William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
"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

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
"This weekend, my friends at MeidasTouch dropped a bombshell report revealing that one of the supposed undecided panelists was in fact already a Trump supporter.

The panelist now claims that he told CNN multiple times that he was a Trump supporter, and says they still insisted on including him in the segment."

~ Scott Dworkin

#KamalaHarris#Trump #media#CorporateMedia#CNN #undecided
/4

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-looks-horrible-for-cnn

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
"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."

#KamalaHarris#Trump #media#CorporateMedia#CNN #undecided
/5

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
"This weekend, my friends at MeidasTouch dropped a bombshell report revealing that one of the supposed undecided panelists was in fact already a Trump supporter.

The panelist now claims that he told CNN multiple times that he was a Trump supporter, and says they still insisted on including him in the segment."

~ Scott Dworkin

#KamalaHarris#Trump #media#CorporateMedia#CNN #undecided
/4

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-looks-horrible-for-cnn

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
"Fascists appropriate national symbols & values. Kamala Harris & Tim Walz are taking them back. …

The vast majority of Americans are tired of the psyops, the propaganda, the hatred and the lies. I’m seeing people on the margins make a change, people who are tired of fascist performance art being all we talk about.

Make America Normal Again."

~ Jim Stewartson

#KamalaHarris#DNC#WereNotGoingBack#NotGoingBack #media
/29

https://www.mind-war.com/p/make-america-normal-again

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
"The old school news media that Democrats used to need to get their message out is no longer their only option. The DNC has made a serious, deliberate effort to make room for hundreds of content creators and influencers. These newcomers have gotten coveted passes to the convention floor and workspace in the DNC’s new creator lounge and creator platform."

~ Max Tani

#Biden#Democrats#DNC#KamalaHarris#TimWalz #media
/8

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/19/2024/a-friendly-media-grows-grumbly-in-chicago

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 months ago
As Jared Yates Sexton notes, the corporate media's reaction to Kamala Harris' economic proposals "tells you everything you need to know about the state of things."

She's "rolled out some common-sense, liberal economic plans," but media gurus want to pretend these aren't bona fide policy proposals or a policy agenda. Rather, they're visionary vibes that have no substance to them, the talking heads say.

#KamalaHarris #Biden #economy #inflation #greedflation #media
/6

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/when-you-actually-propose-change

The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
📣We’re urging newsrooms to improve their election coverage!

Today, the Media and Democracy Project, along with 3,258 individuals, sent an open letter to executives, publishers, and union leaders of major media orgs urging them to adopt our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines.

Americans need press coverage that portrays the stakes of this election.

Read our open letter, see our guidelines and who's signed, and add your name here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#Media#Democracy
1/6

The Media & Democracy Project
The Media & Democracy Project  ·  3 months ago
📣We’re urging newsrooms to improve their election coverage!

Today, the Media and Democracy Project, along with 3,258 individuals, sent an open letter to executives, publishers, and union leaders of major media orgs urging them to adopt our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines.

Americans need press coverage that portrays the stakes of this election.

Read our open letter, see our guidelines and who's signed, and add your name here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#Media#Democracy
1/5

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
Inside #Project2025’s Secret Training Videos

“Eradicate #ClimateChange references”; only talk to #conservative #media; don’t leave a paper trail for watchdogs to discover [ #criminal activity]. In a series of never-before-published videos, Project 2025 details how a second #Trump admin would operate.

#Vance#HeritageFoundation #extremism #radicalization#FarRight
#law #democracy#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland  ·  4 months ago
If our political press didn't instinctively normalize Trump and edit his ramblings into something linear and semi-coherent, I think his consistent inability to answer a simple question would be a much bigger story than a normal candidate not doing a formal presser in two weeks.

Has he *ever* given an intelligible answer to a question? It's weird not to.

Note that Haake says he only posted this because he knew *the question* was hard to follow.

#Media #trump #Election2024

Garrett Haake posts an excerpt of a transcript because he “understand[s] the questions at today's news conference were very hard to hear": +++ON BANNING MIFEPRISTONE +++ 14;54;47 HAAKE: There are other things the federal government can do, not just a ban. Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? That's one of the things that's been discussed. 14:54:54 TRUMP: You could do things that will be - would supplement absolutely and those things are pretty open and humane, but you have to be able to have a vote. And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak - 14;55;11 HAAKE: Is that something that you would consider? 14;55;11 TRUMP: There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that, but you also have to give a vote, and the people are going to say -
Garrett Haake posts an excerpt of a transcript because he “understand[s] the questions at today's news conference were very hard to hear": +++ON BANNING MIFEPRISTONE +++ 14;54;47 HAAKE: There are other things the federal government can do, not just a ban. Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? That's one of the things that's been discussed. 14:54:54 TRUMP: You could do things that will be - would supplement absolutely and those things are pretty open and humane, but you have to be able to have a vote. And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak - 14;55;11 HAAKE: Is that something that you would consider? 14;55;11 TRUMP: There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that, but you also have to give a vote, and the people are going to say -
Garrett Haake posts an excerpt of a transcript because he “understand[s] the questions at today's news conference were very hard to hear": +++ON BANNING MIFEPRISTONE +++ 14;54;47 HAAKE: There are other things the federal government can do, not just a ban. Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? That's one of the things that's been discussed. 14:54:54 TRUMP: You could do things that will be - would supplement absolutely and those things are pretty open and humane, but you have to be able to have a vote. And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak - 14;55;11 HAAKE: Is that something that you would consider? 14;55;11 TRUMP: There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that, but you also have to give a vote, and the people are going to say -
Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
…In simplified form, the process involves 2 basic parties. One is a private company that wants to go public. The other is a #ShellCompany that is already trading on the #StockMarket but has no operations — just a pile of cash that it can use to acquire a business. #SPAC shells are often called “#BlankCheck” companies because their investors have given them a certain amount of money but have no idea yet who the check will be made out to.

