{"id":1191730,"date":"2022-01-05T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191730"},"modified":"2022-01-05T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:50:44","slug":"critics-hammer-nyt-for-citing-cherry-picked-distorted-examples-of-conservatives-pushing-election-falsehoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critics-hammer-nyt-for-citing-cherry-picked-distorted-examples-of-conservatives-pushing-election-falsehoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics Hammer NYT For Citing \u2018Cherry Picked,\u2019 \u2018Distorted\u2019 Examples Of Conservatives Pushing \u2018Election Falsehoods\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcritics-hammer-nyt-for-citing-cherry-picked-distorted-examples-of-conservatives-pushing-election-falsehoods%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1191730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New York Times drew criticism after using \u201ccherry picked\u201d and \u201cdistorted\u201d examples of conservatives pushing \u201celection falsehoods\u201d to accuse popular commentators of spreading disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The paper published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/04\/technology\/apple-google-spotify-podcast-election-misinformation.html\">article<\/a> by tech reporter Stuart A. Thompson Tuesday under the headline, \u201cElection Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find.\u201d The report cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/techstream\/prominent-political-podcasters-played-key-role-in-spreading-the-big-lie\/\">research<\/a> published by the Brookings Institute that pinned conservative podcasts as the main source of election misinformation and proponents of the so-called \u201cBig Lie\u201d that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, the Times article\u2019s thesis is dubious. It begins:<\/p>\n<p><em>Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold: President Donald J. Trump would be winning that night, but his lead would erode as dubious mail-in ballots arrived, giving Joseph R. Biden Jr. an unlikely edge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo one will believe the outcome because they\u2019ve changed the way we\u2019re electing a president this time,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article leaves out necessary context around Beck\u2019s quote, that the right-wing radio host was commenting on the analysis of a report by the Transition Integrity Project, which \u201cwas launched in late 2019 out of concern that the Trump Administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process.\u201d The report found that in all cases except for a Joe Biden landslide victory, the outcome of the election would be in doubt. Blaze CEO Tyler Carditis pointed the omission out on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyCardon\/status\/1478819658216062978\">Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Read this opening paragraph from New York Times piece about \u201celection falsehoods\u201d that published yesterday. Note the ominous framing. Apparently, on a random day in September, big bad broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for Election Day in a single sentence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the quote they pulled was from a segment in which GB was reacting to a report by the Transition Integrity Project, which got a ton of media coverage largely because it predicted the end of the Republic in all scenarios except a Biden landslide. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Where\u2019s the lie? You need to look no further than the TIP report itself to find support for GB\u2019s \u201cprediction\u201d here. The only difference is that GB is more generous to the Dems by assuming they\u2019d accept a Trump landslide. In the report, this resulted in \u201cconstitutional crisis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carditis also pointed out that multiple prominent Democrats \u2013 such as Rep. Adam Schiff (CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), Rep. Val Demings (FL), and Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) \u2013 spread doubt about the outcome of the 2020 election in the lead-up to Election Day. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who ran in the Democratic primary for president, and then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), now the sitting vice president, also joined in seeding doubt about the legitimacy of a potential Trump win.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For further support, here&#8217;s a montage of prominent politicians expressing sincere concern about the integrity of our elections process before all such concerns were solved by mail-in ballots, relentless sloganeering, and fairy dust. 4\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LCyl6LEtam\">pic.twitter.com\/LCyl6LEtam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Carditis (@TyCardon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyCardon\/status\/1478819695872528387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics hammered The New York Times over the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NYT (and other dusty, legacy media outlets) are desperate to connect every effective dissident voice in today\u2019s media landscape to some flavor of \u2018dangerous misinformation,\u2019 not because it\u2019s true, but because they\u2019re losing influence &amp; want to silence their competition,\u201d Carditis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyCardon\/status\/1478819698380722177\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, added: \u201cI\u2019m shocked, shocked, that a known propaganda rag would continue its campaign of deception against its political opponents. (But seriously, that is awful of them to do.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly why readers need to treat legacy media reporting about \u2018election misinfo\u2019 skeptically. It\u2019s either cherry picked, out of context, distorted or all of the above in 99% of cases,\u201d Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoff Ingersoll <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GPIngersoll\/status\/1478821846430756866\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times drew criticism after using \u201ccherry picked\u201d and \u201cdistorted\u201d examples of conservatives pushing \u201celection falsehoods\u201d to accuse popular commentators of spreading disinformation. The paper published an article by tech reporter Stuart A. Thompson Tuesday under the headline, \u201cElection Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find.\u201d The report cited research published &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}