In Trump's first term, media orgs would credulously repeat Trump's claims to have saved jobs. Now they are credulously amplifying executive orders based on misleading premises that claim powers that Trump does not hold. Stop amplifying misinformation and aiding his attack on democracy! - ThreadSky

brendannyhan.bsky.social • 5 days ago

In Trump's first term, media orgs would credulously repeat Trump's claims to have saved jobs. Now they are credulously amplifying executive orders based on misleading premises that claim powers that Trump does not hold. Stop amplifying misinformation and aiding his attack on democracy!

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madmasters.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is so true. They need to use the "alleged" modifier with nearly all of this administration's stated goals.

yomaggie.bsky.social•5 days ago

That burns my butt too because media amplification leads to legitimization😤

sgthippie.bzky.team•5 days ago

I remember when Biden tried to put in an OSHA rule regarding vaccine requirements, and the media narrative was, “yeah, but SCOTUS is gonna shoot this down.”

bellatv55.bsky.social•5 days ago

yeah, what he said!

dishevldpeasant.bsky.social•5 days ago

I for one hope whenever we exit this nightmare that the press gets back to a state of existing to inform and not the abomination of infotainment it has been

nlbray.bsky.social•5 days ago

thefool37.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fucking media whores

leftofcomm.bsky.social•5 days ago

In Trump's first term, Upshot hacks tore off so many pearl necklaces when anyone running for office said that crimes the idiot was committing should be prosecuted.

Guess what? It worked! Turd-brain was never prosecuted for the crimes he committed. And here's your country.

kittymamausa.bsky.social•5 days ago

Extremely frustrating

skinnerboxusa.bsky.social•4 days ago

They like him, and they *want* to carry his water and do his PR.

These are highly educated, trained, experienced career professionals, not wide-eyed bumpkins brushing the turnip dust off their shoulders while the city-slicker con-man inspects their wallets.

This is the job they *intend* to do.

acadianrunner.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lol

walterdragon.bsky.social•5 days ago

The press either doesn't know or simply doesn't care that executive orders are not laws. They are proud to enable fascism.

trevondlogan.bsky.social•5 days ago

Our media is feckless. It’s time to accept that. It is what it is.

bstnboy.bsky.social•5 days ago

You just figuring that out now?

They've failed us the last 9 years.

curiousaudio.bsky.social•5 days ago

also gives Trump credit for conceding that he lost the 2020 election, but I don't recall him ever admitting that

curiousaudio.bsky.social•5 days ago

*appears to give credit

jacksonmcbride.bsky.social•5 days ago

Legacy media like to Times is dead. They are essentially propaganda tools for the right wing. Have been for years. There are some amazing couragous journalists but they are few and far between because legacy media survives on access to power.

b3d0u1n.bsky.social•5 days ago

👆it is pathetic

imdaviddunn.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is a feature, not a bug. No different than Iraq or Clinton emails coverage. Truth and clarity are not the goal of the publicly traded gaming company.

desdrayton.bsky.social•5 days ago

Don't print lies in the newspaper.

zebrafishevodevo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Executive Orders are wish lists in fancy memo form, not laws or decrees

alan-grant.bsky.social•5 days ago

I have long fantasized about dragging headline writers out into public and pillorying them for their sensationalism and/or understatement and now “sanewashing.” The fantasy expands in these troubled times.

steveimmasche.bsky.social•5 days ago

I get the feeling the NYT thinks rudimentary constitutional law is beyond its readership’s understanding. A quick perusal of what the Constitution says about voting would allow the reporter to point out to the reader this EO is performative.

paddydogcar.bsky.social•5 days ago

Besos. Zuckerberg and Maxwell are part of the Trump/Musk Russian sponsored coup.

greeneyedlady51.bsky.social•5 days ago

Agree! They treat fotus’s claims to annex Greenland as of it is a fait accompli. There is no acknowledgment of what would have to occur (probably militarily) for that to ever happen. The credulousness of too many reporters, who are not true journalists, results in misinformation.

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