The section with the "Hall of Shame" for media that allegedly distort the actions of U.S. authorities has appeared on the White House website. Among the "media offenders of the week" are CBS News and The Boston Globe.
The White House has launched a page on its website titled "Media Offenders," which features English-language media outlets and links to their articles that allegedly distort the actions of the U.S. authorities. The project appeared on Saturday, November 29, according to data from the online archive Wayback Machine.
The page, published in the "Media" section, consists of several parts. At the top is the headline "Misleading. Biased. Exposed," followed by a list of the "media offenders of the week" - The Boston Globe, the news division of CBS News, and the American edition of the British newspaper The Independent.
These publications, according to the White House, "distorted President Trump's words by presenting his call to hold members of Congress accountable for inciting insurrection as if he called for their 'execution.'"
"Hall of Shame"
The next section is titled "Hall of Shame of Offenders," in which the White House administration published a "list of false and misleading media reports." A summary table lists numerous English-language media outlets, articles that have displeased U.S. authorities, and their authors.
For example, one of the accusations against CBS News concerns the fact that the publication referred to a "grandfather from Colorado" in the headline of its article about a deported "illegal from Cuba who had been arrested 27 times." The newspaper Politico was accused by the White House of "bias" and "omitting context" because in its article, a source referred to U.S. Special Envoy Stephen Whitcoff, who is working on a plan to end the war in Ukraine, as incompetent.
"Leaderboard" and "Recidivists"
The next section - the "Leaderboard" or "downward race" - features an animation with the top 7 media outlets by the number of "offenses." The list is topped by The Washington Post, followed by MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, and the newspapers The New York Times, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal.
The final section is a chart with "recidivists." This is a more extensive version of the "Leaderboard," which includes not only other media outlets (such as the news portal Axios, the Associated Press agency, and the BBC) but also information about the number and nature of the "offenses" of each publication. For example, the news portal about politics and pop culture The Daily Beast has only one "offense," but three accusations - of "bias, leftist madness, and lies."
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