{"id":553032,"date":"2021-06-04T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553032"},"modified":"2021-06-04T17:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:35:58","slug":"libs-emily-wilder-and-nikole-hannah-jones-were-victims-of-conservative-disinformation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libs-emily-wilder-and-nikole-hannah-jones-were-victims-of-conservative-disinformation-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Libs: Emily Wilder and Nikole Hannah-Jones Were Victims of Conservative \u2018Disinformation Campaign\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Flibs-emily-wilder-and-nikole-hannah-jones-were-victims-of-conservative-disinformation-campaign%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=553032&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/disinfo-e1622837484387.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Liberal journalists keep falling victim to conservative &#8220;disinformation campaigns,&#8221; liberal journalists have declared.<\/p>\n<p>The libs are particularly aggrieved over the Associated Press&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/the-aps-empty-gesture\/\">rescind<\/a> its job offer to Emily Wilder, an anti-Israel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/ap-hires-anti-israel-activist-as-news-associate\/\">activist<\/a>. They are equally perturbed by the University of North Carolina&#8217;s decision to award <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0opinion writer Nikole Hannah-Jones a five-year contract worth $900,000, as opposed to a tenured position worth even more.<\/p>\n<p>By most standards, neither the Associated Press nor the University of North Carolina is a particularly &#8220;conservative&#8221; institution. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped critics from suggesting their decisions were influenced by conservative &#8220;disinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disinformation campaigns against journalists are a growing problem in our age of information overload,&#8221; journalist Janine Zacharia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/05\/26\/emily-wilder-fired-ap-490892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a> in <em>Politico<\/em>. Wilder, she argues, was &#8220;targeted by a \u00a0disinformation campaign\u2014in this case, by people who took issue with Wilder&#8217;s documented pro-Palestinian views.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In spite of her best efforts, Zacharia is unable to explain how reporting on publicly available information constitutes &#8220;information warfare,&#8221; although she appears to suggest that Israel may have been involved. &#8220;It bore all the classic marks of a disinformation campaign,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Pushing the Wilder story refocused attention from Israel&#8217;s bombing of the AP bureau to a junior news associate who had just started in Arizona.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>University of North Carolina journalism professors Alice Marwick and Daniel Kreiss are just as convinced that Nikole Hannah-Jones was the target of multiple &#8220;conservative disinformation campaigns.&#8221; Writing in <em>Slate<\/em>, the professors argue that criticizing Hannah-Jones and her controversial 1619 Project, a revisionist history of the American founding that has been widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/12\/historians-clash-1619-project\/604093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> by historians, is tantamount to waging disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;possible,&#8221; they concede, that some critics might be &#8220;doing so in good faith,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t mean their criticism is any less disinformative. &#8220;Debate and disagreement are at the heart of academia\u2014but conservative disinformation campaigns are deliberately spread to advance particular political and ideological goals,&#8221; Marwick and Kreiss write. Of course, by this standard, most of what the mainstream media do on a daily basis might be described as a disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the professors conclude that criticism of Hannah-Jones and the University of North Carolina&#8217;s decision to wait five years before deciding whether to grant her tenure are evidence that &#8220;systemic racism exists and the 1619 Project is vital.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal journalists keep falling victim to conservative &#8220;disinformation campaigns,&#8221; liberal journalists have declared. 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