drives me fucking nuts too. Remember Hillary Clinton's e-mails? Trump's idiotic lies about government data should have gotten at least as much attention. THEY DIDN'T. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

deanbaker13.bsky.social • 71 days ago

drives me fucking nuts too. Remember Hillary Clinton's e-mails? Trump's idiotic lies about government data should have gotten at least as much attention. THEY DIDN'T.

Reposted from Jim Saksa

This drives me fucking nuts

Media constantly and repeatedly calls out his lies. Don’t get mad at reporters for the fact that a lot of people don’t give a shit about facts!

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marvinbutters.bsky.social•70 days ago

They'll point to one story they did on it, but they covered the paper with EMAIL! stories for months at a time. It's like a composer pointing to an accidental to pretend a piece is in a different key

pelledge.bsky.social•71 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/davmicrot.bsky.social/post/3ldp2hk7fmc2q The latest version of "but her emails" and Hunter's laptop.

theelites.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yeah a couple of news stories....they pushed a non-existent border crisis, for months, and stayed virtually silent on Trump's economic numbers where he negotiated higher gas prices, and his company losing over 70% in market value where we're supposed to put our trust in him with the economy.

jimsaksa.com•71 days ago

They did! More so! You are (a) conflating the NYTimes print front page with all media and (b) just not getting that what print media does/doesn’t cover does NOT MATTER electorally!
See, e.g.:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548

https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/12/05/trump-wins-news-deserts-in-landslide/

jimsaksa.com•71 days ago

If you think what any print outlet does or doesn’t cover is the problem, you’re wrong! We can safely assume the subscribers of NYT, post, whatever, they are 80% dems now.
Its a failure of media only in that media’s audience is only a subset of voters

jimsaksa.com•71 days ago

MSM’s failing has been that it’s been campaigned against for 50+ years as the nattering nabobs of negativity without pushback and now something like 40% of America doesn’t trust it, and another ~15% just ignores most of it while getting its news from Joe Rogan

micah541.bsky.social•71 days ago

Definitely one of the most painful things about being on Bluesky over the last year has been this constant clamoring suggesting that if we just ref-worked the media into bolder headlines about Trump we could wake up the electorate, as if screaming louder at your dog will teach him quantum physics.

pelledge.bsky.social•71 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/davmicrot.bsky.social/post/3ldp2hk7fmc2q

micah541.bsky.social•70 days ago

There's just no way you can ever convince me that NYT becoming HuffPo would save democracy.

jortscity.bsky.social•70 days ago

I don't want the NYT to be HuffPo, I just want them to be the NYT without the brain poisoning they've seemed to acquire

hobbidysparks.bsky.social•70 days ago

You are blind.

pelledge.bsky.social•70 days ago

Lol. Nobody is saying that. But when the times runs hundreds of stories about crime and the economy being bad or about to go into recession, and then people voting saying they think the economy is bad, is it a shock? I think you are missing the bigger picture.

robairone.bsky.social•71 days ago

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jimsaksa.com•71 days ago

Trust me, I wish what I and my colleagues wrote mattered more! But most political coverage is written for an already hyper engaged, partisan audience and has nothing to do with informing the general public, sadly. You wanna swing voters? Create a left wing version of Rogan