William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"As the election approaches, the reporting gets worse — policy issues are pushed aside, the most ludicrous micro-controversies are given front-page treatment, more and more attention is paid to increasingly useless polls and pointless speculation, and they ride into election day on a wave of triviality. ...

The most disheartening thing about all this is how it shows our elite media have learned nothing."

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/10

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."

~ Seth Abramson

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/11

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/fact-check-no-president-biden-didnt

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/12

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'

That really did happen.

And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?

If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/13

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
Lincoln Project helpfully provides us with a beaucoup of times when the Garbage Can Man Trump has called Kamala Harris' supporters — and America itself — garbage.

I'm continuing to hashtag New York Times and Washington Post as I post this item because both media outlets should be royally shamed, though they're evidently well beyond shame.

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvr7KfJPgA

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"Donald recently called America 'the garbage can of the world,' and this is what he had to say about actual human beings back in September:

'The people that surround [Kamala Harris]—they’re Scum. They’re scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.'

Good to know.

We’re five days out. The media keeps getting it wrong."

~ Mary Trump

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/15

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-garbage-can-of-the-world

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"Of all the expectations I had for these final weeks of the election, canceling two of my newspaper subscriptions wasn’t one of them.

I’ve always believed newspapers are essential to our democracy."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#LosAngelesTimes#PatrickSoonShiong#EconomicElites
/6

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/canceled-subscriptions

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"But here we see billionaires, who own press operations as side businesses, out of their back pocket, as it were, seeming to decide that it’s easier to pull up stakes in advance, get out of the way of the freight train, lay down before Trump has even won the election."

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/5

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"It’s been suggested to me that Jeff Bezos’ decision here may be based on more than just fear. Perhaps carrots are operating in the background as well as sticks. I don’t know if that’s true. But I mention the possibility because I think it’s a critical driver of what I’ve called that climate of bewilderment. The choice has the whiff of decisions or deals made off stage, out of public view."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/3

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trust-bewilderment-and-billionairedom-understanding-the-backlash-against-bezos

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"A lot of the country is convinced that a second Trump presidency will push America into the kind of elective autocracy we see in degraded democracies like Russia, Turkey and India. That brings with it the standard package of curtailments of press and other civic freedoms."

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/4

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"It’s been suggested to me that Jeff Bezos’ decision here may be based on more than just fear. Perhaps carrots are operating in the background as well as sticks. I don’t know if that’s true. But I mention the possibility because I think it’s a critical driver of what I’ve called that climate of bewilderment. The choice has the whiff of decisions or deals made off stage, out of public view."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/3

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trust-bewilderment-and-billionairedom-understanding-the-backlash-against-bezos

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."

~ Lily Mae Lazarus

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites#RobertKagan
/1

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-washington-post-editor-robert-kagan-this-is-a-straight-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo/

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
“'Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,' he said on Saturday. 'Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.'”

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites#RobertKagan
/2

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 weeks ago
"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."

~ Lily Mae Lazarus

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites#RobertKagan
/1

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-washington-post-editor-robert-kagan-this-is-a-straight-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo/

Jon
Jon  ·  last month
The humor columnist has more backbone than Bezos.

Gift link: https://wapo.st/3UqHWRM

#washingtonpost #uspol #bezos

Opinion by Alexandra Petri The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I'm told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
Opinion by Alexandra Petri The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I'm told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
Opinion by Alexandra Petri The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I'm told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
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