Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing if they want to win.
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Here is the top of this thread:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112884273119572617I started it at the end of July. Depressingly, I could have written almost all of it this afternoon and it would be just as accurate.
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Trump is doing all of those things and his cult member followers keep putting up more and more signs. They love him.
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@mishi
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The press is largely owned by billionaires who've been firing anyone who speaks up for workers
Video Reveals Power Of Sinclair, As Local News Anchors Recite Script In Unison
Sinclair Broadcast Group owns more than 190 local TV stations across the country. The company recently began instructing local anchors to read a script denouncing "fake" news.
NPR (www.npr.org)
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@inthehands bought? I think the press was bought. Or fighting to get noticed by the algorithms that could be skewed a bit/a lot by their owners.
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@inthehands I was just talking to my wife about this. I don't think you can convince me that the position of certain press (or perhaps their wealthy owners) isn't that Trump is a useful idiot to install Smooth Used Car Salesman MAGA Vance. It doesn't really matter how that happens, be it ill-health or the law. The age thing, on which they're now silent, was to hopefully get an inferior candidate.
Which sounds like fringe conspiracy nonsense. I honestly don't know - I guess if the shoe fits?
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@alienghic
This is certainly true of Sinclair, Fox, etc.It may unfortunately be true of WaPo now.
I don’t think it fully explains NYT, NPR, all the broadcast networks who should know better — though certainly there is pressure behind the scenes even if it’s not from direct billionaire ownership.
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@mdione
I think it’s complicated. Some press orgs are pure right-wing propaganda efforts at this point. There are plenty of reporters, even some at those orgs, who aren’t bought and would like to do better, but can’t get their heads out of the horse race mentality. There are certainly owners who are exerting pressure down the ladder, and editors responding to that pressure. It’s a whole-system failure, complex in its details, disturbingly straightforward in its results. -
@tehstu
I don’t think it’s conspiracy nonsense to say that the people who bankroll Trump have an agenda, or to say that backroom donor pressure and flattery got Vance in the door. -
Different Drummerreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands There is no 'press' just propaganda.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Different Drummer last edited by
@DifferentDrummer
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@inthehands Weissman at NYT explains it all to us:
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Paul Cantrellreplied to PaulDavisTheFirst last edited by [email protected]
@PaulDavisTheFirst Jeez, what weak sauce from Weissman. A nonanswer to the wrong question.
