‘We Owned The News’: WSJ Editor-in-Chief Laments Death of Public Trust in Mainstream Media
The Wall Street Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker reminisced about a better time when the public unquestioningly believed anything the mainstream media told them, lamenting that those days are over.
Tucker explained Friday at the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting that the rise of alternative media has destroyed the corporate media’s monopoly on information.
“If you go back not that long ago, We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well,” Tucker said during a panel on “Defending Truth.”
“If it said it in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, then that was a fact. Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying.”
“We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well.”
Speaking at the WEF’s annual Davos meeting, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, laments the death of public trust in the MSM.
“If it said it in the Wall Street Journal… pic.twitter.com/JR6GIB9hf4— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) January 20, 2024
“So it’s no longer good enough for us to say this is what happened, or this is the news. We almost have to explain our working. So readers expect to understand how we source stories, they want to know how we go about getting stories,” she continued.
“We have to sort of lift the bonnet as it were in a way that newspapers aren’t used to doing and explain to people what we’re doing. We need to be much more transparent about how we go about collecting the news,” Tucker added.
Her remarks track with the Davos meeting’s theme this year of “Rebuilding Trust” amid a collapse of public trust in major institutions following the Covid plandemic.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed at Davos that “disinformation and misinformation” were the gravest threats of 2024 and called for collaboration between governments and corporations to fight against “industrial-scale disinformation” that imperils the establishment’s official narratives.
Trump Shuts Down Nikki Haley VP Rumors: She ‘Puts America Last’
Former President Donald Trump set the record straight and dismissed Nikki Haley as a possible vice presidential candidate amid rumors the former South Carolina governor was on his VP short list.
“You have people that put America last. And Nikki is somebody that puts America last,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire on Friday.
Trump dispels rumors of a Nikki Haley VP pick at rally— saying she is “not Presidential timber”:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 20, 2024
“That probably means that she’s not gonna be chosen as the Vice President.”
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Trump expressed his disappointment in Haley’s performance as his ambassador to the United Nations during his first term.
“I used to watch her when we were dealing with different countries, like Russia or China, and she was sitting there like, what the hell?” Trump said.
“Look, one of the reasons I did, because I happen to love the lieutenant governor, Henry McMaster, South Carolina. By the way, he’s been a fantastic governor. Henry’s been a fantastic governor. So, I did him a favor. He was with me all the way. I did him a favor, but I did it because he’s good and he’s been very popular,” Trump explained.
Trump went on to that Haley “was okay, but she is not presidential timber.”
“Now, when I say that, that probably means that she’s not going to be chosen as the vice president,” he said.
“When you say certain things, it sort of takes them out of play, right?” he added.
“I can’t say, ‘She’s not of the timber to be the vice president’ and then say, ‘Ladies and gentleman, I’m proud to announce that I’ve picked.’”
Haley has frequently parroted the left’s politically correct and woke talking points in recent years, and also criticized Trump on numerous occasions.
In the aftermath of January 6, 2021, Haley even claimed that Trump has no political future left in the Republican Party.
Haley and DeSantis are the last GOP presidential candidates standing ahead of the New Hampshire primary election next week, where Trump is currently polling at 50%, and Haley in distant second at 34%.
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‘This Really Pi**es Me Off’: Jerry Seinfeld Shuts Down Woke Journo for Complaining About Number of White People in His Web Series
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld took a buzzsaw to a far-left journalist who complained that his show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” has too many white people.
In a resurfaced 2014 clip that’s going viral, Seinfeld’s interview with Buzzfeed’s Peter Lauria took a turn after the woke journalist began pestering him about the high number of white guests on his web series.
“Take a look over here, Peter. What do you see?” Seinfeld jokingly asked as he pointed to the studio audience. “A lot of whiteys. What’s going on here?”
Jerry Seinfeld shuts down reporter who tries to guilt him for having too many White people in his projects. Woke activist reporters need to feel as insane & racist as they sound. pic.twitter.com/b7hOyPXD8J
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 18, 2024
“Oh, this really pisses me off,” Seinfeld said. “But go ahead. Really pisses me off. People think it’s the census or something, it’s gotta represent the actual pie chart of America.”
“Who cares? Funny is the world I live in,” he continued. “You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.”
“And I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with there calculating, ‘is this the exact right mix?’ To me, that’s anti-comedy,” he added.
Seinfeld stopped performing comedy at university campuses years ago over their oppressive cancel culture and political correctness.
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Dutch Queen Tells WEF Panel Biometric Digital ID’s Could Track Vaccination Status
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has called for universal digital ID’s that could be used to track everything from financial transactions to vaccination status. The introduction of biometric digital identity cards could be used by […]
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Watch: Top NATO Official Warns To Prepare For Hot War With Russia
A senior NATO official warned that Europe should prepare for a war with Russia within the next twenty years.
Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of Nato’s Military Committee, after a meeting of the committee in Brussels, told reporters that civilians need to be ready to mobilize if a wider war breaks out in Europe and governments should bolster their reserve forces.
“We have to realize it’s not a given that we are in peace. And that’s why we [Nato forces] are preparing for a conflict with Russia and the terror groups,” Baur declared Friday. “If it comes to it, if they attack us.”
L’OTAN annonce son plus grand exercice « depuis des décennies », contre la Russie et en Europe dès février 2024 : voilà ce que déclare alors l’amiral Rob Bauer (président du comite militaire, OTAN) pour faire monter la peur parmi les peuples :
— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) January 19, 2024
« Vous devez stocker de l’eau,… pic.twitter.com/kHiYhYQcu9
“But the discussion is much wider. It is also the industrial base and also the people that have to understand they play a role.”
“It starts there. The realization that not everything is plannable and not everything is going to be hunky dory in the next 20 years,” he said.
“We need to be readier across the whole spectrum,” Bauer continued, adding, “You have to have a system in place to find more people if it comes to war, whether it does or not. Then you talk mobilization, reservists or conscription.”
“You need to be able to fall back on an industrial base that is able to produce weapons and ammunition fast enough to be able to continue a conflict if you are in it,” he added.
Bauer a day earlier said NATO needed a “warfighting transformation” in the years ahead for an “era in which anything can happen at any time. An era in which we need to expect the unexpected.”
This comes ahead of NATO’s massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 planned for next week, which will involve 90,000 NATO troops from all 31 members, marking the alliance’s largest drills since the end of the Cold War.
“The exercise, composed of a series of smaller individual drills, will span from North America to NATO’s eastern flank, close to the Russian border,” reports Insider Paper. “It will involve 50 naval vessels, 80 aircraft and over 1,100 combat vehicles.”
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EU’s Top Diplomat Accuses Israel of Creating & Financing Hamas
The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has openly accused the Israeli government of creating and funding Hamas, an allegation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied. Speaking at the University of Valladolid in Spain on […]
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