WTF is going on Rick? Where's the journalistic courage?Don't have to tell this ol' fella what happens when the message/s are suppressed. Are most Americans now not frightened?They will soon be.US democracy is now in the "danger zone". And it's going to get worse. They're just warming up!
Yeah...I'd love to do that but I'm paying for so many subscriptions...I have an Adobe, Word, and Squarespace subscription that I need to cancel before they charge my white hot credit card. My online profile should read "I don't want to buy it. I just want to use it."
Fuck you Raw Story! I'm not turning off my ad blocker for you. Don't post stuff you are going to make impossible to read without contributing or allowing you to push ads we don't want!
LP didn’t settle because grifting the left is their only source of income and that would have made that very difficult if they did.
Now, with the “defense fund”, they have another source of income to continue to pay themselves, their kids and their friends pretty handsomely.
I'll stop following you now. There's no point if I can't read what you post. 🤷🤦♀️ we all know you need money to survive, but there are journalists out there doing it with less, and they don't block the public.
Big media looking for big $$, instead of working together right now to educate the people
You can subscribe to a Daily feed to Reuters for free. It’s not important which reliable source you read for news just that you are not getting your news from Social Media
I read a lot of papers, not social media only. I look for quick links so I can quick read the issue. But when a news source makes you jump through hoops and hurdles to get to the story and asking for money
I actually got this tip from Elon Musk. The only useful thing he has ever uttered on social media.
It's called paywall hub and you can find as an extension for any browser. I have yet to find an article it can't display free.
You are right truth should be free. https://www.removepaywall.com/
senator tommy tuberville, representing a former confederate state that is a social cesspool. A feudal society that treats its citizens like serfs. Not to mention, it is a ward of the federal government sucking up blue state tax dollars.
Maybe the left should start filing nuisance lawsuits against the media too. I mean, when is ABC going to apologize for their inappropriate apology? They are supposed to be reporting the news factually, not just parroting biased propaganda from a wannabe fascist dictator.
Well, earlier this year Fox News paid out $877 million dollars for inventing their 2020 stolen election stories and they have another case coming up. I imagine there was some tit for tat here but all Trump needed was one victory to call all the rest into question.
OK, so no CBS for sane-washing Trump, no ABC, no CNN-FOX lite, no MSNBC - we're running out of News we can watch. PBS? I am down to Colin Jost on SNL, but I don't trust Che because he laughs too much at his own lines. And their interviews are just stupid.
If I was a politician I would start filing lawsuits against everyone that had the slightest business I was involved in. They seemed to have cracked bribery wide open with this.
I can’t see though the paywall, but I bet the answer looks something like, “now that Trump won the election, we don’t want to lose access to him and his administration for the next 4 years. We’d lose too much money if we did.”
The Lincoln Project make good ads but they are GRIFTERS they never can convince more than 6% of their Republicans friends to vote for the Democratic Party. They continue to pull the Democratic Party to Republican Lite n it's not working.
I’ll sum up for you in one sentence. ABC needed access to him the next four years, TLP did not. The case would’ve been thrown out of court It was so frivolous.
"Many members of (Germany’s corporate elites) thought Hitler was going to be the useful idiot who was going to play their games… they wanted to ride the Nazi movement like a horse.."
"They would use the momentum and the political potential of the Nazi party (to advance their corporate interests) but still keep it at bay…Within three or four months, they discovered that they were the horse and that Hitler was the horseman"
Exactly right, the Trump admin will advance regs that unprotect journalists/media-he's already made those threats. 1st step: In between his posts on TS announcing noms for his incoming admin, Trump urged GOP Wed to nix a bipartisan bill that would give journalists greater protections under fed law.
In an exchange for power, DT will require Amer's oligarchs to line his pockets so to speak. Already striving for power of the purse over Congress's right on how approp $ are spent will give him + power over corp/billionaire interests. Control over the Fed Reserve will influence worldwide economics.
