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To people paying attention this is not news. We have known it for a long time. The mainstream media's reputation with the public is in the pits. Check out these facts. Quote: "GALLUP: Americans Confidence in Media Hits Record Low.  Americans are waking up to the scam of the infotainment industry in this 21st century, and a new poll reveals just how little confidence our nation has in the media. The entire industry has turned tawdry in the modern era, openly exploiting our emotions in order to keep us glued to the screen through advertisements.  They want to rile us up, as conflict breeds ratings and revenue. But Americans have long held a rather sizeable distrust of authority, stemming from our nation’s very inception, and our respect and confidence in the media is waning rapidly. 

       Americans’ confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points. Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Both readings are down five percentage points since last year. Gallup has tracked Americans’ confidence in newspapers since 1973 and television news since 1993 as part of its annual polling about major U.S. institutions. The latest readings are from a June 1-20 poll that saw declines in confidence ratings for 11 of the 16 institutions measured and no improvements for any. 

      There was one institution less-liked than the media, and it probably won’t take two guesses for the average American to identify it. Television news and newspapers rank nearly at the bottom of that list of institutions, with only Congress garnering less confidence from the public than TV news. While these two news institutions have never earned high confidence ratings, they have fallen in the rankings in recent years.  Unsurprisingly, television news had the lowest confidence rating within the media sphere at only 11%."      GALLUP: Americans Confidence in Media Hits Record Low ⋆ While the sentiment isn't all that surprising, the numbers are. ⋆ Flag And Cross  

This item illustrates just how corrupted are the minds, hearts and souls of the denizens who populate the Democrat Marxist oriented political party as well as their equally corrupted mainstream media partners. Far too many of the arrogant mainstream media mavins speak without checking facts way, way, way too often. This time it was so egregious that they were forced to retract what they said. These people are not mentally or emotionally healthy individuals. They view anyone who does not agree with their political policies as an enemy to be taken down and destroyed. Marxism rots the soul... 

        Quote: "A comment from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas unleashed a tidal wave of criticism his way that eventually forced some media websites to alter their language while the website Politico issued a correction.

The fuss began when Thomas dissented, along with Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito, from the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case from New York state health care workers who challenged the state’s vaccine mandate on the grounds that it lacked an exemption for anyone who believed being vaccinated would violate religious beliefs. The comment within the dissent that so inflamed the media was this one: “Petitioners are 16 healthcare workers who served New York communities throughout the COVID–19 pandemic. They object on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children.”

       But, as reported by Fox News, multiple media outlets falsely stated that Thomas made the claim he said was made by health care workers. That led to a headline for Politico that screamed, “Clarence Thomas suggests Covid vaccines are developed using cells of ‘aborted children.’”

A since-deleted tweet followed to hammer home the slam. “Clarence Thomas claimed in a dissenting opinion that Covid vaccines are derived from the cells of ‘aborted children.’ No Covid vaccines in the U.S. contain the cells of aborted fetuses,” Politico wrote.

       On Friday, Politico issued a correction. “An earlier version of this report misattributed the claim that Covid-19 vaccines were ‘developed using cell lines derived from aborted children’ to Thomas. The headline and article have been updated to directly state that Thomas was referencing petitioners’ claims,” the correction read.

       The headline became, “Clarence Thomas cites claim that Covid vaccines are ‘developed using cell lines derived from aborted children.'” The website Snopes noted that any claim that Thomas said the vaccine was created from aborted children was false, and other media sites, including Axios and NBC, had to change their stories, too. Axios ran the headline, “Clarence Thomas suggests COVID vaccines are made with ‘aborted children.’” A note at the bottom of the story said, “The headline and the story have been corrected to note that Justice Thomas was referencing fetal cell lines derived from ‘aborted children’ in his dissent, not ‘aborted children.’”

       Fox News noted that NBC made changes to its reporting, starting with a headline that read, “Justice Thomas cites debunked claim that Covid vaccines are made with cells from ‘aborted children,'” and text saying “Justice Clarence Thomas expressed support Thursday for a debunked claim that all Covid vaccines are made with cells from ‘aborted children.’” NBC later changed the language to note Thomas was citing a claim made in the case.

       Although the media made a fuss over that part of Thomas’s dissent, the meat of his objection was that the court needs to issue a clear ruling on COVID-19 restrictions as they interfere with the free exercise of religion. “Yet there remains considerable confusion over whether a mandate, like New York’s, that does not exempt religious conduct can ever be neutral,” Thomas wrote in his dissent, noting that “The New York mandate includes a medical exemption but no religious exemption … The Court could give much-needed guidance by simply deciding whether that single secular exemption renders the state law not neutral and generally applicable.”

       Thomas wrote that refusing to hear the case could mean complications down the road. “Moreover, I would not miss the chance to answer this recurring question in the normal course on our merits docket. Over the last few years, the Federal Government and the States have enacted a host of emergency measures to address the COVID–19 pandemic. Many were not neutral toward religious exercise or generally applicable,” he wrote. “Here, the Court could grant a petition that squarely presents the disputed question and consider it after full briefing, argument, and deliberation. Unfortunately, the Court declines to take this prudent course. Because I would address this issue now in the ordinary course, before the next crisis forces us again to decide complex legal issues in an emergency posture, I respectfully dissent.”      Mainstream Media's Claim About Justice Thomas and Aborted Children Falls Apart Completely, Massive Correction Issued - Conservative Angle