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marcelias.bsky.social • 191 days ago

My latest: "Donald Trump tamed the media. Some even paid for the privilege."

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gc613.bsky.social•191 days ago

Great work!

dreded1.bsky.social•191 days ago

MSM has sacrificed the responsibility to objectively report on occurrences and trends in our society. The reporters are there, the technology to provide the findings is there, and Americans hunger for information. What has changed is the willingness of ownership to report. Seek independent sources.

daveingeorgia.bsky.social•191 days ago

Unfortunately, with the 24 hr news channels, suits decided panel discussions were cheaper and let a lot of good journalists go.

metta4us.bsky.social•191 days ago

I wonder if “tamed” is the right word. It feels like 2024 was a huge unmasking of legacy media. The owners interest do not align with the journalists and the people who follow them. The billionaires stopped pretending and put their thumb on the scale to promote their views at the country’s expense

dannyshay.bsky.social•191 days ago

Say it brother :-)

chuckishere.bsky.social•191 days ago

The latest outrage by Trump..check my page for the Army Navy Scandal.

mbski15.bsky.social•191 days ago

Marc, “no sign of cartilage in R senate and house“ 🤣. Sadly true!!😩

kanadianraven.bsky.social•191 days ago

Clearly sounds like a threat AND a promise to me.

daddyng.bsky.social•191 days ago

It’s all about buying access. What a corrupt society this nation has become.

trinebp.bsky.social•191 days ago

Watch the movie Judgement at Nuremberg. The germans embraced the slow coup in 1933 at every level of the society until they completely became numb to the loss of rule of law to allow the most atrocious actions to occur. Civilians not caring because they believed Hitler could solve their problems.

brianwinch.bsky.social•191 days ago

Trump has made it clear you kiss the ring and glorify him our you go to jail

stevegingto.bsky.social•191 days ago

TESTING

nancapetown.bsky.social•191 days ago

And I wonder how much of the news is distraction in order to cover up what is actually going on.

liberalazbirder.bsky.social•191 days ago

Done!
Thank you for being such an inspiring fighter. 🥰
FYI, I’d never boink a male billionaire.

sterlingwright.bsky.social•191 days ago

Perhaps this Great Wake Up was needed.
NOBODY is on anyone’s side but their own. Even most “normal people” are unwilling to sacrifice anything economically in order to deny the Mobster an economy. Why would one expect the capitulators to? They are opportunists; now you know. If we want a different

sterlingwright.bsky.social•191 days ago

country, we must build it ourselves. Different sorts of people need to run for office. Stop buying stuff. Stop working for others. Instead, help each other build new industry networks around innovative small business. Don’t pay corporations, and don’t be paid by them. Sacrifice. And, run for office.

sisbo.bsky.social•191 days ago

Media needs to report on all the other heroic, democracy building people, leaders, and organizations in their news programming. Simply do not cover him. Problem solved. We can watch the news free of him and he will not have any reason to sue or intimidate news organizations.

mcnallman916.bsky.social•191 days ago

MSM - an arm of the MAGA movement.

sweetooth1.bsky.social•191 days ago

Trump tamed the media alright - into the cult of the leader & threatening it if doesn't continue to comply! Isn't HE now part of the gov't & isn't that 'prior restraint', 'chilling effect'. Another attack on the 1st Amendment/freedom of the press. His remarks are not banal!
https://youtu.be/Vtpd0EbaFoQ?...

experimental22.bsky.social•191 days ago

That last paragraph could describe how abusive spouses/partners behave.

handle.invalid•190 days ago

Fuck Donald Trump.

He needs to recognize that he cannot and will not move the will of God.

Donald Trump will be moved by the will of God or burn in eternal hellfire.

I will burn in eternal hellfire if I am not moved by the will of God.

So will you. No escape.

northstar123.bsky.social•191 days ago

but can he tame tens of millions of people united ?

dblack62.bsky.social•191 days ago

My wife loves the long sleeve t shirt, “ Republicans are the problem “ .

stoshm.bsky.social•191 days ago

"g-g-g-gosh mr president, sir, we're awful sorry..here's $15million...can we be friends now..?"

jackief50.bsky.social•191 days ago

Thank you for this. You hit the nail on the head.

shadowbox73.bsky.social•191 days ago

So true. When the moment arrived, the media rolled over.

dennispt.bsky.social•191 days ago

Maybe that's why even liberals went for Trump because of the redirection. Stupid fuck!

professor-4960.bsky.social•191 days ago

DONE!

pyramid45.bsky.social•191 days ago

There's a HR about to go to the floor when he gets in challenges to the first amendment, if he deems it as fake news. Yet you know Fox News will never feel the wrath if this if the bill passes. Tell us more about this @Mark.

thedenature.bsky.social•191 days ago

ABC has entered the chat.

myth-2.bsky.social•191 days ago

😡😭🤯

skwalker.bsky.social•191 days ago

Shouldn’t “Fight for Democracy” be free?

ny2vayogi.bsky.social•191 days ago

🤢

xplicitpolitix.bsky.social•191 days ago

Good read! And true!

fyrestrm.bsky.social•191 days ago

Painful 😔

xyloholt.bsky.social•191 days ago

Given who the owners of these outlets are, is it that they are tamed or was this the plan all along?

mimim99.bsky.social•191 days ago

Infuriating

healthcareis1.bsky.social•191 days ago

My son says the media is terrified when I get mad at them. I say too bad they got him elected. Where was their fear then?

mike-warner.bsky.social•191 days ago

How do you feel about The Guardian as part of that short list of exceptions?

