The Core

Red-handed :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWRCECbN-Y

Imagine getting the hospital staff to pretend to be patients, i'm sure they have a lot more important work to be getting on with!

It was a good news piece but underhanded behaviour not worthy of any self-respecting journalists.

In a 2018 book on propaganda and disinformation in U.S. politics, three Harvard University scholars refer to Project Veritas as a "right-wing disinformation outfit".

In March 2020, The New York Times published an exposé detailing Project Veritas' use of spies recruited by Erik Prince, to infiltrate "Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda". The Times piece notes O'Keefe's and Prince's close links to the Trump administration, and details contributions such as a $1m transfer of funds from an undisclosed source to support their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas


 

     How quickly things seem to fall apart when James O’Keefe is the person who put them together.

O’Keefe’s incriminating ACORN video was shown to have been heavily edited — neither he nor Hannah Giles were actually in pimp and prostitute get-up when they spoke to ACORN employees, for example — and no criminal prosecutions of ACORN followed. While not letting ACORN off the hook for showing “terrible judgment” in the video, California’s then-attorney general Jerry Brown noted after an investigation into the tapes and the organization that “sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor.”

    Those same words now seem applicable to the latest O’Keefe sting, which further tarnished NPR’s reputation and took down its CEO. As we noted, Glenn Beck’s conservative website, The Blaze, was first to report on discrepancies between the first edited eleven-and-a-half minute video released on the Project Veritas website and a later, unedited two-hour version … NPR media reporter David Folkenflik addressed the dubious editing on Morning Edition and in a written report for NPR’s website. Folkenflik reviewed the two tapes himself, along with some NPR colleagues and outsiders like The Blaze’s editor-in-chief Scott Baker and Poynter’s Al Tompkins. They home in on many of the same problems The Blaze pointed out. And they basically come to the same conclusion: the tape is still a problem, but the impression it leaves is different.

    “I tell my children there are two ways to lie,” Tompkins said. “One is to tell me something that didn’t happen, and the other is not to tell me something that did happen. I think they employed both techniques in this.”

https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/10/18/project-veritas-election-videos/

An update of sorts from Washpost : https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/06/cbs-news-edits-testing-story-after-project-veritas-exposes-clinics-line-stuffing-ploy/

Of course every media outlet has it's biases, i completely agree, that's why it's important to listen to the people with boots on the ground.

My point is that what's more important, the story from the people who work there, or who films them telling their story?

In the first instance the hospital workers said it was the CBS crew who got them to 'make it look busier', so with this event i see it as irrelevant who is holding the camera and the mic when it's the hospital staff who are relating what happened.