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NBC goes after The Federalist and enlists Google in the campaign

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The goal is to starve conservative outlets of money and ultimately reduce their reach, leaving the MSM the only ones standing.

The accusation in this case? This:

Criticizing the media.

NBC wrote a story and demanded that Google do something about Google ads appearing on The Federalist.

“The Federalist published an article claiming the media had been lying about looting and violence during the protests, which were both included in the report sent to Google.”

Another complaint was about comments at the Federalist that NBC thinks are racist. But under present law and usage, comments have not been considered the responsibility of sites such as The Federalist, or blogs such as this one. I police mine to a certain extent, but that’s a personal preference.

NBC also refers to The Federalist as a “far-right” site. Ludicrous. I read the Federalist regularly and it’s one of the best, most well-reasoned, most basic conservative and somewhat libertarian sites on the internet. Nothing “far” about it, except to the left.

Oh, and the NBC division devoted to this sort of thing is called the “NBC News Verification Unit.” So apparently NBC has its own little MiniTruth, dedicated to trolling rival conservative sites and reporting them to Teacher Google.

See also this post at Legal Insurrection for more information.

Every American should be outraged at this. But I assume at this point that many (most?) will either not hear about it, or will just shrug and say “Well, they deserved it, they’re racist liars.”

Oh, and as the LI post points out:

I mean, hello, has anyone ever ventured into the cesspool of YouTube comments? Anyone? Google should be banning itself, if the standard were equally applied.

Also under attack is ZeroHedge; I’m not especially familiar with that one. But I am extremely familiar with the Federalist. And I’m extremely familiar with YouTube comments, which are the Wild West and often quite a repository of all sorts of hate.

I don’t have ads on my site. I could get a little revenue from them, but not enough to make a difference, and I don’t like the look of ads nor the way they slow a site down. And I don’t want to be beholden to an ad provider; I’d rather just ask for money directly.

Which reminds me…I may do that soon. I’m obviously not the most effective business person on earth.

[ADDENDUM: Please see this as well.]

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NBC goes after <i>The Federalist</i> and enlists Google in the campaign — 33 Comments

  2. If you look at the comments at NYMag & WaPo, any column about Israel brings out the readers of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.

  3. If you look at the comments at NYMag & WaPo, any column about Israel brings out the readers of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.

    Bill M.: Really? My guess is you are speaking figuratively.

    When my Green Beret friend returned from the Army to preach the KKK Gospel to me, he literally pulled a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” out of his footlocker to quote from it.

    Leftie anti-Semites don’t know the basic literature of anti-Semitism anymore than they know the basic literature of … well, anything. They’ve just collected attitudes and soundbites, magpie-like.

    I’m not quite sure what my point is here.

    Anyway, the Federalist is a great blog which is wonderfully insightful and rational.

  4. huxley:

    That was a long time ago, not doubting it, and don’t doubt your take on the lefty aunti-fay and Blatant Lying Marxists of Seattle.

    OT – Any impressions from Abq regarding the incident at the Abq Museum and the statute fracas? Somebody got shot it seems.

  5. OT – Any impressions from Abq regarding the incident at the Abq Museum and the statute fracas? Somebody got shot it seems.

    om: I discussed it with a leftie cafe friend this morning. He had much to say about the history of the wicked conquistador, Juan de Onate, and the righteous indignation of Native Americans opposing the statue. Neither of us had heard about a shooting.

    I nodded politely but said little. I’m trying not to blow my cool as a conservative. But I think he’s on to me.

    Here’s the NYT lowdown:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/conquistador-onate-albuquerque-new-mexico-unrest.html

  7. ZeroHedge picks up stories and articles that others miss. While it’s been rumored to be a stealthy outlet for Russian propaganda, the NYTimes and WaPo are probably more anti-American. At least ZeroHedge sometimes gets it right. And I sense that it’s read by stock pickers and day traders and others of that ilk.

  8. huxley:

    Here is the take on the protest and the shooting from RedState.com

    https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/06/16/antifa-lesson/

    Back in the early 90’s when I worked in Abq on temporary assignments the town had a tough reputation; little road rage was expressed (you would get shot, I was warned). The culture was quite a mix: Native Americans, Spanish New Mexicans, recent Mexican Americans, Mexicans, whites, blacks, and Texans. Quite a bit for today’s grievance mobsters to work with?

  9. Well, crap. What about the movie “Little Big Man?”

    For starters, the main character is a Native American scout for the U.S. Cavalry. That alone should have him cancelled, for betraying the people (the “human beings”) for filthy luchre. Then, later in the movie, he is redeemed, I guess, as he is in a camp that’s raided by an Army war party. He doesn’t get killed though, he just listens to his grandfather say all kinds of really wise and woke things.

    Worst of all, the title character is played by Dustin Hoffman, which is so deeply and wrongly appropriative on so many levels. We should cancel Dustin, the director, writer and producer, although the latter three are probably dead (I checked, they are).

  10. om: Somehow my friend failed to mention the presence of Antifa in his recounting.

    …little road rage was expressed (you would get shot, I was warned)

    When I first visited New Mexico as an adult, my uncle explained that I must never show anger in traffic for exactly that reason.

    Some guys here have a pretty short fuse. I have been threatened twice with violence for doing nothing I was aware of.

  12. Say it after me: cancel culture is digital death. The job loss or home loss, if arson is applied, is real. But you’re not dead…yet.

  13. Rusty, the NYT and WaPo are “probably” more anti-American than Pravda during the Cold War. I used to have a joke I used in blog discussions when someone compared them to Pravda I’d say, “Unfair, Pravda was more objective”. I still say that but it may no longer be a joke.

