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A woke USA Today columnist who covers sports and Major League Baseball, Bob Nightengale, wrote an article on Wednesday detailing his decision not to describe the Atlanta Braves using the team’s nickname just days after he repeatedly referred to the team as the “Braves” in tweets and articles.
In his column “MLB, club won’t budge on Atlanta baseball team’s nickname, but here’s why I won’t use it,” Nightengale explains that he “just hate[s] its nickname, believing it’s racist and offensive,” and is “stunned” that neither the club nor the MLB commissioner has renounced it.
“While I can’t stop the tomahawk chop or make Atlanta change its name, what I can do is not acknowledge the nickname,” Nightengale wrote. “In recent years, I have tried to avoid using Atlanta’s nickname in columns. I find it offensive, and after talking and listening to Native American leaders, friends and associates, it only fortifies my belief. Copy editors have occasionally changed it in my copy because until now this has been my private stance.”
Despite Nightengale’s insistence that he is against the use of the team’s nickname, he has repeatedly used it recently. And even if the mentions of the “Braves” in his articles were the work of a copy editor, Nightengale has also used the name in his recent tweets. He literally used it 5 days ago. pic.twitter.com/q2kZDoQVHG — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 28, 2021 In an article published on Oct. 18 , Nightengale used the “Braves” at least five times. Just two days before Nightengale’s new column criticizing the team’s nickname was published, USA Today retroactively scrubbed any mention of the “Braves” from his column titled “Mighty Dodgers are reeling, frustrated after two walk-off NLCS wins for the Braves,” replacing it with “Atlanta.”
Other recent articles from Nightengale still display the “Braves” nickname on his author page, but the article pages themselves are all edited to omit any mention of what the columnist has dubbed a “deeply insulting and offensive” term. A quick search of Nightengale’s Twitter also shows that the writer frequently engaged the team’s nickname up until just a few days ago. […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker