{"id":1461514,"date":"2022-05-03T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461514"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:14:48","slug":"major-networks-bury-story-on-bidens-new-ministry-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-networks-bury-story-on-bidens-new-ministry-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Networks Bury Story on Biden\u2019s New Ministry of Truth"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmajor-networks-bury-story-on-bidens-new-ministry-of-truth%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=1461514&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><\/div>\n<p>Here at NewsBusters, we\u2019re keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/geoffrey-dickens\/2022\/04\/20\/nets-spend-measly-52-seconds-hunter-laptop-nyt-finally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a continuing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCDickens\/status\/1521127314121281537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">day-by-day watch<\/a> of the network attempts to hide every new detail of the Hunter Biden controversies. It\u2019s time for\u00a0different monitoring alert: \u201cDisinformation Watch.\u201d\u00a0Last Wednesday, it was revealed that the Joe Biden administration has created a \u201cdisinformation\u201d board that will be run by a partisan Democrat. All of this as we ramp up to the midterm elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since last Wednesday, all three network morning and evening newscasts have ignored what some are calling an Orwellian attempt at muzzling free speech. The only exception same on NBC\u2019s Sunday chat show <em>Meet the Press<\/em>. For one minute and 23 seconds, host Chuck Todd ever-so-gently discussed it with Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He kindly tossed Mayorkas this softball: \u201c<strong>I want to ask you about another concept. There is some concern about misinformation and disinformation at the department that you have in DHS. There\u2019s some people that look at it and it looks like policing of speech. Can you explain what this program is about?<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d-style outrage if Donald Trump had done such a thing?\u00a0Todd would be nowhere near as polite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas assured Todd that the new board \u201cdoes not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman tapped to run this board, Nina Jankowicz, is a partisan Democrat who actually engaged in disinformation herself. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/3472471-bidens-mary-poppins-of-disinformation-the-perfect-nanny-to-tidy-up-mess-of-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As <em>The Hill <\/em>reported<\/a> on Saturday:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She has been ridiculed for pushing the false \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d claim about the original reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s infamous laptop, stressing that \u201cwe should view it as a Trump campaign product.\u201d <strong>She continued to spread that disinformation, including tweeting a link to a news article that she said cast \u201cyet more doubt on the provenance of the NY Post\u2019s Hunter Biden story.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jankowicz also peppered her Twitter feed with bizarre moments, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/29\/biden-disinfo-czar-nina-jankowicz-ripped-over-tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when she parodied <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>, singing<\/a>, \u201cInformation laundering is really quite ferocious. It\u2019s when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious, by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet, so disinformation\u2019s origins are slightly less atrocious.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But rather than mention any of that, the timid Todd on Sunday simply asked: \u201cDo you think the person you chose to head it expressed too much politics on their Twitter feed, and it`s caused some consternation?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So here are our totals so far:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Network morning and evening newscast coverage of Orwellian Disinformation board:<\/strong> 0 minutes and 0 seconds<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday chat show total:<\/strong> 1 minute and 23 seconds<\/p>\n<p>To its credit, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kevin-tober\/2022\/05\/01\/cnns-bash-presses-mayorkas-bidens-disinformation-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN on Sunday<\/a> pressed Mayorkas harder. Dana Bash demanded, \u201cRepublicans are calling it Orwellian and comparing it to the ministry of truth in the novel <em>1984<\/em>. Can you clarify what exactly is this? What exactly will this disinformation governance board do? Will it monitor American citizens?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The gentle touch of Chuck Todd on Sunday was sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/conservatives-fight-back\/advertiser\/allstate-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allstate<\/a>. Click on the link to let them know what you think of abetting such stifling of free speech.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A partial transcript is below. Click \u201cexpand\u201d to read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"collapsible\">\n<p><em>Meet the Press<\/em><br \/>5\/1\/2022<br \/>10:51<br \/>1 minute and 23 seconds<\/p>\n<p>CHUCK TODD:<strong> I want to ask you about another concept. There is some concern about misinformation and disinformation at the department that you have in DHS. There\u2019s some people that look at it and it looks like policing of speech. Can you explain what this program is about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MAYORKAS: Sure, so we set up, essentially, an internal working group. And I must say that we could &#8212; we could have done a better job at communicating what it is and what it isn`t. It\u2019s a working group that takes best practices with respect to our work that has been going on for years, best practices on how to do that work, the work of addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the security of our country, how to do that work in a way that does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil liberties. So this working group takes best practices and disseminates it to &#8212; disseminates those best practice to the operators.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: <strong>Do you think the person you chose to head it expressed too much politics on their Twitter feed?\u00a0And it&#8217;s caused some consternation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MAYORKAS: Eminently qualified individual, a recognized expert on battling the threat of disinformation that presents a threat to the security of our homeland, from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at NewsBusters, we\u2019re keeping a continuing, day-by-day watch of the network attempts to hide every new detail of the Hunter Biden controversies. It\u2019s time for\u00a0different monitoring alert: \u201cDisinformation Watch.\u201d\u00a0Last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1461514","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\/1461514","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461514\/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=1461514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}