{"id":116944,"date":"2019-02-19T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116944"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:54:24","slug":"blockbuster-msm-reporter-leaves-the-reservation-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116944","title":{"rendered":"BLOCKBUSTER: MSM Reporter Leaves the Reservation&#8212;FOR GOOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;I\u2019m Committing Professional Suicide&#8221;: CBS Star Reporter Admits &#8220;Mostly Liberal&#8221; Journalists Are Now &#8220;Political Activists&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><em>CBS News<\/em>\u00a0chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks and admitted that journalists have lost their objectivity and become &#8220;political activists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/logan%201.png?itok=oS0X-gQQ\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/logan%201.png?itok=oS0X-gQQ\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/logan%201.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/logan%201.png?itok=oS0X-gQQ 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c266d769-452a-4c61-a9c2-f4eaf09c808f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the\u00a0Mike Drop podcast with retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan admitted that &#8220;the media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just the U.S.,&#8221; adding that it was nearly impossible for viewers to decipher if they were being told the truth at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>85% of journalists are registered Democrats<\/strong>,&#8221; Logan said. &#8220;<strong>How do you know you\u2019re being lied to? How do you know you\u2019re being manipulated? How do you know there\u2019s something not right with the coverage?<\/strong>\u00a0When they simplify it all [and] there\u2019s no grey. It\u2019s all one way. Well, life isn\u2019t like that. If it doesn\u2019t match real life, it\u2019s probably not. Something\u2019s wrong.\u00a0<strong>For example, all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative. \u2026 That\u2019s a distortion of the way things go in real life<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no grey. It&#8217;s all one way,&#8221; said Logan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBS Laura Logan ~All coverage of Trump was negative -that&#39;s distortion We abandoned our pretense to be objective  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MvH16FE692\">https:\/\/t.co\/MvH16FE692<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ruthann (@TeaBoots) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeaBoots\/status\/1097840616707362817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Logan says that the heavy bias\u00a0<strong>has warped people&#8217;s ability to know what&#8217;s really true<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you turn on your computer, or you walk past the TV, or you see a newspaper headline in the grocery store If they\u2019re all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it\u2019s true,&#8221; said Logan. &#8220;You don\u2019t question it, because everyone is saying it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also admitted that\u00a0<strong>journalists today are more or less lobbyists for liberal interests,\u00a0<\/strong>adding that the weight of the liberal media machine overwhelms &#8220;the other side&#8221; unless\u00a0<strong>people actively seek outlets such as Breitbart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Washington Post is a Fact Checker only for the Democrats. For the Republicans, and for your all time favorite President, it is a Fake Fact Checker!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1097879075979436033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Noting recent comments by former\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>executive editor Jill Abramson, Logan said &#8220;Although the media has historically always been left-leaning,\u00a0<strong>we\u2019ve abandoned our pretense \u2014 or at least the effort \u2014 to be objective<\/strong>, today. \u2026 We\u2019ve become political activists, and some could argue propagandists, and there\u2019s some merit to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Logan said that\u00a0<strong>MSM reports using anonymous or single government sources are bunk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>That\u2019s not journalism, it\u2019s horseshit<\/strong>,&#8221; she said &#8211; demanding more accountability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Responsibility for fake news begins with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire interview below (relevant part begins at 2:16:00):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"024 Lara Logan\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZlVx-phlPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-19\/cbs-news-chief-policital-correspondent-breaks-ranks-admits-journalists-are-now\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-19\/cbs-news-chief-policital-correspondent-breaks-ranks-admits-journalists-are-now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019m Committing Professional Suicide&#8221;: CBS Star Reporter Admits &#8220;Mostly Liberal&#8221; Journalists Are Now &#8220;Political Activists&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}