  14. This is actually a good thing. The Federalist isn’t NeverTrump but it is somewhat Libertarian enough to wake up the corporate butt-kissing brigade on the Right who are always so anxious to tell us “Corporations are people too.” If this had happened to some place like American Greatness, a bunch of folks wouldn’t be quite as upset.

    Future political scientists will be fascinated at how instead of trying to separate Trump from his supporters, our political elites instead worked overtime to drive people to Trump and make them as mad as possible.

    Mike

  15. >NBC also refers to The Federalist as a “far-right” site

    In the past 3 years anything remotely non-progressive/regressive is labeled “far-right”, “extreme right”, or even “alt-right.” I’m pretty sure those who use such terms to label whomever or whatever don’t know what constitutes one as such. It’s a term not about accuracy but about stigmatizing.

    The issue I have with the Federalist is that the comment section gets hundreds of comments on almost every other article. The comments are rather poor with liberal trolls and your basic conservative going at each other. It’s a more dignified version of Breitbart, a site that has been stigmatized very early on once it moved to its new site.

  16. Every American should be outraged at this.

    How many Americans do you think are left (not are Left) in America? Certainly none remain at Google.

    No one (who counts) wants what America promised anymore.

  18. Well, the corporations have to do the work that the IRS and FBI won’t do anymore.

  19. I started reading the New York Times in 1956. It always had some Communist leanings. To wit – Durante covering up Stalin’s slaughter of the Kulaks when my father was a young man in the 30s and selling me Castro as a social Democrat in the late 50s. Still, the Times set a very high standard of what journalism and could and should be. My take on the Federalist is that it is the best overall traditional journalism outlet among the new crop of digital replacements for the hopelessly compromised MSM. And by that I mean the open way the writers at The Federalist don’t hide their political orientation, while treating their opponents as if they were human beings with a right to their opinions. Such behaviour was bound to attract attention in the end.

  20. Serious investment opportunity for conservative platforms:

    movies, tv, and alternatives for the left wing social media.

  22. GRA says “ The comments [at the Federalist] are rather poor with liberal trolls and your basic conservative going at each other. It’s a more dignified version of Breitbart” Huh? Comments are less dignified and much more viscous at the Federalist. I can only read there if I’m up for masochism. Comments at Breitbart are Boo/ Yeah! Simple.

    Back to the Gorsuch Sex travesty. Has anyone noted to complete elite disconnect from normals? That decision is so incendiary to ordinary people. The total trashing of female civil rights law?

    Is it civil war yet? The Left will use it to steamroller their agendas and supercharge the Courts as a battering ram to destroy middle class culture. Even Trump is blind-sided. This decision is Revolutionary and heinously Revolting. Lawless traitorous disconnected elites must be made to pay a real serious price.

  23. The doom-and-gloom always has a ready audience and 0hedge fulfills that in spades. It has a heavy negative bias with news from the fringes of the media. As such, you will frequently find articles and information there that you won’t find anywhere else.

    Then there is the fondness for conspiracies. Nothing too outlandish but because it covers a broad spectrum you can find opposing conspiracies the same day. I would call it a financial tabloid. Just enough truth and interesting tidbits to keep you coming back for more.

    As for the comments there, yes it is a wild bunch but nothing too far out of line when compared to say Instapundit.

  24. “NBC also refers to The Federalist as a “far-right” site. Ludicrous.” [Neo]

    Of course it is, but that is part of the gaslighting language that the left constantly uses. No left of center site is indentified as far-left or even left of center, but anything even slightly to the right of center is labeled as “far right” to attack and reduce its credibility.

  27. n.n. says:

    Google coexists under the umbrella corporation: Alphabet.

    Google ought properly to be broken up into a common-carrier distribution infrastructure accessed by multiple marketers, just like Ma Bell was.

    This should happen also to Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube (yeah, I know; it’s also Alphabet), and eBay.

  28. a common-carrier distribution infrastructure

    They do resemble a utility with monopolistic depth and breadth.

    That said, I wanted to emphasize “umbrella corporation” in contrast to its “do no evil” motto. It seems especially poignant in this period of viral and social contagion spreading, steering.

  29. Google stepped in it, and now the politico’s have what they wanted and need to make some serious changes… and they are proceeding to do so… Google is trying to backpeddle it, but one of the organizations they listened to was not even based in the US… its one thing to make your own policy about your own property, its another thing to have such a huge share of advertising that you dictate how other companies should be run and act… the eye has noticed and is focused on them. they should have learned from Microsoft, which was in a similar position and found the solution was shut up and do their jobs without such games as part of the company itself. (the exception is the MS world of news, separate from their software empire which just does its job in term of software, services, and cloud)

  30. @R.C. This should happen also to Amazon..

    why? what do they do? they also have a interesting structure that most people have no idea of. that most of their products are not sold by them or sourced. they are sourced and sold by independent sellers (like me), who use their infrastructure and system and warehouses and networks for small fees.

    I have yet to meet anyone who wasn’t a seller on amazon who could tell you how amazon works and its structures..

    this also includes the 165 separate moving parts of their AWS computing area having to do with business services, computing services, cloud, artificial intelligence, GPU rental, etc…

  31. huxley – “When my Green Beret friend returned from the Army to preach the KKK Gospel to me, he literally pulled a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” out of his footlocker to quote from it.

    Leftie anti-Semites don’t know the basic literature of anti-Semitism anymore than they know the basic literature of … well, anything.”

    Which makes me shake my head (but not laugh) when I read the stories accusing Jews of being white supremacists.

  32. T J on June 16, 2020 at 11:36 pm said:
    Since we are re-living a phase of Leftist, far Left rage like the terror, how about sharing a bit ‘o background on “Robespierre and the Terror – the first totalitarian revolution” from 2006, at City Journal
    * * *
    What’s most frightening about that article, and it is a very scary essay, is that it was written 14 years ago —

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