"It is long past time for journalism to abandon Twitter." To say the least: #Mediahttps://werd.io/2024/journalists---is-twitter-actually-your-community
#RSS #enshittification #media #news
From @pluralistic :
'Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading. And here's the best part: every time you use RSS, you bring that world closer into being! '
The #indictment charges 2 #RussiaToday [#RT] employees w/providing nearly $10M to the #media company that often spouted #Kremlin talking points.
In response to the charges, the pundits & their allies are saying they just didn’t know any better. In fact, they’re the real victims.
🎻
[open your freaking eyes, listen to the widely available intelligence, educate your-damn-self, fools!]
#complicity#RightWing#MAGA#Republicans#TenetMedia#RussianPropaganda#Russia#StateMedia #law #democracy
"The assassination attempt? Zero follow-up on the motives of the shooter, or how crazy it is that he was a registered Republican, or how exactly Donold’s ear magically healed within one week without so much as a scar. ...
BURN IN HELL, CORPORATE MEDIA!
THE LORD HAS SPOKEN!
Can I get an amen?"
"While it was just six weeks ago that another presumptive nominee was forced out of the race due to concerns about his advanced age and declining mental acuity, the mainstream media no longer seems all that interested in the other party’s 78-year-old candidate sundowning before our very eyes."
~ Justin Baragona
#KamalaHarris #Biden#Trump #media#BothSidesism#FalseEquivalence #age
/4
"As has been the case since he first rode down that golden escalator nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump continues to be graded on a curve by our national media."
#KamalaHarris #Biden#Trump #media#BothSidesism#FalseEquivalence #age
/5
Why do journalists ignore Trump's mental decline when it's so obvious to the rest of us? Paul Waldman's answer:
"They think Trump acts crazy, but they have decided it’s all an act, and that’s as far as they need to probe. …
Yet for the last couple of years, they were positively obsessed with Joe Biden’s mental acuity."
#KamalaHarris #Biden#Trump #media#BothSidesism#FalseEquivalence #age#MentalDecline
/6
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-reporters-wont-talk
"So it turns out that reporters do not hold a universally applied principle saying that presidents and presidential aspirants should be constantly assessed for their mental capacity. That was just a Biden thing, because reporters create a unique set of criteria to judge each candidate, always claiming that they are applying the same standards to all."
Putting thumbs on scales much?
#KamalaHarris #Biden#Trump #media#BothSidesism#FalseEquivalence #age#MentalDecline
/7
“'We have a damaged, delusional, old man who again might get reelected to the presidency of the United States,' Mike Barnicle, who served as a longtime columnist for The Boston Globe and other newspapers, said on Morning Joe early Wednesday."
#KamalaHarris #Biden#Trump #media#BothSidesism#FalseEquivalence #age#MentalDecline
/8
https://newrepublic.com/article/185622/finally-top-journo-erupts-media-ignoring-trumps-mental-state
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.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/how-the-media-let-trump-off-the-hook
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.
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/3-ways-the-mainstream-media-can-redeem
"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
https://newrepublic.com/article/185528/media-trump-moms-liberty-2024
"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?"
"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."
"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
https://newrepublic.com/article/185530/media-criticism-trump-sanewashing-problem
"CNN's recent 'undecided voter' panel, meant to capture reactions to Kamala Harris's speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, has morphed into a full-blown media debacle. What should have been a straightforward segment has instead unleashed a flood of questions about voter representation, journalistic integrity, and the blurry line between informing the public and potentially pulling a fast one on viewers."
Parker Molloy
https://www.readtpa.com/p/how-did-a-vocal-trump-supporter-end
"Dear Humans,
The news media is making God go crazy again. Lo, they’re bending over backwards like Neo in The Matrix to help Donald any way they can. Just behold this forking excrement from CBS News…."
~ God
God focuses on a disgraceful CBS headline with a "fact check" saying Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025 (in their dreams).
#KamalaHarris#Trump #media#CorporateMedia#CBS#Project2025
/7
https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt-stop-claiming-donald-has
"You might think the Democrats’ surge occurred in spite of their posture toward legacy media. Or you might think it happened because of it.
Clearly, political strategists don’t need traditional media as much as they once did. And the media have richly earned this drop in status."
~ Mark Jacobs
#KamalaHarris#Trump #media#CorporateMedia
/1
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/mainstream-media-on-a-path-to-irrelevance
"In fact, as MeidasTouch reported, just a brief look at the panelist’s social media history would prove they were never an undecided voter in the first place.
This is part of a broader problem with the Press, wherein it’s become increasingly difficult for us to trust what they are reporting."
"CNN's recent 'undecided voter' panel, meant to capture reactions to Kamala Harris's speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, has morphed into a full-blown media debacle. What should have been a straightforward segment has instead unleashed a flood of questions about voter representation, journalistic integrity, and the blurry line between informing the public and potentially pulling a fast one on viewers."
Parker Molloy
https://www.readtpa.com/p/how-did-a-vocal-trump-supporter-end
"Too many political journalists are marinating in the Washington cocktail culture, writing for each other and for their sources – in service to the political industry, not the public.
Wiith Trump’s successful campaign of lies eight years ago should have come an aggressive reassessment by the media."