{"id":1517009,"date":"2022-06-15T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517009"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:05:18","slug":"republicans-look-to-florida-for-a-lesson-in-dealing-with-the-corrupt-corporate-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-look-to-florida-for-a-lesson-in-dealing-with-the-corrupt-corporate-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans, Look To Florida For A Lesson In Dealing With The Corrupt Corporate Media"},"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%2Frepublicans-look-to-florida-for-a-lesson-in-dealing-with-the-corrupt-corporate-media%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=1517009&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 corporate media has a clear left-wing agenda, and the faster Republicans acknowledge that the better they will become at skillfully calling out media activists and their Democrat-informed narratives. An example out of Florida this week is a perfect lesson in how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis an expert in dishing out cheeky responses to journos during press conferences and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/ron-desantis-gives-master-class-on-how-to-respond-to-propaganda-press-over-dem-hoaxes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exposing the corporate media\u2019s hoaxing<\/a>, but other bureaucrats in the Floridian\u2019s administration have also taken hints from the state leader and begun to tactfully reject the press\u2019s deceitful advances. <\/p>\n<p>Just this week, a New Yorker \u201cfact-checker\u201d reached out to the Florida Department of Health demanding an on-background call. When the department\u2019s press secretary Jeremy Redfern requested that the journalist put her questions in writing, the corporate media employee responded with snark and demanded to speak with someone else. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that speaking with a fact-checker on background to better understand publicly available data is an important and necessary function of the Florida Health Department,\u201d she wrote in correspondence with Redfern. \u201cIs there someone else I can speak with to answer my questions?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.46-AM-1024x921-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.46-AM-1024x921-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.46-AM-300x270-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.46-AM-768x691-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.46-AM.png 1194w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Cue the takedown. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a \u2018fact-checker\u2019 does not grant you any special privileges. If anything, that makes me more inclined to get a written record of what you are looking for, as the \u2018fact-checking\u2019 industry gets the \u2018facts\u2019 wrong on a regular basis. Someone has to be here to fact-check the fact-checkers,\u201d Redfern replied, adding, \u201cThis isn\u2019t a \u2018can I speak to your manager\u2019 type of situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.38-AM-1024x777-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.38-AM-1024x777-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.38-AM-300x228-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.38-AM-768x583-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.38-AM.png 1188w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Redfern rejected the journo\u2019s premise that media \u201cfact-checkers\u201d are somehow entitled to certain privileges when they demand Republicans\u2019 attention because he knows the media aren\u2019t trustworthy enough to have earned it. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfact-checking\u201d industry is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/13\/facebook-quietly-admits-its-third-party-fact-checks-are-opinions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shady arrangement<\/a> between Big Tech and leftist corporate media outlets to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/31\/corporate-medias-obsession-with-fact-checking-is-a-mission-to-monopolize-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corrupt, partisan spin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/15\/ceo-of-fact-checking-website-snopes-suspended-for-lying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">written by liars<\/a>. Fact-checkers have masked the truth about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/07\/corrupt-corporate-media-spreads-disinformation-on-ivermectin-patients-overwhelming-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/21\/politifact-quietly-retracts-fact-check-of-covid-19-wuhan-lab-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wuhan lab<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/23\/facebook-targets-the-federalist-with-myopic-fact-check-on-green-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">green energy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/16\/nevertrump-website-the-dispatch-colludes-with-big-tech-to-censor-sba-lists-pro-life-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion<\/a>, and they even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/23\/racist-washington-post-fact-check-calls-black-senator-privileged-for-family-history-of-picking-cotton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">twisted a black Senator\u2019s family history<\/a>, so why on Earth should a health department that was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/06\/desantis-eviscerates-corrupt-corporate-media-as-lying-smear-merchants-for-cbs-hit-piece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly targeted<\/a> by the media, Twitter, and Facebook\u2019s censorship scheming during the peak of the pandemic suddenly trust a self-professed \u201cfact-checker\u201d to accurately represent their interests now? <\/p>\n<p>They shouldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>The default assumption among Republican officials and bureaucrats should always be that the corporate media is hostile and acting in bad faith because they are. And <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/corrupt-corporate-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history proves that<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The media will try to use the \u201ccan I speak to your manager\u201d pressure to bully conservatives and Republican-run organizations into giving them enough information they can use against them, but anyone associated with the right should never even give them a chance<\/p>\n<p>Yet another thing Redfern got right in his exchange with The New Yorker was that he insisted on emailed questions that could be easily preserved and recorded. <\/p>\n<p>Why? DeSantis\u2019s snappy spokeswoman explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1536737877580816386?s=20&#038;t=dK3htynCFcH68mo2SVVpog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reply<\/a> to Redfern\u2019s post that this written record stops the corrupt media from lying about the information you did or didn\u2019t give them, which they have done <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/16\/5-other-totally-bogus-stories-designed-to-hurt-trump-the-media-got-away-with\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/06\/democracy-dies-at-the-hands-of-taylor-lorenz-and-every-other-bad-hire-at-the-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/14\/how-a-string-of-deceptively-edited-videos-highlight-the-medias-misinformation-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly! Not only is it the smartest way to deal with media activists, to get everything in writing so there is a paper trail \u2014 but also, in Florida, the Sunshine Laws mean that journalists\u2019 communications with state employees are public records,\u201d she tweeted. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.06-AM-1024x527-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.06-AM-1024x527-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.06-AM-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.06-AM-768x395-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-15-at-7.13.06-AM.png 1186w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Having a paper trail prevents the corporate media from claiming things that didn\u2019t actually happen. Or by omitting important, contextual information. <\/p>\n<p>When the media wants to talk, all evidence of their deceitful practices suggests you should just ignore them. If you do choose to give them your time, do it wisely. Set measurable parameters for the conversation. Know they have a narrative, and it\u2019s your job to sniff it out and squash it. And always remember their reputation. If dishonest journos act up, pull a Donald Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/lesley-youve-discredited-yourself-trump-posts-full-60-minutes-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">walk out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corporate media has a clear left-wing agenda, and the faster Republicans acknowledge that the better they will become at skillfully calling out media activists and their Democrat-informed narratives. 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