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Vanity: Leftist MSM Starts “Media Literacy Project” to Fight “Misinformation”
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Posted on 04/14/2024 5:26:30 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Vanity - and possible story for the citizen reporters here.

Backed by the usual suspects (ABC, CBS, etc.) anything that doesn’t fit the mainstream propaganda narrative is suspect.

Here’s some of their language:

News literacy is the ability to determine the credibility of news and other information and to recognize the standards of fact-based journalism to know what to trust, share and act on.

The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan education nonprofit building a national movement to create a more news-literate America. NLP is the nation’s leading provider of news literacy education.

Facts matter.

We believe that the standards and ideals of fact-based journalism — especially the process of verification — are the best means by which to measure the credibility of news and other information. We also recognize that verifiable information includes research, data, context and reliable sources as key elements in formulating facts.

https://newslit.org/


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: bias; censorship; freespeech; mediabias
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1 posted on 04/14/2024 5:26:30 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Here’s their TV spot:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/656C/the-news-literacy-project-deciding-who-to-vote-for-double-check-facts


2 posted on 04/14/2024 5:27:08 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Why doesn't "News Literacy" include the demand that news outlets print retractions and apologies on the front page when they are wrong?

i.e Russiagate, COVID, etc...

3 posted on 04/14/2024 5:31:56 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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And that still would not make up for the massive lying by omission that the fake news mockingbird media engages in.


4 posted on 04/14/2024 5:33:22 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: TigerClaws

“If you get the vaccine.. you don’t get covid… and you don’t pass Covid”.


5 posted on 04/14/2024 5:38:54 AM PDT by bike800
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To: TigerClaws

Get a load of this...

https://newslit.org/educators/

BTW, go to their website and you’ll discover that they are a non-profit, but orovide no transparency on where they get their money.

More here, however...

https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-4011343

Boy, does that budget raise my eyebrows. And there’s no data on quite a bit.

Seems to this org, being a 501c3, could use a lot more scrutiny.


6 posted on 04/14/2024 5:40:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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All the breathless talk, disgusting and so transparently one sided.
The so called news is showing any illiterates that are still watching them the door by even going here.


7 posted on 04/14/2024 5:41:39 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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Alex, I’ll take “Firms that were launched but nobody normal heard about it or cared” for $200, please.

There are more “misinformation” guardians than there are ants at a picnic. It reads like the only people who speak about or champion these false flags are leftist media and related losers.

They may go into public schools etc but virtually anyone under 30 that I know distrusts the news and social media. The rise of deepfakes and “AI” images has made them less trusting of “news.” Parenthetically, many Millenials and GenZers get their “opinions” from Joe Rogan; like it or not, he’s that generation’s Limbaugh and everyone should cheer that - he could be a MSLSD nutbag.

I posted an article about journalists having a cow because the govt of Israel kicked journalists out of Gaza. The MSM fretted about the misinformation, when in reality they’re just throwing a fit because THEY can control the lies.

This entity is like a tree falling in the woods; if you don’t pay attention, they are meaningless.


8 posted on 04/14/2024 5:42:12 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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Uh, our “media” has no literacy whatsoever. Same for its honesty and ability to reason. But, if one has trouble understanding basic concepts, finds math impossible, and thinks they can levitate by standing in a can and pulling the handles, journalism is for them.


9 posted on 04/14/2024 5:47:14 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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LOL! After 2020? It’s too little, too late. I will never trust another word said by the MSM.


10 posted on 04/14/2024 5:51:05 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Well, it does seem like it could be better if the media were literate. That would be a massive undertaking, though, and I dont think they have the brains for it.


11 posted on 04/14/2024 5:54:26 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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The 21st century version of the Ministry of Truth.

Full of lies...

12 posted on 04/14/2024 6:00:37 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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Because they weren’t wrong, dontcha know. /s


13 posted on 04/14/2024 6:03:32 AM PDT by daler
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To: TigerClaws

“Only listen to OUR lies!” ~ Mockingbirds


14 posted on 04/14/2024 6:14:59 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Do not submit)
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Good. They can start with 8+ years of the Russian Hoax. Have they reported that the Steel Dossier was a made-up Hillary campaign document? That Adam Schitt, happily in the lead running for California senator, absolutely lied that he had real evidence that Trump was used the Russians? No.

But that whole episode of our history, designed to obliterate the elected president’s administration, really hurt this country, and is still believed by most democrats today.


15 posted on 04/14/2024 6:15:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: TigerClaws

Gobbles. Pravda. They all approve.


16 posted on 04/14/2024 6:21:06 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Cognitive dissonance. Sets up their sheep to refuse to accept anything not from a “trusted source.”

Ask a Dem about the Biden daughter diary.

Anything they don’t want to hear is Russian or conspiracy theory etc.

From their ad:

Watch out for phrases that frequently accompany political disinformation like “Make this go VIRAL” or conspiratorial statements like “The MEDIA won’t cover this!”


17 posted on 04/14/2024 6:23:53 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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COVID made me realize we truly have fake news and all that goes with it like “fact checkers”.

I was restricted on Facebook because I dared talk about lab leaks back in the early hysteria days. So the FB fact checker was messaging with me about their decision and I told him/her that I had a bachelors, and masters in a science related field with 30 years of experience. Then asked them what their qualifications were to fact check people like me.

She would not answer.


18 posted on 04/14/2024 6:35:41 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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This is like a fox guarding the chicken coop. MSM is where “misinformation” comes from. They create it.


19 posted on 04/14/2024 6:43:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gun show sales aren't the problem, public school zombies are the problem.)
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20 posted on 04/14/2024 6:59:44 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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