{"id":1842556,"date":"2023-02-10T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842556"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T19:06:04","slug":"anonymous-sources-are-how-corporate-media-launder-smear-operations-as-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anonymous-sources-are-how-corporate-media-launder-smear-operations-as-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Anonymous Sources\u2019 Are How Corporate Media Launder Smear Operations As News"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fanonymous-sources-are-how-corporate-media-launder-smear-operations-as-news%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=1842556&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-->\n<p>Anonymous sources were not used in journalism at one time. They would only be cited when trying to preserve someone\u2019s physical safety or report on the most sensitive national security matters, and there was an expectation that such unusual sourcing be reviewed by editors and carefully corroborated whenever possible. <\/p>\n<p>Now anonymous sourcing has become the norm in reporting and is frequently used as a political weapon to disseminate Democrats\u2019 talking points and smear their enemies. The illicit use of anonymous sources to launch libel against Democrats\u2019 enemies ballooned after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, and the tactic was used to develop the Russia-collusion hoax and multiple other smears. <\/p>\n<p>Recent examples include the Chinese spy-bomber news cycle. Public outrage erupted when it was revealed that Red China had spent several days hovering above the United States, collecting sensitive information. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/shoot-down-republicans-chinese-spy-balloon-sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There are many governors and legislators<\/a> Trump demanded that President Joe Biden be elected <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/109800792959163239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Take the balloon down<\/a> Get it done as soon as you can. <\/p>\n<p>Biden refused to accept this claim, claiming that neutralizing airborne threats could result in civilian harm. This claim was made in corporate media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/china-spy-balloon-pentagon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An anonymous \u201cofficial\u201d<\/a> Whoever said so, did not provide any evidence. \u201cthe balloon did not pose a military or physical threat\u201d United States This decision is again a success. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/news\/nat-issues-spy-balloon-0207\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans were furious<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration was furious when the administration finally shot down the balloon above the Atlantic. Unnamed officials at the Department of Defense were allegedly involved in this incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/3288618\/senior-defense-official-and-senior-military-official-hold-an-off-camera-on-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An off-camera press conference briefing was held.<\/a> This one is from China. \u201ctransited the continental United States briefly at least three times during the prior administration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This admission sparked a media frenzy in corporate media. The press took the Pentagon\u2019s word for it and accused Republicans of a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hmi8ocRWgO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdouble standard.\u201d<\/a> The balloon would not go up without those who called for it to be blown out. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3816936-white-house-charges-gop-with-hypocrisy-on-trump-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Press claimed<\/a>Trump and others were even more hypocrites because they were also hypocrites <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/02\/07\/china-spy-balloons-intelligence-trump-didnt-shoot-down-3-times-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfailed\u201d<\/a> to take down spy equipment in the office<\/p>\n<p>Trump and several Trump national-security officials at high levels were briefed about security breaches during their tenure less than a week later. <em>The record<\/em>They have their names behind their statements to deny any knowledge of Chinese spy satellites monitoring the United States. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,\u201d Mark Esper, the defense secretary, was in office from 2019 to 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/05\/politics\/chinese-spy-balloons-trump-administration\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Christopher Miller was the acting defense secretary between 2020 and 2021. \u201cthe first time I ever heard of anything like this was this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad not a clue,\u201d Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxxv.com\/news\/in-depth\/exclusive-ex-president-trumps-secretary-of-defense-had-not-a-clue-about-chinese-spy-balloons?_amp=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>. \u201cIf something like that had happened, that\u2019s like a national security threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly never became aware that there was a three-bus-sized floating device coming across our country for five days, either as CIA director or secretary of state. [And] I\u2019ve talked to others who are on my teams \u2014 they don\u2019t know anything about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened with the Russia hoax, it happened all during Trump&#8217;s time in the White House, and it happened again with the Chinese spy balloon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1842559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10728,6079,18310,4188,4133,7229,14989,6409],"class_list":["post-1842556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-anonymous","tag-corporate","tag-launder","tag-media","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-smear","tag-sources"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842556","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}