The state of UK journalism today is absurd articles sourced almost exclusively from press releases by a thousand right-wing pressure groups formed maybe a few months ago with Koch dollars crammed into a single office space at 55/57 Tufton Street
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i would simply not read a newspaper in 2025, it is now more efficient and accurate to assemble an understanding of a situation out of "primary" sources on social media, and that is frightening really.
The one exception to Koch-funded right-wing pressure groups producing barely cogent white paper slop are articles sourced almost exclusively from right-wing anti-trans pressure groups, some of whom are also based at Tufton Street, but mostly just some crank’s garage, and funded by Rowling
The Koch regime started the takeover of higher ed more than a decade ago. FSU, George Mason, Clemson, and too many others took dirty money to do their bidding.
The ones in education make me really sad at the moment. Huge amounts of money in “screen free” bs that won’t help anyone but the right wing. We seem to have opened the floodgates and I need the weekend to regroup after what happened this week.
These pressure groups at the Tufton Street office space requires one of two things: (1) the Tufton Street offices occupy a hyperspace dimension; (2) they’re all Potemkin village fronts employing the exact same dozen people and a few kids fresh out of uni to churn out white papers
And as my own superficial checking uncovered (and what ended up covered by real, credible journalists), it’s the latter, because an office space doesn’t break physics: they simply rebrand older pressure groups, even reusing and renaming their Facebook groups, legal incorporations, and people
Well, you see, keeping quiet about this guarantees dozens of story opportunities fed directly to their inbox every month, and exposing them only gets them one story, one time.
Found the old thread. I am not a journalist, I don’t have sources, I’m not knocking on doors; I’ve worked as a researcher, and that involves searching names in search engines and checking archived versions of websites, and all this information isn’t hidden! https://bsky.app/profile/nateo.bsky.social/post/3kgbtyaub362y
The way to fix all this isn't to try fencing with them about sourcing their claims.
It's to develop a rival bullshit machine and a rival online and TV dissemination machine and drown out their bullshit with our bullshit.
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It's to develop a rival bullshit machine and a rival online and TV dissemination machine and drown out their bullshit with our bullshit.