And that to me represents one of the biggest issues our democracy has. Money in politics is electing the best politicians money can buy and they do not answer to "We the People". They answer to their corporate masters. #endcitizensunited #enddarkmoney
Unfortunately, as long as their side keeps winning elections I doubt they do. Just like the electoral college, if their side had won the popular vote but lost the election due to the electoral college change would have happened faster than Trump's ear healed.
I had that exact thought earlier today! God knows they do nothing else that makes sense. And Leon’s threats may tick them off enough to jump in that direction.
House Republicans choose white men as chairs: The steering committee selected a lot of white men to lead panels across the Capitol. Of the 16 elected committee chairs, 15 of them are white men. The only exception is Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), whose maternal grandparents immigrated from Mexico.
Can’t subscribe, but I’m assuming it’s along the lines of the press doing what they need to do to survive these 4 years so that they still exist afterwards?
With the assumption that there’s an afterwards where the press in their current form still exists?
Hopefully they don't. Tthe blatant lies they have repeated about Trump over the years. Their complicity in covering up Biden being mentally deficient since nearly the beginning of his presidency.
What is there to like about the current state of establishment media?
Our founders assumed that people like you wouldn’t necessarily exist in the numbers that you currently do. And that critical thinking skills would be prevalent amongst voters.
Well, you can look in the mirror in 6 months once you experience the fallout from the mass deportations of millions of workers and blanket tariffs on our top two trading partners tho, right?
Unless, and this is a hare-brained idea I’m sure, Trump is lying about that.
When I look in the mirror, I will remind myself that for four fuckin years I didn't hear a peep out of people like yourself while Biden wrought 25% inflation, let the border open, got our troops killed with a terrible withdrawal from Afgan, defied the SCOTUS, and the president drooled at meetings.
LOL....another great strategy. Going right down the list.
Let me see if I have it right.
1. First label them facist
2. Next call them racist
3. Insult their intelligence
4. Scratch head trying to understand how we lost.
Everyone likes to talk about how deficient Biden is, but the free press that you consume won’t mention the fact our country is the opposite of what they want you to think. The USA has done well compared to other western nations post-Covid. But the press has that right, under the first amendment.
Because Rick Wilson had nothing to lose and ABC wanted a seat at the MAGA trough? Hate to break it to you, Stephanopoulos, but “Fox and Friends” was way ahead of you. They get to be the state media, not you. Get to the back of the bus and sit down.
The documentary "THE IMPACT" reveals that the Russian terrorist group RACIRS, along with its political supporters, rather than the French FECRIS, orchestrates the harmful anti-cult movement across Europe, including Italy
President Biden must declare an emergency and arrest Trump for the Insurrection on I suggest Jan 6th, 2025 in order to save America and our world from a Devil named Trump.
A more cynical view is that it’s a trap — albeit one worth fighting. ABC would have won under Times v Sullivan — but, would this SCOTUS overturn it? If so, even a win for ABC would gut press freedom. Yet, by capitulating, ABC lets MAGA weaponize lawsuits to silence dissent — hence, the trap.
True true, and may i note that i got a warning on Threads when i tried to post something similar that it was hate speech and i could get banned. I guess the meta AI redlights the words lick, fascist, boot and neck together.
#abcnews has also been removed from my media list. I’ve resorted to watching UK television because the government or advertisers do not influence their media outlets and channels and are still responsible broadcasters.
Out of curiosity, under the assumption that you know there are professional journalists that work there, what would be your solution for PAYING those people?
I would have loved to read this article but I'm one of less than a millionaire who finds 8.00 too expensive.
My first job was delivering newspapers and it was .50 a week of which I made .15 per week and that was on actual paper that required a workforce to produce and deliver. This is servers and
pixels that doesn't require a physical building to produce. You can do this on a laptop in your bathroom.
I get making a profit but dude, make a penny on each thing you sell but sell a million.
