Newsgate: Reporters Caught Coordinating With Political Hacks.  Compromised reporting has always existed as a result of covert collaborations between reporters and political interests — Democrats and Republicans alike.  Some of the most exemplary hard evidence available happens to be heavy on reporters with Democrat ties.  Much of it came during the scandal-ridden 2016 presidential campaign when candidate Donald Trump upended politics and ran against Hillary Clinton, who was also running against Bernie Sanders for the Democrat nomination.  As you'll see, much of the political establishment and establishment media seemed to be working on Team Hillary.  It can be argued that some individual accounts provided here can be rationalized and are not serious breaches of ethics.  But taken as a whole, it's easy to see how we as journalists have done a poor job protecting ourselves from being co-opted by organized interests, often ones that are paid and politically-motivated.  Whether we realize it or not, they've figured out how to exploit the media and use us to publish their propaganda.

Who runs the American agitprop machine?  [Scroll down]  About ten years ago, Tucker Carlson helped to expose a radical propaganda internet list called JournoList, a secret Google group of media influencers who made up the headlines for the next day's news, in places like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the U.K. Guardian.  Wikipedia tells us, ["]JournoList (sometimes referred to as the J-List) was a private Google Groups forum for discussing politics and the news media with 400 left-leaning journalists, academics and others.  Ezra Klein created the online forum in February 2007 while blogging at The American Prospect and shut it down on June 25, 2010 amid wider public exposure.  Journalists later pointed out various off-color statements made by members of the list denigrating conservatives.["]  That was an actual conspiracy to centralize the U.S. media.  Chances are that it is still living in some secret Google group today, because the "mainstream" media are still singing from the same hymnal.  But how does the Biden Gang control the propaganda gang?

Establishment Media Shut Down Secret Chat Room Coordinating Facebook 'Whistleblower' Document Releases After Breitbart News Inquiries.  Several establishment media outlets coordinated the release of document disclosures in a giant and secret, now-defunct online chat group, hidden from the public, a series of recent reports reveals.  The group shut down abruptly on Tuesday afternoon [10/26/2021] after a series of unanswered inquiries from Breitbart News were sent to known members throughout the establishment media, including at least two New York Times reporters, a senior editor at the Atlantic, an NBC News reporter, and several others.  The online chat, through an application called Slack that facilitates group chats and is used by many different newsrooms and other companies nationwide, helped establishment media outlets coordinate the release of their stories on documents provided to them by so-called Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen.  Slack is generally used internally for easier communication in remote companies, but special features do allow Slack users to set up groups with members from a selection of different companies.  That appears to be what happened here, as representatives from each of the above named companies and others all joined a specially created Slack group to coordinate their stories for maximum impact.

How the Deep State Media Operate.  Few now doubt that the major U.S. media outlets, under the guise of journalism, function as political activists, saturating the airwaves and the internet with the talking points of the Democrat party.  There has long been liberal bias in the media, but deliberate efforts to undermine the traditional nonpartisan ideal of journalism took a giant leap forward with the 2007 founding of "Journolist."  It was originally intended to be a gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists to connect young writers to top sources, but Journolist quickly degenerated into the collusion and coordination for hackery and smears, as described by the Daily Caller: [...]

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#11] Journolist:  In June of 2010 the Daily Caller news website seized on the existence of a secret, private web message board open only to left-wing members of the news media, found its messages, and exposed them to the world.  The message board was revealed to be openly plotting to make sure that negative coverage of Barack Obama was either explained away or, better yet, ignored by the media.  This collusion showed that "the fix was in" and that liberal "journalists" saw no reason not to coordinate along ideological lines instead of simply reporting the truth.

The List: Every Journalist in the GameJournoPros Group Revealed.  Last week, Breitbart News revealed a secret video game journalist mailing list used by a clique of influential writers, editors, and bloggers, some of whom attempted to bully their colleagues with it in an attempt to shape the news agenda for political purposes.  We can today reveal the complete list of journalists, some 150 key industry figures, on the list.  Outlets with representation span the entire video games journalism universe and include Polygon, Ars Technica, Wired, Eurogamer, Destructoid, Kotaku, Joystiq, TechRadar, and many other well-known brands in games publishing.

1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered.  A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.  Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.

JournoList 2.0 Discovered.  A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.  Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.  The group's existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#11]  Journolist:  In June of 2010 the Daily Caller news website seized on the existence of a secret, private web message board open only to left-wing members of the news media, found its messages, and exposed them to the world.  The message board was revealed to be openly plotting to make sure that negative coverage of Barack Obama was either explained away or, better yet, ignored by the media.  This collusion showed that "the fix was in" and that liberal "journalists" saw no reason not to coordinate along ideological lines instead of simply reporting the truth.