Read the Room USC: DEI and ‘Race Journalism’ is So Biden Administration

The USC Center for Health Journalism breathlessly announced, “Learn how to get ahead of misinformation.”

They are offering a seminar today to journalists on “how to get ahead of misinformation.”

Isn’t that rich?

USC Center for Health Journalist practices “Impact Reporting” in which they report on “timely health, social welfare and equity topics,” and “Collaborative Reporting” in which they “teamed up with six ethnic media organizations in California to report together on health equity,” among other projects.

Social justice.

The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a collaboration, which is funded by the shady The California Endowment, The Annie E. Casey Foundation,  Blue Shield of California Foundation, California Health Care Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, Doris Duke Foundation, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This is what they claim in today’s seminar:

The volume of misinformation, misleading claims and biased language entering the national conversation has reached a fever pitch. To meet this moment, journalists increasingly need to fact-check and contextualize claims in real time — whether during live hearings or breaking news events.

Isn’t the very job of a journalist to “fact-check and contextualize claims in real time — whether during live hearings or breaking news events?”

In this webinar, viewers will learn:

➜ Practical strategies for anticipating misinformation and countering harmful tropes without slowing down coverage.

➜ How to recognize coded language and dehumanizing or racist tropes in the moment — and how to respond journalistically in a politically charged environment.

➜ Tools, workflows and ethical considerations to help deliver speed and rigor on crucial health topics under pressure.

What in fresh hell is “coded language and dehumanizing or racist tropes?”

Teaching this smashing course is “race writer” Kat Stafford, “the global race and justice editor for Reuters, where she leads coverage of race, identity and social justice across the world,” her bio states.

So, let me get this straight… the USC Center for Health Journalism is offering a seminar today to “Learn how to get ahead of misinformation,” and it is being taught by “the global race and justice editor for Reuters.

George Orwell, please call your office.

“Prior to joining Reuters, Stafford was a national investigative race writer and global investigations correspondent at the Associated Press. She has received several awards for her work and was recently named the recipient of the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s 2023 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism. She was a 2022 University of Michigan Knight-Wallace fellow, where she published a five-part investigative, multimedia series examining how health inequities have impacted generations of Black Americans.”

This “Learn how to get ahead of misinformation” seminar is reminiscent of C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters,” the Christian allegory of a senior demon’s letters to his nephew, advising him on how to tempt humans away from God.

This is just so bizarre. I don’t recall the USC Center for Health Journalism critical of California’s 2023 law to punish doctors for spreading “Covid misinformation,” signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. AB 2098 punished physicians and surgeons for “unprofessional conduct” for advocating for the potential benefits of early treatment with off-label drugs, or those who dare to ask questions about COVID vaccine safety.

The unconstitutional law was smacked down by a federal judge. It cannot be overstated how illegal/unconstitutional, prejudicial and harmful this law was, and despite being warned, Gov. Newsom signed it into law. “AB 2098” should be used in every sentence with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s name in every media story about the authoritarian governor who locked down an entire state of 40 million people for nearly three years over a flu.

Read the room USC – DEI and “race journalism” is So Biden Administration. This is why so many are disgusted with mainstream, legacy media.