Sarah Scire reports that publications endorsing Harris, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Guardian, are capitalizing on the controversy Jeff Bezos has caused by yanking a Washington Post endorsement of Harris.

William Lindsey :toad:

Sarah Scire reports that publications endorsing Harris, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Guardian, are capitalizing on the controversy Jeff Bezos has caused by yanking a Washington Post endorsement of Harris. Other publications endorsing Harris are now racking up new subscribers.

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #PhiladelphiaInquirer #Guardian
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The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs

The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.

Nieman Lab (www.niemanlab.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

"The Guardian U.S. might be one of the biggest winners. …

U.S. readers pledged $2.16 million [to The Guardian's fundraising campaign]. (That’s an additional $1.5 million since Saturday night.) The campaign broke the Guardian U.S. record for fundraising twice; first setting a one-day record on Friday with $485,000 raised and then topping that on Saturday with an additional $619,000 raised."

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #PhiladelphiaInquirer #Guardian
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Independent analysts such as Edison Research said in March that X’s usage in the United States dropped 30 percent since last year. Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover."

~ Robert Reich

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #Twitter #EconomicElites #Trump
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-bezos-and-musk-want-from-trump

William Lindsey :toad:

"I’d hoped (forlornly) that all major outlets would see the rush for the exits at the Post and start asking themselves whether they’re taking their own subscribers for granted. Seems they did not."

~ Brian Beutler

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
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AMA Thursday

Cancel culture.

(www.offmessage.net)

Mark Squires :orangewine:

@wdlindsy Yay! Phila. Inquirer deserves new subscribers and doesn't have a "Bad Billionaire" model of ownership. The company is owned by The Philadelphia Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia. Philanthropist Gerry Lenfest bought it in 2014 and donated it in 2016 to that non-profit. With new money, they could have more resources for investigative reporting.

Bezos could donate WaPo too. But the Bad Billionaire model prevents it, I guess.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

jami

@wdlindsy So far, chewy.com and my local grocery store are picking up my canceled Amazon subscriptions.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Bezos is right to worry about waning trust in the media. But he does not understand that people like him are in large part responsible for this distrust, and that cosplaying as a pundit while pandering to the worst-faith actors in American politics is not a plan for restoring it."

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
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~ Jay Willis

Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem

Brace yourself, but The Washington Post’s owner’s decision to destroy his paper’s credibility in order to restore trust in journalism may have a few flaws in its logic.

The New Republic (newrepublic.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Readers do not distrust opinion journalists for forming opinions and sharing them with the public. They distrust condescending, ham-fisted plutocrats who have no blessed idea what they’re talking about, moving fast and breaking stuff."

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
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William Lindsey :toad:

"In the final week of the presidential campaign, the country’s two most prominent newspapers extended into a second day their credulous coverage of Republicans’ fake outrage over President Biden’s 'garbage' comment.

The NYT and WaPo each made it a front-page story in Thursday’s editions, with above-the-fold, prime-real-estate treatment."

~ David Kurtz

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again

INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... John Roberts

(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

Kurtz quotes New York Times Pitchbot, which writes,

"Biden calling Trump supporters 'garbage' in a webcam interview is a moral outrage. Here’s why Trump calling Harris supporters 'garbage' at a rally is not."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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Σειληνός (Seilēnós)

@wdlindsy

Wm.son

@wdlindsy

It's about ad revenue...

jonathanpeterson

@wdlindsy That's the best news I've heard all day. I've been looking for a new news source to pay for - had already walked away from the NYT and now the WaPo over their coverage. Guardian had become one of my main online sources and their US coverage is quite good. Now if only weekly alt newspapers hadn't died - because there's very limited coverage of local news, even in a city the size of Atlanta.

Sarah Grisham

@wdlindsy Just here to say that I canceled my New York Times subscription in 2016 because “her emails” and WaPo the minute Will Lewis was named its publisher. I haven’t ordered from Amazon or subscribed to Prime in years. Please join me, good people who haven’t done so yet. #BoycottTheOligarchs #ShopLocal #SupportNonprofitMedia

IamSheilaforHarris

@wdlindsy @xerophile OK, so maybe Joe shouldn't have called Trump and his followers, brown shirt henchmen and acolytes "garbage." Agreed. Calling them "trash" or "dregs" or "rubbish" would have been enough. #garbage #WaPo

William Lindsey :toad:

"Nobody tells the elite reporters that they’re terrible at their job, and they think their job is to report the same thing all the other news outlets are reporting."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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~ Paul Waldman

The News Media Have Learned Nothing

The election is just days away, and reporters are making the worst possible choices.

(paulwaldman.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"As the election approaches, the reporting gets worse — policy issues are pushed aside, the most ludicrous micro-controversies are given front-page treatment, more and more attention is paid to increasingly useless polls and pointless speculation, and they ride into election day on a wave of triviality. ...

The most disheartening thing about all this is how it shows our elite media have learned nothing."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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William Lindsey :toad:

"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."

~ Seth Abramson

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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FACT CHECK: No, President Biden Didn’t Call Donald Trump Supporters “Garbage”

The viral lie—spread to hundreds of millions by Trump and Elon Musk and the subject of a bizarre publicity stunt by Trump aimed at making voters forget what happened at Madison Square Garden—is silly.

(sethabramson.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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William Lindsey :toad:

"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'

That really did happen.

And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?

If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
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