{"id":1456354,"date":"2022-04-28T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456354"},"modified":"2022-04-28T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:48:08","slug":"by-hiring-cbs-reporter-kate-smith-planned-parenthood-brings-propaganda-production-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-hiring-cbs-reporter-kate-smith-planned-parenthood-brings-propaganda-production-in-house\/","title":{"rendered":"By Hiring CBS Reporter Kate Smith, Planned Parenthood Brings Propaganda Production In-House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fby-hiring-cbs-reporter-kate-smith-planned-parenthood-brings-propaganda-production-in-house%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=1456354&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-27-at-2.27.43-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After years of pretending to report on the nation\u2019s largest and wealthiest abortion provider, former CBS reporter Kate Smith is now going to work for it. On Monday, Smith proudly announced her new position as the senior director of news content at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"4m9PAiYkxBogntiH8pdXlfcryrCja0kg5Oa7QmJHUOcfdZlGjwvb35DAh7PKJC2eZML11zvNbNM4zWVqhISB\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2728 personal news \u2728<\/p>\n<p>Thrilled to be joining Planned Parenthood full-time on this exciting new project. Much, much more to come. Stay tuned! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xwv5eue0FH\">pic.twitter.com\/Xwv5eue0FH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kate Smith (@byKateSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byKateSmith\/status\/1518662041594118144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During her time at CBS, Smith described her beat as covering \u201cabortion access,\u201d an obvious giveaway of her pro-abortion stance while posing as an objective reporter. Smith\u2019s coverage of \u201cabortion access\u201d primarily focused on running puff pieces for Planned Parenthood, including softball interviews with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-alexis-mcgill-johnson-planned-parenthood-acting-president-sits-for-cbs-news-interview-exclusive\/\">executives<\/a>, publicizing their PR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-45-million-we-decide-2020-elections-investment-today\/\">campaigns<\/a>, glamorous tours of their new, state-of-the-art abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-mega-clinic-to-open-in-illinois-response-to-restrictive-abortion-laws-exclusive-2019-10-02\/\">facilities<\/a>, and of course their legal battles against pro-life legislation. <\/p>\n<p>Her \u201creporting,\u201d such as her 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-lawsuit-missouri-heartbeat-bill-eight-week-abortion-ban-live-updates-exclusive\/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h\">coverage<\/a> of Planned Parenthood\u2019s lawsuit against Missouri\u2019s heartbeat bill, often failed to include interviews of a single pro-life lawmaker or individual. Conversely, she often omitted inconvenient facts about abortion providers and gave a megaphone to pro-abortion groups like NARAL to spin their propaganda.  <\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Smith announced she was leaving CBS. Now, free of her objective facade, she could finally share her \u201cown opinions on reproductive rights,\u201d she tweeted, as if she had previously held those opinions close to her chest. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"5B1NX7TSmKVdb9ZWrLM264hUoNamjuCcy4OCiOevLpU2p0zw8snqZABRtYrPJbI63kkwllKxEEV5DDzvf7yScRhIeoF\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that I\u2019m not a reporter I can be candid about my own opinions on reproductive rights. I\u2019ll say this: With or without Roe v Wade access to abortion is disappearing across the South and Midwest for low income women. And it\u2019s happening more or less under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kate Smith (@byKateSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byKateSmith\/status\/1415672528819814400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>All this to say, Planned Parenthood\u2019s hiring of Smith is unsurprising. It\u2019s certainly a bad look for her CBS colleagues and corporate journalists everywhere, especially so-called media reporters who didn\u2019t make a peep about the optics of Smith\u2019s announcement Monday, but not surprising. <\/p>\n<p>If anything, it\u2019s only surprising that Planned Parenthood would see the value in hiring someone who is much more useful carrying water for them in the allegedly unbiased corporate media, and on CBS\u2019s dime. It\u2019s safe to assume other corporate journalists will continue to work the PPFA propaganda beat, but what use does an abortion provider have for a \u201cdirector of news content\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, Smith tweeted that out too. She will be leading a team to \u201cdevelop expert-informed news content to combat abortion stigma and health misinformation.\u201d Essentially, they are moving the propaganda production in-house.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s more on the project I\u2019ll be leading at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPFA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PPFA<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PPact<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0UaLl2n6yR\">pic.twitter.com\/0UaLl2n6yR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kate Smith (@byKateSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/byKateSmith\/status\/1518984670410641410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Americans\u2019 distrust in corporate media makes media coverage so utterly worthless thanks to journalists like Smith, that it\u2019s more efficient for Planned Parenthood to create and curate their own abortion misinformation rather than the old way of feeding it to pro-abortion journalists. Rather than doing all the behind-the-scenes legwork to get Smith to peddle their talking points on \u201cCBS This Morning,\u201d only to have Americans tune out, it\u2019s more cost-effective to just pay Smith to peddle the propaganda direct-to-consumer. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily, they found the right woman for the job. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Madeline Osburn is managing editor at The Federalist. Contact her at madeline@thefederalist.com or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madelineorr\">follow her on Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of pretending to report on the nation\u2019s largest and wealthiest abortion provider, former CBS reporter Kate Smith is now going to work for it. On Monday, Smith proudly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456354","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\/1456354","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\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456354\/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=1456354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}