#criminal#Trump #law#FEC#SEC
#VoteBlue#Harris2024

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
That’s one of the most obvious guidelines set by the government. SPACs can’t approach a target until after they’ve raised their capital.

Very little about #Trump Media signaled to investors that Truth Social would be a well-run business, & that included its new CEO. The board selected #DevinNunes, a right-wing California congressman who resigned his seat to take the job in December 2021. Nunes had never led a #technology or #media company.

#criminal #law#FEC#SEC
#VoteBlue#Harris2024

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 months ago
David Kurtz looks at the "helpless shrug" Washington Post gave to Trump's ominous statements in Florida and concludes,

"When a former president who tried to stay in office via an auto-coup is now the frontrunner to return to that office and is assuring his most diehard supporters that they only have to make the effort to vote one last time, you should take that as the clarion call it is. No excuses."

#Trump #dictator #media#WashingtonPost
/21

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-promises-2024-is-the-last-time

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Zhi Zhu 🕸️  ·  4 months ago
"When Wallnau calls #Harris a Jezebel, then, viewers should understand that he is nodding toward his own #dreams and #prophecies, his claims to have foretold her coming. Such claims are the currency of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, a #Christian #religious and #political movement “driven by theocratic notions of total societal dominion, including the end of #democracy as we’ve known it”"
https://newrepublic.com/article/184213/jezebel-attacks-kamala-harris-christian

#Religion#Politics#GOP #fascism#USA #News

Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Zhi Zhu 🕸️  ·  4 months ago
See also this Mastodon #thread:

https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/112849263505540941

which looks at how certain #news orgs are already blaming #KamalaHarris for the "DEI culture war" (code for racist/sexist/bigoted ) attacks that #Trump and the #GOP are throwing at her.

#Journalism#Press#Media#Politics#US#USPol#USPolitics#USA#Harris#Harris2024

Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on #Harris as #racism, pure & simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton... termed them “racial attacks” & situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity & affirmative action programs.” The #headline on that story was another passive #horror, putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with #DEI, culture war attacks”. - @froomkin Image: Text from article: The Washington Post, meanwhile, is blaming the culture wars. Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on Harris as racism, pure and simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton on Monday termed them “racial attacks” and situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity and affirmative action programs.” For Felton, the story is not that the right wing is responding to Harris with grotesque racism, it’s that “America’s fraught racial politics are set to, once again, take center stage.” The headline on that story was another passive horror, almost putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with DEI, culture war attacks”. #Journalism #Politics #Media
Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on #Harris as #racism, pure & simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton... termed them “racial attacks” & situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity & affirmative action programs.” The #headline on that story was another passive #horror, putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with #DEI, culture war attacks”. - @froomkin Image: Text from article: The Washington Post, meanwhile, is blaming the culture wars. Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on Harris as racism, pure and simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton on Monday termed them “racial attacks” and situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity and affirmative action programs.” For Felton, the story is not that the right wing is responding to Harris with grotesque racism, it’s that “America’s fraught racial politics are set to, once again, take center stage.” The headline on that story was another passive horror, almost putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with DEI, culture war attacks”. #Journalism #Politics #Media
Screen shot of a Mastodon post with the text: "Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on #Harris as #racism, pure & simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton... termed them “racial attacks” & situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity & affirmative action programs.” The #headline on that story was another passive #horror, putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with #DEI, culture war attacks”. - @froomkin Image: Text from article: The Washington Post, meanwhile, is blaming the culture wars. Rather than calling out right-wing attacks on Harris as racism, pure and simple, reporter Emmanuel Felton on Monday termed them “racial attacks” and situated them as part of “the broader culture war over corporate diversity and affirmative action programs.” For Felton, the story is not that the right wing is responding to Harris with grotesque racism, it’s that “America’s fraught racial politics are set to, once again, take center stage.” The headline on that story was another passive horror, almost putting the onus on Harris rather than on the perpetrators: “Harris’s campaign will have to contend with DEI, culture war attacks”. #Journalism #Politics #Media
Flipboard
Flipboard  ·  6 months ago
In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.

"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/federation-timeline/

#Federation#Fediverse#Flipboard#FediCurious#ActivityPub#Publishing#Media#Technology#MastodonMigration#Mastodon