If your shit is twice as good as your competitor you can sell it for half as much to more people.
Because money laundering, that's why. $1 million went to the inauguration fund. Bezos also kicked in $1 million to that fund. Last time, the inauguration fund got embezzled. Connect the dots.
I mean... luring Trump into a humiliating and quixotic court battle has been Lincoln Project's goal from the get go... obviously they're not going to back down lmao
It's the billionaires that own the media companies doing this. Why settle for telling the truth? Because the Tangerine Twatneck will turn on the owners if he loses. This sets the precedent for his petulant wrath. Buckle up buttercups! This is going to be 4 very long years. This is AmeriKKKa.
If you’re going to post stories on here behind a paywall, I’m going to just block you. It won’t make me want to subscribe. If we can’t see if your product is worthy of 3 mins, it’s probably not worth more.
They’re individuals on Substack. Only organizations I’ve paid are Meidas and The Lincoln Project. Both well worth any cost. They do a lot of research and fact finding.
Access. If they won the case, or even pursued the case, they’d lose access to the White House and administration officials. This has happened before, and it cripples a conventional news organization.
The Lincoln Project and Meidas don’t rely on this, so it’s something they can’t be threatened with.
The problem is that this has now caused a problem for not just now but the future of this nation. In the grand scheme of that, Disney and its companies are unimportant. Now they are taking heat from every direction and deserve every bit of it.
If any of you seek help in the states over this here's a link that may help https://www.nsvrc.org/find-help also look up the 1973 Child protection act. It's nothing new. Lots of examples that rapes just being used as a buzzword. Sensitising the public's part of the MK Ultras agenda and so it's agendized
Some of us can’t afford to read these paywall stories. Disabled ad blocker, but it STILL wants a subscription that I can’t afford. There has to be another way to disseminate vital information. I’ll bet the right-wing alternatives are free…just saying.
Super broad strokes:
> ABC settled a lawsuit they would have easily won to curry favor
> Lincoln project fought and won a different, less-likely-to-win lawsuit.
> The rest of MSM has done similar shows of fealty because , the piece argues, 'they underestimate him'
It isn't because their ads are about as obnoxious as you can get, like those click bait articles that are 90% non closeable pop ups that make it near impossible NOT to accidentally click on them by design... that. People who try to force me down potentially computer f'ing paths can f off.
Much appreciated. Didn’t even know that existed. Should come in handy as sometimes these ad block resistant sites are never satisfied and I hate going in and having to find out which extension they’re objecting to.
If, one day, the US finds itself with hitherto independent and free media suddenly genuflecting in almost every way to the "king" and other powers in place, it should be remembered that the Walt Disney Company started it.
I'll say it again. Regardless of what the suits at ABC have done or not done, that doesn't mean old George has to fall in line like a punk. He could stand up and be a journalist and take it to court. And he'd WIN! Fight for the 1st A!
Even with Trump gone from the White House, his judges bent or flat-out broke written law and precedent in his favor, multiple times. In Eileen Cannon’s court in Florida or in Texas or in the U.S. Supreme Court, the actual law didn’t matter if Trump wanted something else.
I guess we'll never find out, now will we? Nobody has the guts to take on power. I'd do it in a heartbeat, repercussions be damned! I don't think there's a jury who'd side against me!
so start a focus - ie even national petitions, in conjunction with dems/senators, etc. We would have something streamline that would augment our similar opinions...
Raw Story: can you please find ABC’s printed retraction / apology, and raise the spotlight that E. Jean Carroll can and should now sue ABC News for defamation? Any statement that she wasn’t raped has been ruled untrue by the courts.
Why would i pay a huge amount for a subscription when i haven't even read one sentence of any articles involved? This is why people can't access news or truth.
So the 15 Mil is going to trump presidential foundation?
So he will be able to use it at will.
I am not sure if settlements are taxed.
He avoids them anyways.
