"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...
-
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
/11 -
Photoartreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
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
/12 -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
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
/13 -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Photoart last edited by
@mwmkbrady @nytimes I hear you, for sure.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Arqtec last edited by
@Arqtec Pretty one-sided, indeed.
-
KanaMaunareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I wonder what the New York Times will say if a bunch of us do a thumbs up on top of Adolph Ochs grave?
-
(((JaneinNJ))) VOTE BLUE!replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Yeah, that’s what the bottom of the front page looked like in about 1948.
-
peachfrontreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
it's simple, corporate media has chosen fascism
-
Shoninreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy The spectacle of an entire media ecosystem responding to the neighborhood extortionist by setting a little extra salami on the counter for him after being shaken down at the register. It's not going to buy respect or even protection.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Shonin last edited by
@shonin Very well-stated. I couldn't agree more.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to peachfront last edited by
@peachfront So it seems to me. Or it assumes that fascism for them will be fascism lite, and damn the rest of us.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to (((JaneinNJ))) VOTE BLUE! last edited by
@JaneinNJ Since I don't read the print edition of the New York Times — and only read digitized articles rarely — I wouldn't know. Fallows says several times in this conversation that he's a rare reader of New York Times who prefers to read the print edition. I would think in referring to that "1948" set-up, he's making a dramatic point about the place on the front page where they chose to print information about the Arlington débacle.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to KanaMauna last edited by
@KanaMauna What, indeed?
-
Kinenereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @peachfront
"First they came for..."Until the corporate press no longer is permitted.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Kinene last edited by
@c_merriweather @peachfront Yes — maybe they just haven't heard of Martin Niemöller? But you'd expect them to have done so, wouldn't you.
-
Kinenereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @peachfront I have a feeling that history is not something they studied, or read about. Or even care about.
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- Santayana
-
Rob Cinos :verified:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Trump's 'New Tone'. Lolololol.
-
Sprungreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy gosh yes.
All of this.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Sprung last edited by
@rightsprung Thank you. So it does seem to me.