6cats4adomino.bsky.social•191 days ago

Legacy media is dead, there is no point, well the weather but then there is the weather channel. Their job is to distract and confuse. They got their 30 pieces of silver for betraying America.

eddingtonlimit.bsky.social•191 days ago

The language of the abuser, look what you made me do

dmb88.bsky.social•191 days ago

The beginning of the end of Free Speech and certain news outlets with the upcoming administration. I see the similarity to Russian news.

ladybugblues.bsky.social•191 days ago

He’s owning the media. Like a communist.

scorpion233.bsky.social•191 days ago

We're allowing him to own the media like a communist.

belnot.bsky.social•191 days ago

Recommendations 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

naturalwanderer.bsky.social•191 days ago

Why is America for sale?

scorpion233.bsky.social•191 days ago

Because we're greedy. Everything is for sale. Healthcare, basic housing, basic food, basic safety. Everyone of those have people in it to get themselves rich, not to have a great society of human beings.

pickleball7188.bsky.social•191 days ago

Thank you Marc Elias

beth-sue.bsky.social•191 days ago

15 million dollar shame burger

madmaudlin.bsky.social•191 days ago

Would if i could afford it.

rwms.bsky.social•191 days ago

I’ve always prided myself in trusting our media (those who in the past shown themselves to be trustworthy & non-partisan) to fold so quickly to the behest (or bullying) of a narcissistic, evil, and remarkably ignorant juvenile. A generation twice removed can see Trump for the harm he will bring.

nickpelling.bsky.social•191 days ago

The media were horrendously one-sided before the election, with Trump allowed everything and the Dems allowed nothing.

You can't tame something that's already demonstrably tame.

gvern.bsky.social•191 days ago

The way all the media treated Biden and Harris and sucked up to Trump it was pretty obvious all the standard media is worthless. Not sure if it was a committee decision but I bet it was.

mannwich.bsky.social•191 days ago

And it will get worse

katlu92.bsky.social•191 days ago

Wow.

mjr01.bsky.social•191 days ago

I literally just said that out loud.

knitwit64.bsky.social•191 days ago

Turned my stomach because I know Americans are better than that.

lkmcp.bsky.social•191 days ago

Can someone explain to me why I can't click links here on Bluesky and actually go to the site? Is there a setting I need to change?

mike200x.bsky.social•190 days ago

ABC = Disney = Fox = Murdoch

deborahsutherland.bsky.social•191 days ago

We need real old fashioned journalists who go where the story leads them despite the outcome.

itsmedonna8.bsky.social•190 days ago

Donald Trump and his Republicans are turning this country inside out, upside-down Unrecognizable

herman7.bsky.social•191 days ago

we got you tho

cupecoy4me.bsky.social•191 days ago

Every single American should be sickened by the fealty of these billionaires whose thirst for money is insatiable. Imagine Kowtowing to Mussolini. We are witnessing this in real time and the MAGA morons act like it’s fine.

Imagine if Obama was doing this…MAGA morons would be salting the earth

bbeach.bsky.social•191 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3ldc37l4ves2c

groku.bsky.social•191 days ago

Capitulation of msm in the age if Trump is a blot on the profession.

rampantrawdoggery.bsky.social•191 days ago

Lewis Powell and his unAmerican views on an American capitalist-style fascism have been leading to this shit inevitably for 50 yrs. Reagan was the first canary. That MFer was incompetent and incurious but a useful tool. Sound familiar at all? He got the racists all excited too.

milanc.bsky.social•191 days ago

Corporate media is complicit.

medru.bsky.social•191 days ago

Some artist needs to paint the Senate as dogs.

medru.bsky.social•191 days ago

Tamed the media. I'm sorry. I feel sometimes I'm latching on to people phrases.

Look at that. The media a free press, I have a black wristband downstairs that says FREE the PRESS. It is fading now.

resnais-suns.bsky.social•191 days ago

It seems like 'the shining house on the hill' is begging for a help?
We - the people do not your approvance, we need weaponry.
Hopefully (you came late) we'll do the job.

langwoodj.bsky.social•191 days ago

The corporate media are no longer our 4th Estate.

algarvesky.bsky.social•191 days ago

I just signed up for Democracy Docket membership. There’s no time to waste. All eyes on the 2026 midterm!

henryhill1.bsky.social•191 days ago

The corrupt media that got us here.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44891839/milwaukee-reporters-trump-team-rare-steakhouse/

kibbitz.bsky.social•191 days ago

But none of it would have been possible without Rupert Murdoch.

jackief50.bsky.social•191 days ago

Rupert Murdoch is an evil man.

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