To date, there is a website for the museum. That's it.
Was this some mutual back handed deal?
ABC wanted to have reporters in the Press Corps in the White House that would be called on. I think it's that simple. That jackass Trump is petty enough to spend 4 years refusing to call on ABC reporters.
Article summary... ABC settled a defamation case with Trump despite strong legal protections, prioritizing Disney's corporate interests over press freedom. In contrast, the Lincoln Project fought and won against Mike Flynn, reaffirming the First Amendment's role in protecting robust public debate.
The germain point here is that it doesn't matter what form of rape Trump committed (he's already boasted of sexually assaulting women), his bigoted, misogynist, and immoral voters would have elected him anyways.
Who’s watching? Literally everyone I know has stopped watching the news. These were people who followed the news and watched daily. I have no idea what any of these outlets are thinking.
Here's the thing, the people that NEED to see the info won't see it. Preaching to subscribers is preaching to the choir. Figure out a way to deliver real info to the cult in a way that will get noticed and, with time, sink in.
I don’t begrudge them trying to pay the bills, but there’s a mismatch between the way newspapers et. al. go about collecting money and the way newcomers to their stories want to spend it. They always want a subscription, and if I want an article, I just want that article, at least for now. 1/3
If there were a way to say “Eh sure, charge me 50¢ right here, right now, using Apple Pay (or similar) and give me access to the site for the day”, I’d take that option in a heartbeat. It’s the news stand model, and it’s a far better match to the way the modern reader consumes news. 2/3
Or they could do what https://Esquire.com does: give you a certain number of free article, then go "no more unless you subscribe.' It's like drug dealers: first one's free...
We want to gather from multiple sources. We want to compare and contrast. What we don’t want is to have to wade through setting up a subscription, dealing with cancelling it later, and dealing with the inevitable long tail of spam and resub begging that we all know will come with it. 3/3
I'm not against subscriptions either, but posting a single article for public consumption and keeping it behind a paywall is likely NOT going to entice new subs... it's just a dick move...
Very true. If an article on social media is an advertisement, the experience it gives is frustration. The potential readers get bait’n’switched, and that’s their first impression of the brand.
You can subscribe to free feed from Reuters. It’s a daily service. You can subscribe to Apple News which allows you to view more legacy media for stories they publish. If you want highly factual news you need to stop with social media.
When I, as a former cop, say ACAB, it’s because I know of which I speak. If you are still able to put on the uniform and look yourself in the eye in 2024, you ARE a bastard.
Case in point:
Exactly. I like Raw Story's work, but prefer not to be bombarded with pop-ups to subscribe/$1.00, etc.
Gift one (1) article weekly or monthly to encourage...
Thank you for posting this! I believe part of the problem in America has to do with good journalism being behind paywalls. That's why magats believe nothing but lies. I know everybody has to make a living but there must be a better way to get to the truth.
Especially since it's usually a couple paragraphs. Like it's almost always somebody else's story with a little "resistance" blurb tossed in. This kinda shit is why we lost.
Rape is a criminal finding. My prediction is that the retractions will start right after the first place to 'resist' goes to court and loses a LOT of money.
I take your point. It will be interesting to hear how one can defame a known sex pest creep that was found liable for a sexual assault that included digital penetration, an despicable offense, considered by the presiding judge to be an act of rape ..and who says as much to the press.
and I understand that. I think the difference will be the burden of proof from 'liable' to 'guilty' and that no criminal charges were sought. We'll see.
If a substantive distinction can be offered on the semantics, his rep as a man who forcefully overpwred a woman & penetrated her against her will is such that he has no honorable reputation to be materially damaged. Q.E.D.?
See Judge comments on "distinction".
When I was in high school I was told that rape was just a man ripping a woman’s clothes off her. When I got to college that definition radically changed to: violating a woman by force by penetrating her vaginally or rectally with a penis or other object AND forcing a woman to perform oral sex.
