Notice that news orgs are leaving out how Axios got the audio. Their reporting just says "they obtained" when they know Trump's DOJ released the audio & it's not anything revealing in any way.
The reporting on trump *is* still far worse.
His brain is obviously pudding and they’re all 🤷♂️ doing stenography for him and reporting as if his EOs are legislation regardless of the legality of them.
What's the difference between Biden and Trump? One is too dumb or incompetent to remember or understand their oath of office and the other is Biden. The media's coverage of Biden was based on Trump's bootlicker narrative and chants of Sleepy Joe.
Don't worry many years from now (probably from another country) journalists and pundits will take themselves to task with lucrative book deals outlining how they missed all the signs of authoritarianism in 2025-2026
Journalists are begging us for donations because social media is drowning them out and they can’t survive. Younger generations watch and hang out with streamers and don’t watch the news or regular tv much anymore.
They sane wash the likes of Trump & Farage whilst laying in to people like Biden, Starmer and todays latest victim, Carney. It's done for clicks & giggles, but in the case of Trump it has really gone too far. Is there any serious reflection across the press & media about how they are complicit? No.
The GOP has for a long time been clever enough to run stunt candidates who generate publicity by being weird and draw attention by any means necessary. Nobody understands that it's the sign of functioning politics to be boring.
It’s entirely the media’s fault the far right is taking hold too. Same washing Farage. Using Reform nonsense as clickbait for the outrage. Bad publicity is good publicity their names are on your mouth. Stop platforming extremists. It’s not balance.
Yes the media coverage of Biden was flawed when he was in office, his white call for a news conference and they would show a trump rally three before an election. Look at yourself before looking at others.
1/ There are signs the reckoning has begun. Witness the NYT's whining this past week about the cost of newsletters, which I and many others read as a "freak-out" that people wanting real news with real info pay real money to subscribe to them, at the same time that they have ditched NYT, WAPO, etc.
2/ Independent journalists are where it's at: Marisa Kabas' The Handbasket is one. HCR is solid, The Guardian is decent. At the same time,we are eschewing MSM TV and online media in droves, instead following Meidas Touch & Find Out podcasts, Alt Nat Park Service, CBS' 60 Minutes, some PBS & NPR.
To end this cancer, not only in America but on the Globe, stand up and resist his racist ideology, political anger, and overt corruption.
It is antithetical to the good of humanity.
The media sees politics as showbiz. They want a story and if a politician acts up for them, they will cover it. Because stupidity is a "story". The net result is more coverage for right-wing imbeciles. The media doesn't care if this results in existential crisis. They just want to sell units.
All of this looking back to Biden is an attempt to deflect from the Orange Bone Spurs Felon47 failed Presidency. At least Biden is not Bankrupt in Character/Morally Deplorable and did not set out to destroy our Constitution and Democratic way of life.
So out of touch, that he is in love with the word groceries, never having heard of the word before. Also doesn’t realize that you shouldn’t be proud of being a bully, since It’s very well documented. All old fashioned ideas to him apparently. He will go down in history as a mean bankrupt buffoon.
Biden is no longer the president. Getting old and frail is not a conspiracy. Trump is the oldest president in US history and is increasingly unable to articulate a simple sentence.
He was always dumb and inattentive to facts, but I didn’t see him short out on stage and weirdly sway to music for more than half an hour at rallies in 2016.
Either way, the beltway media should be clearer about his incoherence
It’d be one thing to treat him like a child, but who would want a child to hold the powers of the US presidency? Couldn’t that at least have been a baseline narrative?
I agree. My point is that we simply excuse is aberrant behavior in the way you do a child who just doesn’t know any better. We accept his silly lies & ignorance as you would a child who clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Maybe he was just joking…
There was plenty of moments like that during the primaries. The media hid it from you the same way they made his credible sexual assault accuser disappear from headlines.
Joe was elevated by the establishment bc he was manipulateable.
I think the biggest reason we stuck with Joe Biden was he was the incumbent. There's no denying that's the biggest advantage to any candidate. If Joe had had a good debate, instead of being literally sick & tired, no Dem would have blinked.
If Biden had been forced to step down after the mid-terms, Harris would have had the advantage of being the incumbent.
That might have made a huge difference to voter turnout.
This is still a dishonest take. Joe didn’t decline in the Whitehouse. His failing mental acuity was clearly visible during the primaries. He was never fit. He was chosen by Washington elites because he was already in decline and it made him and his presidency more malleable and easier to control.
The media could stop covering Biden's age and foibles as he is now a private citizen & will never run again. Maybe focus on Trump's lack of sleep, crazy rants, trouble word finding, falling asleep, & telling multiple reporters he doesn't know what's going on. Since he's talking 2028. But no.
Margaret the two access reporters even admitted their book is built on supposed anonymous sources & those mentioned in stories have said they are lies. Biden still rides his bike & speeches thru Jan 2021 showed he was fine though a bit slower. The press wanted Trump back plain & simple.
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His brain is obviously pudding and they’re all 🤷♂️ doing stenography for him and reporting as if his EOs are legislation regardless of the legality of them.
They helped enable his ascension to the presidency twice by normalizing him and his supporters’ destructive ideologies.
This is not a game.
here’s a couple threads on how bad the US media has become
if you’re a rich bigoted lunatic white felon rapist-man
they’ll do the fellatio thing all campaign long
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@markjacob.bsky.social
@newsjennifer.bsky.social
@jayrosen.bsky.social
1st mini-thread
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https://bsky.app/profile/themistocleswall.bsky.social/post/3lf3p4lwwa22e
to cover their & their colleagues at @cnn.com & @axios.com ‘s
lies that helped put a rich bigoted white felon rapist-man in WH then👇🏼
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https://bsky.app/profile/themistocleswall.bsky.social/post/3lgb34t3ozk2h
# @emptywheel.bsky.social
3/fin
https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3lp2ha2vz6s2t
It it yells, it sells.
If it’s sane, it’s mundane.
It is antithetical to the good of humanity.
Georgia is forcing a dead Black woman to be an incubator to a fetus. There is no record of consent from her family.
If I were a woman in Georgia, I'd leave the state.
https://bsky.app/profile/arghavansallesmd.medsky.social/post/3lpa6extrok2q
Either way, the beltway media should be clearer about his incoherence
We’re used to treating him like a child…
Joe was elevated by the establishment bc he was manipulateable.
That might have made a huge difference to voter turnout.
And this isn’t new. Bush’s presidency was the same. Cheney ran it.
That’s the real story.