Pathetic. Media subservience to Trump since his election has been widespread. - ThreadSky

juddlegum.bsky.social • 76 days ago

Pathetic. Media subservience to Trump since his election has been widespread.

JUST IN: A day after Trump and George Stephanopoulos were ordered to appear for depositions, they settled the case.

ABC has agreed to make a $15 million contribution to Trump presidential museum/foundation and air an apology for mischaracterizing the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

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owenwithee.bsky.social•76 days ago

I think Trump‘s only brilliance is knowing how weak are institutions are.

timxyc.bsky.social•76 days ago

Oooh their apology announcement will be interesting to read and parse. Will they state contrary the judges ruling that rape is a fitting term?

melfirth.bsky.social•76 days ago

Anyone else feel like they’re watching a shake down in real time? Media & all the tech bros handing over money like their lives depend on it…

raywoodson5.bsky.social•76 days ago

Such good Germans.

jac028.bsky.social•76 days ago

When will independent journalists acknowledge all media is now pro-Trump state media. Because it absolutely is.

zwash300.bsky.social•76 days ago

I’d say the actual independent journalists already are.

215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social•76 days ago

They did not even sit down for their damn depositions!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Capitulation!

Boycott ABC for being obsequious!

sondeerrf.bsky.social•76 days ago

It’s been disheartening too. The fourth state could have been a last pillar of defense against a decline into oligarchy with MAGA controlling all 3 branches of gov. And had they decided to be adversarial they would have profited too.
America will die as it was born with unchecked capitalism

moldyteeth.bsky.social•76 days ago

Maintaining access to a pathological liar is expensive. And pointless.

sharitaylor2020.bsky.social•76 days ago

To be fair, it started long before the election.

andreajoh.bsky.social•76 days ago

Unfuckingbelieveable.

itus.bsky.social•76 days ago

36 days *before* he’s even inaugurated. The legacy media will evaporate in the next 4 years. The era of State Media is upon us.

daddybearinca.bsky.social•76 days ago

WTF!

sageboomer.bsky.social•76 days ago

In July 2023, Judge Kaplan said that the jury had found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word which did not require the alleged penile penetration.[d][e] #TrumpRapedEjeanCarroll

samcrut.bsky.social•76 days ago

It's not a political contribution from the media bosses if the judge orders them to pay it. Money laundering is big business these days.

1truthwhisperer.bsky.social•76 days ago

Will Trump's 'museum' be full of coloring books and crayons and fake gold toilets?

erickbt.bsky.social•76 days ago

Hey Trump reveals the truth more times than we give him credit for

“The media likes me now”
~ Trump

cbhutch.bsky.social•76 days ago

Did ABC settle or their insurers? It was likely out of their hands. Nothing to do with kowtowing to Trump.

finished99.bsky.social•76 days ago

It's not about the money. If these guys can't stand behind their truthful reporting, what good is any of their reporting?

petea.bsky.social•76 days ago

ABC, Zuckerberg, Bezos, OpenAI are protecting their interests by bowing and donating directly to the dictator this week. As media companies and owners, they control the message and are clearly fine with the messenger. Their self interests don’t align with ours. “They not like us”.

irish-norgie.bsky.social•76 days ago

House of Mouse is now House of Louse.

beardiefett.bsky.social•76 days ago

It's always been the House of Louse.

tsonic45.bsky.social•76 days ago

The networks are worried their dirty little secrets will be exposed in court.

blueberryfluffins.bsky.social•76 days ago

Gross.

ayounker.bsky.social•76 days ago

The Empire Strikes Back.

scoundrel2.bsky.social•76 days ago

disgusting

belmarhoney.bsky.social•76 days ago

ABC and all legacy media can eat shit

susan-ny.bsky.social•76 days ago

Ugh. This is just so sickening.

msbhavin.bsky.social•76 days ago

I think they’re more subservient to the shadow president, who can destroy them. ABC is worth $12B. Musk is worth $494B. He can make them go away if they don’t fall in line.

zwash300.bsky.social•76 days ago

Is it just me, or has the entire mainstream media capitulated in the last month? It’s time to ditch them altogether.

tripps78.bsky.social•76 days ago

All of it has surrendered.

jackmcschmock.bsky.social•76 days ago

What about MSNBC? 🤔

beardiefett.bsky.social•76 days ago

Morning Joe has bent the knee.

qb1960.bsky.social•76 days ago

Cowardly, did anyone really believe the news outlets/media would stand up to DJT?

ur-tired-ur-poor.bsky.social•76 days ago

MSM is obeying in advance bending over for Trump and the fascist GOP. First things authoritarians do when taking over a democracy is capture the courts and media.

