{"id":597173,"date":"2021-07-19T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597173"},"modified":"2021-07-19T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:21:09","slug":"bickley-npr-targets-daily-wire-implicitly-presses-facebook-to-suppress-traffic-its-time-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bickley-npr-targets-daily-wire-implicitly-presses-facebook-to-suppress-traffic-its-time-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"BICKLEY: NPR Targets Daily Wire, Implicitly Presses Facebook To Suppress Traffic. It\u2019s Time To Fight Back."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fbickley-npr-targets-daily-wire-implicitly-presses-facebook-to-suppress-traffic-its-time-to-fight-back%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=597173&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\/07\/GettyImages-526936048.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The public pressure campaign to quash The Daily Wire has begun.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not going to work.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, publicly-funded National Public Radio issued a hit piece directed at The Daily Wire. The goal of the piece is obvious: to pressure Facebook to cut off our traffic. The piece, titled, \u201cOutrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build An Empire,\u201d is a masterful exercise in journactivism: it\u2019s not news, it\u2019s a simple activist attempt to push Facebook into silencing those who disagree.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The piece is simultaneously dishonest and deeply authoritarian.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the dishonest side, it acknowledges that Daily Wire is a conservative news source, then tries to argue that Americans are unaware that The Daily Wire is conservative \u2014 despite the fact that every single one of our pieces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/npr-accuses-daily-wire-of-tricking-readers-because-were-conservative-thats-a-lie-but-npr-is-lying-to-its-own-readers\">carries a sentence at the end reading<\/a>, \u201cThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the authoritarian side, NPR finds an \u201cexpert\u201d to launder its own opinion: that conservatism ought to be labeled \u201cmisinformation\u201d <i>per se<\/i>. Here\u2019s NPR:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i>The articles The Daily Wire publishes don\u2019t normally include falsehoods (with some exceptions), and the site said it is committed to \u201ctruthful, accurate and ethical reporting.\u201d But as [Jaime Settle, director of the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab at the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia] explains, by only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda (such as negative reports about socialist countries and polarizing ones about race and sexuality issues) and only including certain facts, readers still come away from The Daily Wire\u2019s content with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation\u2019s greatest threats\u2026.\u201dThey tend to not provide very much context for the information that they are providing,\u201d Settle said. \u201cIf you\u2019ve stripped enough context away, any piece of truth can become a piece of misinformation.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, we\u2019re telling the truth. We\u2019re reporting facts. We\u2019re stating openly that we\u2019re conservative. And this means, according to NPR, we are promoting misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is openly pushing for Facebook to crack down on \u201cmisinformation.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re killing people,\u201d the president declares, and his Press Secretary confirms his White House is keeping a list of publications it disagrees and which it believes Facebook should censor.<\/p>\n<p>And as with Henry II asking, \u201cWho will rid me of this turbulent priest,\u201d Biden\u2019s state-funded knights at NPR spring into action to assassinate his enemies.<\/p>\n<p>At least they\u2019re getting paid off for their efforts. Judd Legum at Popular Information, Kevin Roose and Kara Swisher at the New York Times, and the rest of the establishment media have made themselves puppets of the president for free.<\/p>\n<p>This would all be hilariously pathetic if it weren\u2019t so frightening. A government-funded source not-so-subtly calling for Facebook to censor factual material from a conservative point of view, arguing that to do so would alleviate \u201cpolarization\u201d \u2014 and doing all of that at the same time the White House is blaming social media for everything from January 6 to the Covid pandemic \u2014 is authoritarian and ugly.<\/p>\n<p>As editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, we work hard to bring you the news from a conservative perspective each day. We have a staff of dozens of reporters, writers and editors dedicated to telling you the truth \u2014 and we don\u2019t hide our agenda. Every article we print tells our readers who we are: proud conservatives, irreverently bringing you the truth.<\/p>\n<p>We unapologetically appeal to conservatives on social media, too. In fact, our success there has allowed us to bring a conservative perspective to millions of Americans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Which is why the Left is so angry \u2014 and why dishonest members of the press, who declare themselves objective while mobilizing on behalf of viewpoint monopoly, must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we don\u2019t control Facebook. We aren\u2019t the Biden Administration or the White House\u2019s media lapdogs, nor are we on speed dial with the social media companies. What we have is <i>you. <\/i>That\u2019s why we\u2019ll win.<\/p>\n<p>So please help us fight back against the establishment media monopoly and their brazen attempts to shut down the dissemination of information. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe today to Daily Wire<\/a>. While you\u2019re at it, subscribe to our friends at The Blaze and Fox Nation and any other conservative outlet you support. The assault on your ability to access conservative information is only going to increase from here on out.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public pressure campaign to quash The Daily Wire has begun.It\u2019s not going to work.On Monday, publicly-funded National Public Radio issued a hit piece directed at The Daily Wire. 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