{"id":45692,"date":"2022-05-19T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45692"},"modified":"2022-05-19T07:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:05:30","slug":"sometimes-the-spin-is-very-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45692","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes ‘The Spin’ Is Very Entertaining"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Steven Hayward posted an article at Power Line Blog<\/a> about a breaking news story being reported by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Steven Hayward reports:<\/p>\n

Today is offering a surfeit of feel-good news, but this one came in too late for the pervious post. The Washington Post<\/em> is just up with the breaking story<\/a> that the Biden Administration has decided to \u201cpause\u201d (but almost certainly shut down) the mis-named \u201cDisinformation Governance Board\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being \u201cpaused,\u201d according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course of reporting of this story. On Monday, DHS decided to shut down the board, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. By Tuesday morning, Jankowicz had drafted a resignation letter in response to the board\u2019s dissolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Tuesday night, Jankowicz was pulled into an urgent call with DHS officials who gave her the choice to stay on, even as the department\u2019s work was put on hold because of the backlash it faced, according to multiple people with knowledge of the call. Working groups within DHS focused on mis-, dis- and mal-information have been suspended. The board could still be shut down pending a review from the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Jankowicz is evaluating her position within the department.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is The Washington Post headline at the time of this article:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I hadn’t realized that free speech was such a partisan issue. I do notice that the headline is a little vague about where the disinformation is coming from–do they mean the White House is going to stop releasing disinformation?<\/p>\n

The article at Power Line Blog concludes:<\/p>\n

And \u201cexperts\u201d\u2014the mainstream media\u2019s favorite sources for their ventriloquist journalism\u2014show up for duty:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experts say<\/span> that right-wing disinformation and smear campaigns regularly follow the same playbook and that it\u2019s crucial that the public and leaders of institutions, especially in the government, the media and educational bodies, understand more fully how these cycles operate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is absolutely nothing I can add to that statement.<\/p>\n

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