitrust Act violation as well (especially if discovery reveals coordination with other mainstream media outlets). This could be like the 1948 Paramount case that broke up the studio system, if you have some good hungry lawyers…do good and do well at the same time. Do nothing and they will snuff you out…
4 years ago
State of Florida might also investigate abuses of NGO status by Poynter, since it is incorporated in that state, I believe…someone could strictly scrutinize their operations under applicable statutes to see what they might have violated. Seem more like Nazis to me than Joe McCarthy because there really were Communists–but your site is not “unreliable.” Adelson or Peter Thiel needs to finance a legal challenge ASAP.
4 years ago
Poynter Inst. is also the umbrella for Politifact, which in this case is a one word oxymoron.
4 years ago
Once again, the witch hunt is accelerating. The totalitarian left in America and worldwide is hell-bent on the eradication of Freedom of Speech of the Press, with the exception, needless to say, those of the Totalitarian Fascist-Left. The sinister, self-righteous Liberals, Democrats and numerous others have striven for decades to nullify one’s individual rights and liberties. Since the crowning of the new Messiah, Obama, the effort to do so has become expeditious on the part of the aspirant Leftist’s autocratic agenda.
Those, of the Leftist-Bolshevik Party, whinge endlessly about McCarthyism; it is discernible, the old double standard of Liberalism’s totalitarian bent remains unchanged but more importantly unchallenged by the gutless, and gormless a-wipes who represent ‘We the People.’ Nor does it only affect this Republic, it is a worldwide movement whose ultimate objective is a Globalist Totalitarianism, the New World Order.
4 years ago
When you are attacked by the Nazi/Marxist/Islamic alliance, you don’t call the cops ! You pick up your weapon and kill them !
4 years ago
Reply to
Emmett
no wonder gellerreport.com is sinking … the audience are violent idiots like you
4 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
no wonder gellerreport readership has tripled over the past two years … it’s SO much fun to laugh AT moslems and how ALL moslem males are homosexuals.
4 years ago
The Leftists are rabid… they are doing a full on press against the 1A and 2A!!! I suppose they think they can continue to get away with their shenanigans because they seem to be able to continue them without impunity. But at some point, i.e. once they silence conservative groups and put sanctions in place against firearms manufacturers and advocacy groups then there will be one choice left… for us on the Right that is… and that is civil war. Their fascist antics will not end well. They may think they are on moral grounds but if this is their morality that they want to shove onto us then we can use our morality (which has a basis) to fight back.
At some point, what they are doing is no longer part of the democratic process and falls into criminal behavior because it is seditious. It seems to me we are already there. It clearly goes against the spirit of the 1st and 2nd amendments making them fundamentally against our core values. It’s sad to think we need a law that says such shenanigans are unlawful. But either the politicians on the right circumvent this bad behavior or this will result in a fight because there will be no other alternative.
The Left’s win “By Any Means Necessary” approach and their getting away with this is bad for our country. The Left blames the Right of a lack of civility but if this is the civility they are talking about then the right will use the means necessary to fight back.
4 years ago
Nooooooo, NOT GELLER. She is NOT politically correct like the other “Mitt Romney” type conservative sites and I like that a lot.
NO COWARDICE! NO PHONIES!! NO BULLSHEET!
4 years ago
The strategy for pretending to be for freedom of expression, when you’re against it, and for Democracy when you are also against it, is one that is commonly used by the left.
4 years ago
Drudge Report has been leaning Left for months using sources like NBC, AP, MSN, Reuters and others, it makes no difference Matt, once they hate you they will always cut you down, why cow tow?
4 years ago
as one increases their power,the more paranoid they become of others who they think are trying to limit,or take away their power. hence, the purge. next, the gulag, or the wall, or both.
4 years ago
Check out http://www.bittube.com This is a new search engine and platform dedicated to free speech. They purport to pay you for viewing their ads and you can donate these funds to your favorite sites. If this works like its advertised and millions like the idea of being paid modestly for their ad viewing then this solves the Facebook, Google and other problems the best way possible.We simply have a new and better product.
4 years ago
Shouldn’t every single MSM in the US be at the top of that list?
4 years ago
Hushed issues, immigration (etc) propaganda, censorship and so on – the MS media is simply unreliable. And the Poynter Institute for Media Studies is just a propaganda school. The Poynter is lying.
BBC journalist Laura Kuenssberg
4 years ago
Hey Poynter, P.O.I., the truth will set you free, SCUMBAGS.
4 years ago
Journalism is dead. They use to report the news. But now, they create/invent and shape the news. Also known as propaganda. However, they don’t look at themselves as propagandists, but as do-gooder activists. Which isn’t right either.
4 years ago
(((Shut It Down)))