Is watching/allowing the fascists/authoritarians to destroy democracy in plain sight part of democracy?

lucky5556.bsky.social•76 days ago

Omg….. pathetic

toomuch25.bsky.social•75 days ago

They are falling in line & we're F

freethinker65.bsky.social•76 days ago

That is the monetary contribution. The in kind contribution will be priceless. ABC News will become more like FoxNews. Expect no challenge or pushback to anything Trump says or does.
It will be reported as Trump says: "xyz"
There will be no discussion allowed whether "xyz" is true.

acasualobserver.bsky.social•76 days ago

ABC bends the waist for Trump. Sad.

jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social•76 days ago

sju08.bsky.social•76 days ago

No longer watching cable news networks. No longer watching ABC News, CBS News and NBC News evening and Sunday news shows. No longer reading the Washington Post, NYT and LA Times. The U.S. news media failed our democracy in 2024. They surrendered to Donald Trump.

ricktulsky.bsky.social•76 days ago

Please don't forget ABC has a history of caving. https://www.newsweek.com/cave-tobacco-road-182728

breecegary.bsky.social•76 days ago

Museum foundation wtf is that. I’m pretty sure every cent will go into his pocket

highestbitter.bsky.social•76 days ago

https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-owner-killed-editorial-criticizing-trumps-cabinet-picks/

jjfh.bsky.social•76 days ago

They're scared their execs would get Luigi'd by Trump supporters.

rm4.bsky.social•76 days ago

Judd, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the media has been bending over to Trump since 2015. Im happy to post the graphic of the NYT front page Hillary "email scandles."

music49.bsky.social•76 days ago

Mischaracterizing WTH 🤦🏻‍♀️ boycott ABC 😤💯

yablak.net•76 days ago

Corporations are not people and you cannot assign moral values to them.. no matter what the supreme Court would have you believe.

finished99.bsky.social•76 days ago

Who's left to rely on for any news?

notdontrmp.bsky.social•76 days ago

The media’s obsession with kissing Trump’s ring is RIDICULOUS. They built him up and now they’re bending over backwards to prop up his image while he continues to spread lies. There’s no journalistic integrity left. The real question is, how much longer are we going to PUT UP with this farce? SAD!

justibasa.bsky.social•75 days ago

Really hate seeing people and companies bending the knee to that orange asshole.

judecash.bsky.social•75 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/judecash.bsky.social/post/3lddtwg2uq22l

doom-scroller24.bsky.social•76 days ago

Just another reason why Mika and Joe are so pathetic

marehare.bsky.social•76 days ago

Trump did rape her.

crazylilme.bsky.social•76 days ago

So much for that whole freedom of the press idea 🙄 ABC news has some explaining to do

theginabeana.bsky.social•75 days ago

Disgusting

scottthomas.bsky.social•76 days ago

You mean since he first announced

staceestx.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yep, Pathetic. Shameful.

normh.bsky.social•76 days ago

Katherine Graham, Ben Bradlee, Arthur Sulzberger -they're rolling in their graves in disgust at the utter cowardice & complicity of the legacy media, that during their time at the helms of once-great news organizations actually held the powerful to account. Without that, our democacracies are dying.

kay-vandenberg.bsky.social•76 days ago

Ffs

wjbotany.bsky.social•76 days ago

Probably none of the settlement will end up at the presidential museum. More likely the money will end up lining Drumpf’s pockets, like the fake charities he ran.

kjlv8888.bsky.social•76 days ago

🤬🤬🤬

skeletired.bsky.social•76 days ago

Is it more than obedience? Are they actively developing novel pathways to deliver money into the regime?

teresainspires1.bsky.social•76 days ago

Don’t feel sorry for them. The media lost its way when they preferred to write books to make money instead of actually doing its job. From anchors, reporters &commentators, their greediness usurp the authority to speak. They are morally bankrupt. Expose the guttersnipes.

onemoney.bsky.social•76 days ago

Is it too late for Biden to sue ABC so it can pay 15 million to his presidential library? This is ridiculous shocking disgusting angering...

p0lka.bsky.social•76 days ago

This is so disgusting to me. This type of thing makes mainstream media a waste of breath. It all is becoming just Trump news.

taz132.bsky.social•76 days ago

It sickening!!!!

mysimplesnapshot.bsky.social•76 days ago

Trump gets away with everything and gets punished for nothing. It’s sickening

2alarm.bsky.social•75 days ago

Makes me more ill than I already am.

tripps78.bsky.social•76 days ago

So he gets paid but Carroll doesn’t. Got it. America is amazing.

ramonkw.bsky.social•76 days ago

It really is pathetic. Media caved in to Trump a long time ago.

rockhead21.bsky.social•76 days ago

Going right into Trumps pocket of course.

jofromeurope.bsky.social•76 days ago

He just had cold fingers 🤷🏻‍♀️

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

eck6.bsky.social•76 days ago

Justice is served!

realamericalady.bsky.social•76 days ago

It might have been worth $15M for ABC to make Trump testify under Oath in deposition!?!

evguy.bsky.social•76 days ago

For better or worse, I decided to move away from ALL tv news. This is a big deal for me as I am a news junkie but they ALL seemed to have lost their way. SMH.

valerair.bsky.social•76 days ago

Trump is taming them

djhaza.bsky.social•76 days ago

Just like last time. Weak SOBs.

orangecrusher.bsky.social•76 days ago

How many failures of the public trust is this now? Anyone counting?

patty316.bsky.social•76 days ago

What’s that President crap

rogerbull.bsky.social•76 days ago

All corporations are expecting (for good reason) another giant tax cut even if it means gutting Social Security. They. Don’t. Care.

kb5810.bsky.social•76 days ago

Totally ridiculous. Expect more of this now that ABC bent the knee

mxhrad.bsky.social•76 days ago

Trump has all three branches of govt, all billionaires and now all of our media. We are running towards fascism way faster than I would expect. The Democrats are going to kiss the ring next (if they haven’t already). There is no resistance to him.

Did we all just give up in this country?