The website admitted that by later adding accurate context to its story, it āsignificantly diminishedā its news value and led to the article being dropped.
A popular conservative website hasĀ retracted an article that falsely blamed President Joe BidenĀ for instituting a policy againstĀ religious-themed Easter eggs at the annualĀ White House Easter Egg Roll.
On Tuesday, theĀ Daily CallerĀ retracted an article that began, āThe Biden administration banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 āCelebrating National Guard Familiesā art contest.ā
AlthoughĀ the ban against religious imagery goes back to the Carter administrationĀ and was in effect during the Trump administration, the Daily Caller ignored that pesky little detail in order to give readersĀ a MAGA opportunity to gripe and moanĀ about a grievance that didnāt exist.
As a result, many conservativesĀ attempted to make hay off the story,Ā even though it was misleading, especially since many also falsely accused Biden of purposely declaring March 31 to be Trans Day of Visibility as a way to insult Christians.
Daily Caller readers arenāt ever going to read the retraction anyway. Truth doesnāt matter to the right in the slightest. Journalists who pretend otherwise are basically larping.
Damage was done so they pretended to care about the truth.
Itās literally information warfare.
We have very little chance. The wealthy literally control reality with media outlets, āweā have absolutely no equal footing in this class warā¦
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Tucker Carlsonās propaganda machine says what?
Fucking exactly.
Itās a goddamn propaganda outlet that ONLY EXISTS to function as a propaganda outlet.
We need to do some serious thinking in this country and really hammer down how to define propaganda and separate it from legitimate press.
Itās one thing if youāre simply reporting the news, whether itās positive for the right or left, reality is reality, but if your entire existence is āsimplyā to lie and push a narrative that misinforms the population for political or monetary gain then there needs to be consequences.
We need a free press, but maybe we need to have some definitions as to what constitutes the press and the whole ātiny-ass text that says opinionā isnāt cutting it. People like my father have said āShepard Smith is too opinionated, thatās why I like Sean Hannity.ā When Smith was the literal journalist side of Fox and Hannity is literally an OPINION showā¦
The website admitted that by later adding accurate context to its story, it āsignificantly diminishedā its news value
Iām inclined to believe that āadded accurate contextā couldnāt have been all that accurate if it āsignificantly diminished its news value.ā
You misunderstand. They are saying that by telling the whole truth, the story is no longer worth being on their site.
Conservative news outlets lying to rile up voters you say?
Somehow theyāve made their bunny to be even creepier than before. Thatās amazing.
