"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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"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 doesnβt 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 Donβt 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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Eveline Sulman last edited by
@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 π»ππ 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 β 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'tβ¦.
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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.....
And V.D. can be cured by just jackingoff....
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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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
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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But re: the story of Trump's desecration of Arlington National Cemetery, this:
"The New York Times for this story of significant consequence had, at the very very bottom [in its print edition], sort of the part of the front page that doesn't even look like news stories any more, it looks like paid ads for butcher shops or used car dealers, they had this little tiny box at the bottom."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #NewYorkTimes
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Ali responds that we see big-name journalists at New York Times "acting like contrarian trolls" on Twitter to bait the libs. The effect of this behavior:"the normalization of Trump's lies and cruelty and the creation of an asymmetrical reality."
Then he adds that, when we see that Hillary Clinton lost "by just a nose hair" as the Times obsessed re: her emails, we have to ask about the effect of such behavior.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #NewYorkTimes
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Photoart last edited by
@mwmkbrady @nytimes I hear you, for sure.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Arqtec last edited by
@Arqtec Pretty one-sided, indeed.