A “Nah, There’s No Mainstream Media Bias!” Addendum To The Democratic Porn-For-Pay Virginia House Candidate Story

/ Jack Marshall

Several news media sources have now reported that the Associated Press was informed about Susanna Gibson and her husband selling sexual perversions-on-demand via videos on the public porn site Chaturbate. A candidate for a state legislature seeking compensation for letting an audience see her urinate, perhaps on said husband (just to pick one possible videoed activity) is obviously both newsworthy and of legitimate interest to voters (despite the absurd line of defense now taken by Gibson, her defenders and her party), but the AP’s editors deliberately refused to report on it. Instead, the AP alerted Gibson that the secret of the videos was out, so she could take them down, which she did. This was on September 5.

The outlet then waited until September 12, after the scandal had been reported by others, including the Washington Post, to report it as news. Nice.

Observations:

1. The Associated Press, founded in 1846, operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association which finds and reports news in what is supposed to be an accurate, factual form that is distributed to its U.S. newspapers and broadcasters as a source for their own reports. Some time ago, the AP abandoned ethical journalism for “advocacy journalism,” which is not journalism as all, but propaganda. Thus the AP’s slanted and manipulated reporting contaminates the entire profession. Unfortunately, the organization’s reputation persists, and many still trust its news judgment.

2. “Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!” This is the kind of smoking gun episode that has led me to adopt a policy holding that any commenter insisting that the news media is not biased and untrustworthy will be banned from the site. At this point, such an assertion is either gaslighting, a lie, or proof that a commenter is too stupid and ignorant to contribute here.

3. The AP’s unethical attempt to assist a Democrat also demonstrates that one of the statements Donald Trump has been most criticized for—by the news media and media pundits, naturally—was and is accurate, fair, and important. As he said, the news media “is the enemy of the people,” and as Ethics Alarms has added, an enemy of democracy itself.

4. This is the same mainstream media that salivated over the phony “pee tape” allegations about Donald Trump injected into the public consciousness by Hillary Clinton’s opposition research. As the familiar quip goes, “If journalists didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.”

5. This is how elections get “fixed,” “rigged,” and “stolen.” The next time you read how Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen are “baseless,” do recall that unethical tactics like the AP’s on behalf of Gibson and Virginia Democrats are, in fact, a “base.”

6 thoughts on “A “Nah, There’s No Mainstream Media Bias!” Addendum To The Democratic Porn-For-Pay Virginia House Candidate Story”

  1. I see Lauren Boebert is being pilloried for (among other things) having been caught on infrared (?) video tape in a theater being felt up by her date. Let’s compare and contrast. The woman in Virginia is doing all sorts of stuff online and for profit. She’s admirable. She’s a Democrat. Boebert does something in the dark with a guy and she’s awful. She’s a Republican. Pretty stark contrast.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12525153/Lauren-Boeberts-Democrat-boyfriend-apology-Beetlejuice.html

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  2. As I said in commenting on the prior story, this whole affairs simply further proves that most MSM (you know, the “objective” journalists) have completely dropped all pretenses and fully embraced their role as Dems/left propagandists

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  3. All your links lead to your own site or a porn site.

    I wanted to read about the reports that the AP knew about the info and didn’t report on it.

    Thanks- Jordan

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  4. Coincidentally, in yesterday’s NYT, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner comments on the notorious UVA rape story from 2014:

    [Question] Rolling Stone had a history of producing certain kinds of stories that ended up being definitive. But there were a handful of stories that raised questions of integrity. The U.Va. campus rape story would be one of those. Even Hunter S. Thompson — I don’t know that anyone would hold him up as a beacon of factual accuracy, regardless of the literary merit of his stories. Was there anything endemic to Rolling Stone that caused you to put the pursuit of the juicy story ahead of concerns with accuracy?

    [Wenner] One word answer: no.

    [Question] Is it just one-offs?

    [Wenner] The University of Virginia story was not a failure of intent, or an attempt to be loose with the facts. You get beyond the factual errors that sank that story, and it was really about the issue of rape and how it affects women on campus, their lack of rights. Other than this one key fact that the rape described actually was a fabrication of this woman, the rest of the story was bulletproof. It wasn’t for recklessness. I mean, we made one of those errors — every publication in the country, including The Times, makes every 50 years at least. You get slammed for it. We took our beating. But it wasn’t indicative of how we operated. It wasn’t an error of being casual with the truth, or trying to stretch it, or mission creep, or anything like that.

    Rolling Stone went to UVA with an agenda and wrote their story based on that agenda. According to Wenner, except for the fact that the key element of their story was based on a lie, it was good reporting. “Bulletproof? in his words. Except for the $1.65 million in chickenfeed that they had to pay to the fraternity that they defamed.

    Talking about drinking your own bathwater.

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    • Oops. Looks like there are a lot of petards being used this weekend.

      The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday removed one of its own founders, Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner, from its foundation board a day after the New York Times published comments he made in an interview that were considered sexist and racist.

      In the interview, the Times’s David Marchese pressed Wenner on why his book “The Masters,” which is scheduled to be released Sept. 26 and collects interviews with seven rock icons, includes only white male performers such as Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. Wenner responded by suggesting that Black and female stars weren’t as “articulate” as white male ones about the generational impact of rock ’n’ roll. With respect to Black artists, Wenner said they weren’t in his “zeitgeist.”

      In a swift response, the Rock Hall said in a brief statement Saturday that “Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.”

      https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/rolling-stones-jann-wenner-ousted-from-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-board-ceede938?st=1yv2j6ftogruvfm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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