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How Poor Journalistic Ethics Kneecapped MAGA

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Posted By: Hazymac, 11/4/2025 10:21:11 AM

Maybe now they’ll listen. For roughly the past twenty-five years, I’ve been warning conservatives to not get careless when practicing journalism. Yes, it was fine to discover charismatic stars like Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro, but if the right wanted to build a competitor to the corrupt mainstream media there had to be ethical guardrails. If we were sloppy our work would not be considered credible. We might even wind up looking like fools. I was ignored, so now comes the hangover. The controversy about Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes and about Candace Owens pushing conspiracy theories is essentially a problem of journalistic ethics.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mariboo72 11/4/2025 10:59:39 AM (No. 2025727)
I would agree that it's unacceptable for conservative journalists to be careless and inaccurate. We all complain about the falsities and inaccuracies in the MSM, so we should do better. But Mr.Judge seems to be more upset that his name wasn't mentioned or he wasn't consulted for books and articles written about the Kavanaugh case.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: felixcat 11/4/2025 11:11:01 AM (No. 2025729)
Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro are journalists? Like the other "journalists" on all the news stations (left and right) - they're all just talking heads spouting off with their opinions - seriously. I don't need to watch Fox and Friends Weekday or Weekends (barely watchable now) or any show on CNN, etc to tell me how or what to think.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: chumley 11/4/2025 11:28:03 AM (No. 2025741)
They are not journalists. They are commentators. And just like the left, they are free to state their opinions whatever they are. If I dont like them, I wont read their stuff. See how freedom works?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 11/4/2025 1:01:20 PM (No. 2025802)
Carlson and Owens are scammers. It's just that simple.
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