Marcy Wheeler looks at a Washington Post editorial taking Kamala Harris to task for not providing policy proposals — even as the editorial admits that WaPo has not demanded similar proposals from Trump, even as Trump provides none.
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Marcy Wheeler looks at a Washington Post editorial taking Kamala Harris to task for not providing policy proposals — even as the editorial admits that WaPo has not demanded similar proposals from Trump, even as Trump provides none.
She writes,
"Trump has been running for 21 months; his campaign is more than 90% over. The Vice President has been running 43 days; her campaign still has almost 60% to go."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #WashingtonPost
/1The Soft Bigotry of No Expectations on Trump - emptywheel
In an editorial, WaPo made yet another demand that Kamala Harris provide more details of the policies she is promising. Yet in the process, WaPo confesses that they have made no such demands in the 21 months that Trump has been running.
emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"And yet they’re putting demands on the woman in the race, making no such demand on the white male former President.
The press has gone 21 months without throwing this kind of tantrum with Donald Trump. Given that, this column says more about the failures of journalists to hold Trump accountable than it does any shortcoming on Kamala’s part."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"At some point, the traditional media needs to explain why it is so much more rabid about getting policy from Kamala than Trump.
Journalists need to come to grips, publicly, with why they apply this soft bigotry of no expectations to Donald Trump."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Kamala Harris is succeeding in accomplishing something none of Donald Trump’s adversaries have since 2016: Turning off his political oxygen supply by refusing to engage with his manufactured spectacles of insults and taunts, or with the often wholly substance-free issues that preoccupy the press."
~ David R. Lurie
Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump’s political oxygen
She's also not taking the bait from the press.
(www.publicnotice.co)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"For over a decade, nearly every non-Trump candidate has played by the same rules in their interactions with the press. The first rule was the presumption that members of the 'fourth estate' posed important and 'tough questions' because the voting public needed answers to them. The second is that any politician who refused to fully engage with and answer the press’s questions was acting dishonorably and likely had something to hide."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"But what those rules didn’t take into account is a reality that’s only grown more apparent in recent years — that the press often asks insipid questions, and indeed can easily be manipulated to serve as conduits for entirely bogus claims and theories pushed by GOP partisans."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"He commands the press."
~ Greg Olear
And to its shame, the press allows itself to be commanded. He commands, the media bow.
Commanded by that man, of all people in the world.
What does this say about the character of those who arrogate to themselves the right to mediate reality to the rest of us? About their integrity? About their moral fortitude and moral insight?
2024: The Year of the Two Incumbents
Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump is the sitting president, but both enjoy certain perquisites of incumbency. What can U.S. history teach us about what might happen in November?
(gregolear.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Parker Molloy notes how New York Times shames itself by soft-selling the extremist Hitler-quoting Moms for Liberty:
"The article, 'Conservative Moms, Charmed by Trump, Would Rather Avoid His Misogyny,' frames the group as just your average, run-of-the-mill conservative group of moms — the 'suburban women' Trump needs to appeal to if he hopes to win in November…."
~ Parker Molloy
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #NewYorkTimes #MomsforLiberty
/7Downplaying Their Bigotry, The New York Times Describes Book-Banning, Hitler-Quoting Group as "Conservative Moms"
Moms for Liberty was designated an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
(www.readtpa.com)
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SueDiOhreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Yes. This.
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JonChevreaureplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Well at least he thinks it will turn out like 1932
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
An excellent statement by Mark Jacob on what journalism isn't that begins this way:
"Journalism isn’t the mere act of turning on the microphones and letting politicians talk.
Journalism isn’t inviting proven liars to come on your TV show and lie to your audience, and then thanking them for it.
Journalism isn’t a process for normalizing a madman."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/8What journalism isn’t
We see lots of examples of how news should not be covered.
(www.stopthepresses.news)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
And Mark Jacob ends with these lines:
"Journalism isn’t measured by clicks.
Journalism isn’t measured by ratings.
Journalism isn’t measured by salaries.
Journalism isn’t a task that’s possible if you tolerate lies.
Journalism isn’t easy, but it’s damn important, and more people in the news industry need to start doing it before they wake up one day and realize that journalism has become illegal."
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Deborah Rosereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy There is definitely a double standard here for Kamala vs Trump.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Deborah Rose last edited by
@DebErupts Yes, very much so. And I think Marcy Wheeler's right to underscore the fact that they're putting demands on the woman in the race they don't make of the white man.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to JonChevreau last edited by
@JonChevreau Yes — and thanks for pointing out that his essay really wasn't about that single statement I extracted from it. As always with what he writes, it was a good, coherent essay.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SueDiOh last edited by
@SueDiOh Thanks for finding the commentary valuable.
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Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙 last edited by
@CatHerder Thank you. I had not seen this. I look forward to watching.
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Ryan Egesdahl :heart_pride:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy This is how it’s done.
Mud-slinging has been a staple of American politics since its inception. We should never have tolerated the practice in the first place, and it’s well past time to leave it behind. No more “that’s just politics” excuses. Make it stop by refusing to let it have any effect.
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Preston MacDougallreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy “#NextQuestionPlease “ is the response hack #journalists should expect more often, whenever they’re just shilling for #media #oligarchs instead of reporting the #news. #USpol