The Department of Homeland Security just slammed the Washington Post and CNN for patting themselves on the back with the false WAPO story about the Coast Guard allowing Swastikas and nooses to be displayed by members.
DHS was responding to a tweet by the WAPO reporter, who ‘broke’ the false story, thanking CNN for using their reporting. In the referenced CNN segment, they claimed the reporting by WAPO had forced the Coast Guard to ‘reverse course’.
Here’s what DHS wrote:
This is a prime example of the journalist class constantly patting themselves on the back for intentional misrepresentations and calling it journalism.
It has ALWAYS been forbidden for swastikas or nooses to be displayed in the Coast Guard. The only people who “didn’t know” that are those pretending to be journalists.
@washingtonpost and @CNN want you to believe that somehow their reporting caused a reversal of course for @USCG. It did not. What it does do is maliciously malign our brave men and women who go to work every day to Keep America Safe.
This journalist ‘back patting’ is the equivalent of peer-reviewed climate journals in the past claiming that the global warming climate hoax was real. The great Rush Limbaugh used to call these ‘climate scientists’ out for using peer-reviewed journals instead of actual facts, saying that science is not about consensus, but about objective facts.
Here it’s the same thing. These garbage news outlets are using each other’s false reporting to create a narrative, when their so-called journalism should be based on objective facts. What CNN should have reported was that the WAPO story was never true, and therefore it was false from the beginning and never really a story. Instead, they just built on WAPO’s false story with fake news of their own, misinforming their viewers in the process.
This is news by consensus, which is not news it all. It’s narrative.