As Joan Walsh notes, the beltway media got their Harris interview by shrieking about her policy — the new "But her emails!" media shriek of this election cycle. So now can we move on?
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As Joan Walsh notes, the beltway media got their Harris interview by shrieking about her policy — the new "But her emails!" media shriek of this election cycle. So now can we move on?
And while we're at it, where's the shriek about HIS (nonexistent) policies?
And what does the disparity between how the corporate media treat Trump and Harris tell us about the corporate media and their agenda?
~ Joan Walsh
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
Speaking of the media's failure to address the political choices now facing Americans responsibly — and I do and will keep speaking of that failure — see Parker Molloy on how corporate media gave Trump and the Republicans yet another win by both-sidesisng his atrocious and grossly offensive p-r stunt at Arlington National Cemetery.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/2How the Media Let Trump Off the Hook for His Arlington National Cemetery Stunt
Mainstream outlets downplayed a blatant violation of sacred norms, turning a clear scandal into a partisan dispute.
(www.readtpa.com)
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Dan Froomkin on three ways corporate media dan redeem themselves prior to the election:
1. Identify a key issue and explain what’s at stake, focusing on the candidates' responses.
2. Identify highly trafficked falsehoods and debunk them,
3. Take a poll to determine what people believe about the current state of affairs in this country. Then identify those beliefs that are factually incorrect.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/33 ways the mainstream media can redeem itself before Election Day
There’s been a lot written lately by media observers urging our top political reporters to stop the contorted bothsidesing horse-race coverage that diminishes the stakes of the upcoming election.
(criticalread.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"My criticism concerns the very premise of the [NYTimes] article [about Trump and Harris' 'housing plans'] —allowing with straight face a Trump spokesperson to sell mass deportation as a housing policy. A reality-based article might then relate in plain English that to the extent that a housing policy can be divined, it’s wholly rooted in an authoritarian, racist (and expensive!) proposal to deport millions of people."
~ Michael Tomasky
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/4The Media Are About to Help Trump Fail His Way Back to the White House
A truly idiotic Politico headline. A deeply embarrassing Times piece on Trump’s housing “policy.” How can these people be doing this again?
The New Republic (newrepublic.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The media’s failing today is the 'fairness' impulse and the urge to put this concept of fairness ahead of truth. I understand why they indulge the impulse—they believe that it will keep MAGA off their backs (although any amount of real reflection would reveal that it doesn’t even do that, really). Is it serving readers to pretend that mass deportations are a housing policy?"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Is it serving readers to pretend that mass deportations are a housing policy? Reporters and editors need to stop worrying so much about whether what they’re producing is fair and worry a lot more about whether it’s true."
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@wdlindsy I want to hurl cast iron pans into every computer screen at the Times, hand them all a steno pad and a pen, tell them to go out and find the facts and if they can’t corroborate with three legitimate sources, don’t come back.
The false equivalency narrative reeks of years where fossil fuel industry paid w ad buys to weaken science but the wanton disregard for plausible logic and giving oxygen to racism that is steaming out of the Times is unforgivable cow manure.
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@jodmentum Excellent point: "The false equivalency narrative reeks of years where fossil fuel industry paid w ad buys to weaken science but the wanton disregard for plausible logic and giving oxygen to racism that is steaming out of the Times is unforgivable cow manure."
And before that, the tobacco industry, which wrote the script about this — with total media complicity.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Musa Nony last edited by
@jadugar63 Well-noted and well-stated.
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"This 'sanewashing' of Trump’s statements isn’t just poor journalism; it’s a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy. By continually reframing Trump’s incoherent and often dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, major news outlets are failing in their duty to inform the public and are instead providing cover for increasingly erratic behavior from a former—and potentially future—president."
~ Parker Molloy
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/7From Rambling to Rational: The Media’s Trump Sanewashing Problem
The political press’s efforts to rationalize Trump’s incoherent statements are eroding our shared reality and threatening informed democracy.
The New Republic (newrepublic.com)
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Greengordonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
The NYT can't go bankrupt soon enough.
"Voters who rely solely on traditional news sources are presented with a version of Trump that bears little resemblance to reality. They see a former president who, while controversial, appears to operate within the bounds of normal political discourse—or at worst, is breaking with it in some kind of refreshing manner."
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Rachel Rawlingsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy As a former VP said of Trump: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind."
(It was Dan Quayle, and he was actually fucking up the United Negro College Fund slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," in a speech before the UNCF!)
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:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It's almost like almost all media is owned by conservatives literally paying their employees to lie about Trump...
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
The execrable A. G. Sulzberger New York Times recently defended this practice as... get this...
Coherency Bias
Apparently the New York Times crack reporters just have a preference for things that make sense, so that's what they report, independent of the reality of things.
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Russell1898replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Politicians have always spun stories and “facts” to suit their political agendas, Republicans more so than Democrats. That’s not new. What’s new and different in the last ten years is the blatant, abusive, corrupt, dangerous fabrications perpetrated by ex45 and his ilk. It’s the sort of thing one would have seen in 1940s Argentina. Even the Perons didn’t sink to the level we see today. Don’t cry for me.
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Simplicatorreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It’s
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Simplicatorreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Froomkin has no power analysis
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Simplicator last edited by
@Simplicator Sorry, but I'm not sure what that means.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Simplicator last edited by
@Simplicator You're right about that.