{"id":2388452,"date":"2025-01-09T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/propaganda-press-is-as-fake-as-david-muirs-fireman-costume\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:20:59","slug":"propaganda-press-is-as-fake-as-david-muirs-fireman-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/propaganda-press-is-as-fake-as-david-muirs-fireman-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Press Is As Fake As David Muir&#8217;s Fireman Costume"},"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%2Fpropaganda-press-is-as-fake-as-david-muirs-fireman-costume%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=2388452&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 excerpt discusses \u2063the controversial \u200bbehavior of journalist David Muir, particularly his\u200d use of clothespins to adjust his \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-trump-team-misspell-corey-comperatores-name-on-a-firefighter-jacket\/\" title=\"Fact Check: Did the Trump Team Misspell Corey Comperatore&#039;s Name on a Firefighter Jacket?\">firefighter jacket<\/a> \u2064while reporting on serious fire \u200cevents in Los\u2064 Angeles. This act, perceived \u200cas vanity, raises \u200cquestions about the\u2063 authenticity of media\u2063 presentations. The piece critiques \u200dthe media&#8217;s\u2063 tendency to\u200c align \u200bwiht partisan interests, \u200cspecifically those of the Democratic Party, suggesting \u200bthat news ofen serves as performative theater to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywoods-propaganda-machine-leaves-viewers-scrambling-for-older-shows\/\" title=\"Hollywood&#039;s Influence Has Viewers Seeking Older Shows\">promote specific agendas<\/a>.It highlights how the emergence of Donald \u200cTrump has\u2064 exacerbated this issue, leading journalists to abandon claims of \u2064objectivity.\u200b Additionally, the article references\u200c previous episodes like the Russia collusion narrative as examples of the media&#8217;s bias and manipulation to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">support partisan goals<\/a>. it\u200c portrays a skepticism towards the integrity of mainstream journalism in the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-doomed-two-gop-candidates-join-trump-in-demolishing-joe-in-general-election\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Fate Sealed: Two GOP Candidates Unite with Trump to Crush Joe in Election\">current \u200bpolitical landscape<\/a>.  <\/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<div>\n<p>There&rsquo;s nothing surprising about the fact that ABC&rsquo;s resident <a href=\"https:\/\/drhorrible.fandom.com\/wiki\/Captain_Hammer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Captain Hammer<\/a> wannabe uses clothespins to nip the waist of his perfectly clean firefighter jacket like a department store mannequin &mdash; or that he would take the time to do so while reporting on devastating fires in Los Angeles. What&rsquo;s surprising is that anyone would expect any different from David Muir.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the first you&rsquo;re hearing of clothespin-gate, just watch this:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>People do all kinds of things on television to look better for the cameras, most of which is unobjectionable. (Please, never stop wearing makeup, Joy Behar.) Sure, Muir playing dress-up and pinning it to show off his hourglass figure is a little act of vanity that makes him and his network look a bit like a fraud. But that wasn&rsquo;t the first or most obvious clue. <\/p>\n<p>Like every other entity in politics, the media have their own agendas, and it just so happens that the vast majority of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/liberal-mediaevery-poll-shows-journalists-are-more-liberal-american-public-and-public-knows-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">align<\/a> with the interests of the Democrat Party. For the vast majority of that vast majority, the &ldquo;news&rdquo; is just performative theater they deliver to advance their interests.<\/p>\n<p>Hate Trump and want to make your viewers hate him too? Yell through the television about how he&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/morning-joe-trump-hitler-comparison-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">literally Hitler<\/a> and a threat to democracy and call it &ldquo;analysis.&rdquo; (Just be ready to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/19\/msnbcs-morning-joe-hosts-keep-up-media-charade-of-faking-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">show up<\/a> on &ldquo;literal Hitler&rsquo;s&rdquo; doorstep to make amends after he wins the election anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s appearance on the political scene was clarifying because it made journalists so angry, they dropped the pretense of &ldquo;objectivity.&rdquo; Margaret Sullivan, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Sullivan_(journalist)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pedigree<\/a> includes The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism School, and the Pulitzer Prize Board, said as much in a &ldquo;manifesto&rdquo; she published in 2022, in which she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2022\/10\/12\/margaret-sullivan-how-media-should-cover-trump-next-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued<\/a> that the media had not shown <em>enough<\/em> contempt toward Trump in the six years since he ran for office and needed to start making it more obvious.