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Monday, March 01, 2021
Boston public schools cancel new advanced classes for high performing students because of racial inequalities - TheBlaze
Biden launches free taxi to destination of choice for illegal migrants - American Thinker
Media's been lying to us for decades!-----The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth
The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth
In Anniversaries, Cronkite Moment, Debunking, Media myths, Quotes, Television on February 27, 2020 at 7:03 pm"Fifty-two years ago tonight, CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite presented a prime-time report about the war in Vietnam and declared in closing that the U.S. military effort was “mired in stalemate” and that negotiations might eventually offer a way out.
It was a tepid analysis, hardly novel. But over the years, Cronkite’s assessment has swelled in importance, taking on the aura of a vital, media-inspired turning point. It is so singularly important in American journalism that it has come to be called the “Cronkite Moment.”
In reality it is a moment steeped in media myth.Notable among the myths of the “Cronkite Moment” is that President Lyndon B. Johnson watched the program and, upon hearing the anchorman’s comment about “stalemate,” snapped off the television and told an aide or aides something to this effect:
“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” (Versions vary.)
Cronkite’s remarks supposedly were an epiphany to the president, who realized his war policy was a shambles.
The account of the anchorman’s telling hard truth to power is irresistible to journalists, representing a memorable instance of media influence and power.
But Cronkite’s program on February 27, 1968, hardly had decisive effects.
Here’s why (this rundown is adapted from a chapter about the “Cronkite Moment” in my media myth-busting book, Getting It Wrong):...Read all.
VIDEO: Jim Acosta confronted at CPAC over CNN's coverage of Gov. Cuomo's scandals - TheBlaze
Imagine the media melt-down if she was black, was killed at a BLM riot?-----With Ashli Babbitt Killing Shrouded in Mystery, Capitol Officer Who Shot Her Is in Hiding for His Own Safety | RealClearInvestigations
History for March 1
- 1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
- 1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
- 1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
- 1907 - In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau.
- 1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
- 1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
DHS Prepares Legal Welcome for Flood of Migrant Child Workers
Coyotes will deliver perhaps 13,000 foreign children and job-seeking teenagers to the U.S. border in May, according to a leaked report to Axios.com.
But the leak is intended to be a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Now We Have Our Excuse for Why Biden Can't Do His State of the Union Address On Time - Becker News
Marsha Blackburn: Big Tech 'Aiding and Abetting' Communist China
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday that big tech is “aiding and abetting” China’s mission for “global dominance.”
“China and big tech, they have a cozy relationship,” Blackburn said. “And they have been allowing the Chinese Communist Party to spew all of their information. I can’t find anywhere they’ve been censored or blocked or banned.”
This Is Not Normal and I Refuse to Pretend It Is
'Biological males' competing as females 'are just taking it away from us': HS athlete blasts Biden DOJ for turning back on transgender lawsuit - TheBlaze
You think this will "just go away?-----The Imaginary Menace Behind Everything Wrong In America
- This white supremacist bogeyman will continue to be seen as America’s primary threat and the one responsible for all manners of misdeeds.
Profits over people-----Planned Parenthood Plays Big Role in Transgender Revolution
- Abortions were the clinic’s ‘bread and butter,’ something this employee fully supports. But, she noted, ‘trans-identifying kids are cash cows
California’s Climate Contradictions
- New evidence that green policies punish the poor and subsidize the rich.