{"id":2272650,"date":"2024-06-20T14:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/press-panics-over-publics-ability-to-see-through-activist-narratives\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:32:19","slug":"press-panics-over-publics-ability-to-see-through-activist-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/press-panics-over-publics-ability-to-see-through-activist-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Alarmed by Public&#8217;s Insight into Activist Agendas"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpress-panics-over-publics-ability-to-see-through-activist-narratives%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=2272650&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 article discusses how the\u200d political press, including outlets like NBC, is criticized \u200cfor attempting to discredit claims about President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline. The \u200barticle \u200bmentions various instances where\u200d Biden appeared to be \u200bdisoriented or spoke incoherently, which have been\u2062 highlighted by \u200cconservative \u200dmedia and influencers through\u200c various videos. Despite these claims, NBC and other mainstream media outlets argue that these videos are deceptive or \u200ctaken out of context. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has labeled some \u2064of these videos as \u201ccheap\u2064 fakes,\u201d encouraging viewers to scrutinize them more carefully. The article\u2062 also highlights criticism of the mainstream\u200d media&#8217;s history\u2062 of misinformation on other topics and notes the efforts by some fact-checkers, like those from The Washington Post and The \u200dAssociated Press, to present alternative narratives that also face scrutiny for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayers-funding-research-on-how-to-stealthily-censor-people-for-spreading-misinformation\/\" title=\"Taxpayers funding research on covert censorship for combating 'misinformation'.\">potentially misleading content<\/a>. In \u2063essence, the article\u2063 portrays a\u200d divide\u200c over the portrayal of Biden&#8217;s mental state, with accusations \u200cof media bias and misinformation\u2063 from both sides.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The political press is getting paranoid about the public\u2019s ability to decipher reality from the activist narratives peddled by partisan reporters.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, NBC piled on to the gaslighting commentary from the White House and legacy media with aims to discredit observations of President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">obvious cognitive decline<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-261208842\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d3dc098945d96494b31dd5d38e9c63a3 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d3dc098945d96494b31dd5d38e9c63a3\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMisleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weak-government-complicit-media-silicon-valley-are-torching-america\/\" title=\"Weak Government, Complicit Media, Silicon Valley Are Torching America\">fact-checks<\/a> have trouble keeping up,\u201d headlined NBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/misleading-gop-videos-biden-viral-fact-checks-rcna133316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporting<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican National Committee, major conservative media outlets and right-wing influencers have succeeded in blasting out videos that they claim show \u2018proof\u2019 of Biden\u2019s wandering off, freezing up or even filling his pants with a substance commonly represented by a brown swirl emoji,\u201d NBC reported. \u201cIndependent fact-checkers and the Biden campaign have pointed out that the videos, while they are un-doctored by artificial intelligence, tend to crumble under even basic scrutiny, such as when the moments are viewed in context or from wider camera angles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/karine-jean-pierre-slammed-claiming-biden-videos-deepfakes-dont-believe-your-lying-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> reporters Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teenage-tiktok-star-whose-ex-cop-dad-shot-teenage-stalker-has-stalking-case-against-another-teenager-thrown-out-of-court\/\" title=\"Teenage TikTok Star Whose Ex-Cop Dad Shot Teenage Stalker Has Stalking Case Against Another Teenager Thrown Out Of Court\">viral videos showing<\/a> the commander-in-chief in decline were \u201ccheap fakes.\u201d Of course, Americans can simply <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/white-house-shamelessly-claims-video-of-biden-clearly-freezing-up-onstage-is-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watch<\/a> for themselves as their geriatric president awkwardly froze up and blankly stared before former President Barack Obama led him off a stage over the weekend. Americans have also been able to hear the president mumble incoherently in speeches even before he was elected.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"JACz68h5PYvBaUnTuRW1L2qKXmlIErVD9Ng4SeMi3fck\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ll lead an effective strategy to mobilize trunalimunumapshuere under pressure!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And haters say Joe Biden has no strategy\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1VdAGEscsC\">pic.twitter.com\/1VdAGEscsC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jillian Anderson (@Jillie_Alexis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jillie_Alexis\/status\/1322330920163135489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And yet the same press that lied to Americans about the origins of Covid, the Russia collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop, and inflation as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/14\/stuff-your-sorries-in-a-sack-janet-yellen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transitory<\/a>\u201d is incredulous over the 81-year-old president\u2019s demonstrable deterioration on the world stage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7d642b79132c4c12768860a1c9d94440 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7d642b79132c4c12768860a1c9d94440\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"qR9GvQroVbU2SLpCxGQFlfkNneIIuJ3HhNkg87XefivWw7KJAF5yTUsb1XZ0YhdoE8LD0gBjy4aiYOVttc6PDzZPB5KCRzpMasA\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SUPERCUT!<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media: Don&#8217;t believe your lying eyes, Biden&#8217;s never been sharper! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FW6e2ZPT5i\">pic.twitter.com\/FW6e2ZPT5i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1801975652892975318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/stop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlined <\/a>some of the media \u201cfact checks\u201d surrounding Biden\u2019s age on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s factcheckers argue that a video of a perplexed Biden at the G7 summit in Apulia, Italy, was achieved by \u201cdeceptive framing.\u201d The headline of the piece read, \u201c\u2018Cheapfake\u2019 Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply misleads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deeply? The Post offers an alternative video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gathering Biden before the president could wander away that is probably more misleading than the original. It was edited to exclude the fact that Biden is completely out of sync with every other world leader, all of whom are paying attention to the parachuter who landed right in front of them. Despite the Four Pinocchios, both clips show him \u201cmeandering.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Associated Press, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-fundraiser-freeze-misinformation-election-efe67fe51ab189cbcbc850332969fd46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relied <\/a>on a collection of White House staff and a \u201cspokesperson for [Jimmy] Kimmel\u201d to claim last weekend\u2019s video featuring help from President Obama was deceptive. <\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate reality for the state of the republic is that Americans don\u2019t read anymore. A 2022 Gallup <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/388541\/americans-reading-fewer-books-past.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey <\/a>found Americans are reading fewer books than ever since the pollster began to probe the question in 1990. Government data shows that those over the age of 15 who do read spend an average of less than <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/dataViewer\/view\/timeseries\/TUU10101AA01006315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30 minutes<\/a> a day doing so, while most Americans spend nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/dataViewer\/view\/timeseries\/TUU10101AA01014236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three hours<\/a> per day watching television. The Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2021\/09\/21\/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported <\/a>in 2021 that roughly a quarter of Americans hadn\u2019t even read a full book over the prior year, even in audio format.<\/p>\n<p>To the public, it\u2019s evidence of intelligence decline in a republic where the next generation is stuck playing catch up from two years of lost class time. To the press, it\u2019s an opportunity to tell people not just <em>what<\/em> to think but <em>how <\/em>to think. That\u2019s why the media\u2019s obsession with \u201cfact-checking\u201d to cultivate a monopoly on truth has embraced a new sense of urgency five months from the next election. With Americans watching more television than ever, the press is working overtime to keep voters from believing their eyes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fc4cfa2bdf4c9474f4fec876cc2a0d01 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fc4cfa2bdf4c9474f4fec876cc2a0d01\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4f838793570c8788fdacc60c93e83862 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4f838793570c8788fdacc60c93e83862\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political press is increasingly anxious about the public&#8217;s capacity to distinguish truth from activist-driven narratives. 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