"Remember just about a month ago when the news media told you of a 'new softness' emanating from a 'changed Donald Trump' and lauded his call for 'unity' in a Republican convention speech in which he managed to go a few moments at the very beginning wi...
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"Fifteen-hundred words on the 2003 — again, this was in 2003 — Kamala Harris campaign mailer that said she’d 'tried' hundreds of cases when the correct verb was 'prosecuted.' Simply stunning, ABC News. Here’s what that looks like on the ABC News homepage."
~ Rebecca Schoenkopf
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #ABC #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/3I Will Never Go In The Ocean Again. Tabs, Fri., Aug. 30, 2024
Morning news roundup!
(www.wonkette.com)
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"I wish I could point to a major media report detailing the incoherence and mental deterioration, but alas! When Biden stutters, it is on every front page; but the media looks away when Trump says, 'Nobody eats bacon any more. This was caused by their horrible energy. Wind. The want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a problem.'"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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"Many of the purported 'fact-checks' go beyond verifying Democrats’ statements and instead serve as political spin for Trump, giving him an unearned benefit of the doubt that almost ignores he actually was president and has an established record of deceit and malicious incompetence.
The error that fact-checkers consistently make is taking Trump’s assertions and denials at face value."
~ Stephen Robinson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media
/5What's wrong with the fact-checkers?
The DNC put the bankruptcy of the genre on full, painful display.
(www.publicnotice.co)
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"They still treat the convicted felon like someone who operates in good faith, which often results in wish-casting and the 'sane-washing' of Trump’s blather. Democrats, meanwhile, are held to an impossibly literal standard where routine exaggerations and rhetorical flourishes are treated like whoppers.
Trump’s statements are decontextualized, while those from Democrats are relentlessly scrutinized."
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"The impact is a proliferation of false equivalencies that normalize Republican liars. ...
The media’s 'both sides' approach to fact-checking creates the false impression that Harris and Trump stretch the truth in equal measure, but Harris’s supposed rounding errors on Social Security or slight embellishments about job numbers are nowhere in the same universe as Trump’s pathological distortions and contempt for the truth."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism
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"Nitpick Harris to death if you must, but stop treating convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and indicted coup plotter Trump like a traditional candidate rather than an existential threat to democracy."
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It is beyond US politics too.
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"The pendulum doesn’t swing both ways in this narrative. Republicans are not regularly asked to include Democrats as part of their leadership teams. The press does not approach reporting on economic and social issue with the lens that the conservative Republican positions are largely way out of step with the public while the Democratic, center-left, positions are.
~ Oliver Willis
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/9Republicans Don’t Deserve A Seat At The Table
To Earn It You Must Deserve It
(www.oliverexplains.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Sprung last edited by
@rightsprung I think you're right. The media and the culture they're promoting have much to answer for: the abandonment of substance for profitable clickbait; the refusal to say bluntly that a lie is a lie; the substitution of entertainment for serious news analysis; the lack of moral (as in, honesty, decency, fairness) standards as criteria for judging whether a journalist is worth hiring.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lolonurse last edited by
@lolonurse There's that, definitely!
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climate voter/eco leftistreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy What did we learn from this interview? Nothing. It was just a series of gotchas without any value. There are better questions to ask and better ways to ask them.
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@wdlindsy I saw that piece of the speech. I still don't get the link between bacon and wind energy! Not even if I try to imagine something brilliant...
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@EvelineSulman I think our brains would break if we tried to figure out the nonsense rattling around in that empty head.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Jimijamflimflam 👻🎃💀 last edited by
@Jimijamflimflam I see people suggesting that in various pieces of commentary today.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to climate voter/eco leftist last edited by
@tmstreet I'd say that corporate media are decisively broken, and interviews like this show us that clearly — but they themselves don't want to recognize that, so they keep on doing the same old, same old as they convince themselves they have the same old power to mediate realiity to all of us. When they don't….
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Arqtecreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Watching Trump's Campaign is like watching the version of BatMan where Jack Nickleson is the Joker.....Wait till they see me now ?
Trump can win on Character ?
Yeah.....
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Wajahat Ali asks James Fallows, "What the F happened to the New York Times?" Fallows responds:
"My hypothesis is, the one fear that surmounts everything else in the New York Times editorial universe when it comes to politics is criticism from the right for having a leftward bias."
Then he adds,
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/10What The F#*K is Wrong With The New York Times?
Why is the paper of record failing so absymally ahead of the 2024 election when our literal democracy is at stake? Journalist James Fallows dissects what's wrong with the NYT and offers remedies.
(thelefthook.substack.com)
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Ali responds that this appears to be "performative neutrality" "to placate a political force that will never like them." He adds:
"And it's not just the New York Times. It's the entire media ecosystem."
Fallows provides an example of the serious problem: in 2016, over and over, New York Times blared front-page articles taking up the whole front page to the "But her emails" meme about Hillary Clinton.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #NewYorkTimes
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