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Lincoln Project has the spine to stand up to Trump. And win.
Now, with the “defense fund”, they have another source of income to continue to pay themselves, their kids and their friends pretty handsomely.
Big media looking for big $$, instead of working together right now to educate the people
It's called paywall hub and you can find as an extension for any browser. I have yet to find an article it can't display free.
You are right truth should be free.
https://www.removepaywall.com/
https://youtu.be/f-ZvEyRhjd4
Or if you want an 24x7 television news channel, then go with international channels, which are available in English:
BBC World News
Al Jazeera English
France 24
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Things can get a whole lot worse.
They want your children straight, white, armed and angry.
MAGA must Lie, Cheat and Steal! Abortion. Guns. Equality. End Christian nationalism!Maga is the CONFEDERACY!! https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand
Disney stole $230,000,00.00+ in wages, yet not one felony charge brought against them.
Disney/ABC is 4th rate garbage.
"Many members of (Germany’s corporate elites) thought Hitler was going to be the useful idiot who was going to play their games… they wanted to ride the Nazi movement like a horse.."
And then, things could become really ugly for the US.
Look how narrowly the Teapublicans won the House.
Let me know when Rick grabs some balls and puts a big fat D right next to his name.
Until then, he, the "independents," and these "traditional Republicans" are absolutely fkng destroying this country and don't even know it.
Independents: the "SIT out the vote party."
Fkng assholes.
With the assumption that there’s an afterwards where the press in their current form still exists?
What is there to like about the current state of establishment media?
Do Not Engage.
Unless, and this is a hare-brained idea I’m sure, Trump is lying about that.
Let me see if I have it right.
1. First label them facist
2. Next call them racist
3. Insult their intelligence
4. Scratch head trying to understand how we lost.
12ft.io
Fk abc. Fk em all!
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley are bending the knee. That's all you need from this pay walled article.
If you’re in news it’s a matter of when someone tests your resolve not if.
Coz I do.
https://archive.ph/FyDTC
h/t to another commenter on this thread.
My first job was delivering newspapers and it was .50 a week of which I made .15 per week and that was on actual paper that required a workforce to produce and deliver. This is servers and
I get making a profit but dude, make a penny on each thing you sell but sell a million.
If your shit is twice as good as your competitor you can sell it for half as much to more people.
VS
NO BALLS
SIMPLE
But at $50-$70 each per year?
Elon Musk pledges $10 Million for murderers defense. Musk’s says he would’ve given more but the driver failed to hit any children.
Side note: China is pleased with Musk’s work tanking original Congressional Bill.
The Lincoln Project and Meidas don’t rely on this, so it’s something they can’t be threatened with.
Access seems to mostly rely on spewing the words trump/elon say but don't ask any follow up questions.
Would people rather have an access-free ABC, than knowing what that access is worth (not just in money but in viewers)?
> ABC settled a lawsuit they would have easily won to curry favor
> Lincoln project fought and won a different, less-likely-to-win lawsuit.
> The rest of MSM has done similar shows of fealty because , the piece argues, 'they underestimate him'
The End.
The story is available elsewhere sans paywall.
It sounds like something you'd read in a job listing.
Even with Trump gone from the White House, his judges bent or flat-out broke written law and precedent in his favor, multiple times. In Eileen Cannon’s court in Florida or in Texas or in the U.S. Supreme Court, the actual law didn’t matter if Trump wanted something else.
So he will be able to use it at will.
I am not sure if settlements are taxed.
He avoids them anyways.
To date, there is a website for the museum. That's it.
Was this some mutual back handed deal?
Hate links to paywalls.
Don't bother posting if there is a paywall.
https://archive.is
(Actually drug dealers do NOT work like that)
Case in point:
https://youtu.be/x0NA8uZzy50?...
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we're talking about ethics.
See Judge comments on "distinction".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
ABC Endorses Donald Trump for President
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