<\/p>\n<p>If you need another example of how media outlets launder fake news to advance partisan goals, recall the Russia collusion hoax. After Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s campaign paid for the invention of salacious lies involving Trump and Russia, those lies were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/19\/media-shame-durham-after-danchenko-verdict-but-its-russia-hoaxers-who-should-be-embarrassed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shopped<\/a> to U.S. intelligence agencies. In line with the FBI&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/08\/russiagate-redux-grassley-calls-out-fbi-for-leaking-false-narratives-to-obstruct-biden-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">common practice<\/a> of leaking information to the press, the allegations made their way into the hands of The New York Times, whose reporters were happy to regurgitate them. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/07\/23\/new-fbi-notes-re-debunk-major-nyt-story-highlight-media-collusion-to-produce-russia-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debunked<\/a> February 2017 story, &ldquo;Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence,&rdquo; and all the subsequent articles repeating its contents did exactly what they were designed to do: provide the appearance of independent confirmation of the leaked lies about Trump so the Democrats who invented the hoax in the first place could use the media reporting to keep attacking Trump. It was a feedback loop, and the willingness of all but a handful in the corporate press to participate was an industry-disqualifying failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Russia hoax was one of the most elaborate &ldquo;scandals&rdquo; the media cooked up about Trump, but you could throw a dart at a calendar of any of his four years in office and probably hit a day on which the media made up lies about him. When Trump suggested that war hawk Liz Cheney should try fighting her own foreign wars sometime, the headlines <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/01\/corporate-medias-shameless-liz-cheney-hoax-is-what-real-disinformation-looks-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">screeched<\/a> that Trump was threatening to execute Cheney by firing squad. <\/p>\n<p>The media <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/06\/2024s-biggest-loser-is-the-corporate-media-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manufactured<\/a> Kamala Harris&rsquo; entire campaign, writing about her Chuck Taylors and her joy and her brat vibes. They magically delivered polls that showed a big Harris bump when she entered the race &mdash; a bump Harris&rsquo; own internal pollsters <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/27\/us-news\/harris-camps-own-polling-never-showed-vp-leading-trump-team-surprised-by-reports-showing-her-ahead-sr-adviser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never saw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That same institution told you that anyone who challenged the reigning narrative about Covid-19 lockdowns and mask mandates and vaccines was spreading disinformation. They stood in front of burning buildings in middle America and told you the blazes were &ldquo;mostly peaceful&rdquo; because something something George Floyd. They told you Joe Biden was running the country. <\/p>\n<p>David Muir&rsquo;s own network, by the way, was just <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/17\/abcs-15-million-settlement-caps-off-another-bad-election-year-for-the-legacy-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced<\/a> to pay $15 million because one of its hosts allegedly defamed Trump by falsely claiming he had been found liable for raping a woman.<\/p>\n<p>When you read or hear something from any of the outlets that went along with those &mdash; and countless other &mdash; hoaxes, you should ask yourself <em>why<\/em> they might want you to absorb such &ldquo;news&rdquo; and probably assume the opposite is true until proven otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, what they&rsquo;re selling is faker than David Muir&rsquo;s Firefighter Barbie outfit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that ABC&#8217;s David Muir uses clothespins on his jacket while reporting fires; what&#8217;s surprising is the expectation of anything different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2388453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.48.48%E2%80%AFAM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40619,5157,4188,4488,32870],"class_list":["post-2388452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-david-muir","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-propaganda","tag-satire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.48.48%E2%80%AFAM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388452","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388456,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388452\/revisions\/2388456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}