Out of every national election some institutions decay and die, while others emerge and grow stronger. Legacy media is a sad example of the former. Bluesky is a hopeful example of the latter.
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It’s only a matter of time that those that pumped money in propaganda on legacy media will reach BlueSky the same way Twitter was run before Elon took it over.
National media has been dying for a long time. Paddy Chayefsky's "Network" ridiculed corporate influence on news back in the 70's. Tools like "Ad Fontes" are helping to show the bias, but there is no replacement for actual deep journalism - and more importantly the willingness of people to read it!
What sucks is with dying media and really warped ecosystem of podcast and social media fills this void with conspiracies and “alternative truths “. Would love to see section 230 repealed or the very least revised.
There is still only one way to get correct news and that is independent news organisations like the bbc anything else is biased or just opinions either here or x it’s just peoples opinions not news or the truth
Let us pray. We are going to need to work with one another going forward. I'm pretty sure shutting that down was the plan when Lemon bought Xitter. We will prove we are not powerless.
Oh I think with what is going on in the West, there seems to be a real mismatch between the information / social media age and the current structure of liberal (majority driven) "representative" democracy. Feels like we are dipping our toes into the long journey to a new model of future governance.
This is a disappointing take, Marc. For years, many on the right have delegitimized hard working journalists by painting all media with broad strokes -- the "MSM" and "fake news."
Your reference to "legacy media" falls into the same trap. There are many talented ournalists out there who still provide excellent reporting for legacy media organizations.
Responsible journalism when most of your lovely papers decide it's better to bend over backwards to sanitize Trump and throw queer people under the bus every opportunity possible?
To ambulance chase and interview bigots in the main article yet just leave a small part of it for the actual victims?
Legacy media owns the distrust of the marginalized people, they build that reputation themselves. You don't make several groups run on warning to not talk to the press by being actually good
I am so utterly disgusted with the corporate mainstream media normalizing him and giving him space. Feckless cowards, money-loving, power-hungry elitist.
Well, I dont want to be subjected to interference next election. I dont want to be "given" space, I want to own my own little part and control things from there.
Legacy & cable...will not & should not recover. The biased "reporting" & pearl clutching over Biden while mostly giving Trump a pass cemented their demise. I do not read or watch & I have never felt better.
I also am very hopeful that Bluesky can become a strong, sensible institution that enables open and productive exchange of ideas. Right now, it looks to be in danger of becoming very one-sided from a political perspective.
Hopefully this is true, after this election is there going to be some sort of branch of government or regulation for Bluesky? What is happening to mainstream media is sad, but then again, that’s the nature of things. My hopes are up for Bluesky.
I shut off cable 20 yrs ago and stopped watching any news 2016. If there is something of importance it makes its way to social
Media. I can watch clips without participating in their financial gain for gate keeping information that should be public. #TurnOFFALLTheNewd
and Chorus is an example of the latter as well! a newly forming network of progressive influencers and creators focused on message coordination and improved production quality! It is meant to replace legacy media or at least show them we are pissed off. For more Info, look here: https://www.wearechorus.com/
I’m not sad about the decline of legacy media. Things change & it was unwilling to meet challenges. It is now owned by billionaires w/no interest in honest, objective reporting.
I was sad WaPo was sold & canceled my subscription, as it is an instrument of the toxic right. We cancelled tv news, too.
Hey she/her You are the worst thing other than soros for America. Hope you finally shut the fuck up with your democracy bullshit. You live in a Republic. Not a democracy. You’ve ruined election integrity.
Legacy media doing it to themselves. The first network to stop trying to profit from their news segments and bring back Brokaw/Cronkite style news reporting of JUST the facts (no slant or opinion) could reset the current downward spiral.
People are so greedy tho
I resisted social media, but as a retiree, it's becoming.... interesting. I thought about X, but once Musk came into the picture, definitely not. So here I am Blue Sky ready to spout opinions, nonsense, facts, BS & general comaraderie.
insane to me dems have let fox, oan, newsnation brainwash nation without an answer. msm cnn, msnbc, abc, cbs, nbc have failed us. deep pocket dems should start 24/7 non profit news like bluesky alternative. @mcuban.bsky.social @the-last-word-with-lawrence-o-donnell-msnbc.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy
Try not to despair. There are many ways to fight. One way is to show everyone that you know we have something worth fighting for & you're totally doing that. Don't sell yourself short - sometimes 'fight' just means 'comment'. It's like planting a tree that you know you'll never sit under.
I'm not far above you, but I'm not going down without as much fight I can muster. I'm plugging into local mutual aid for a reason. Lots of us are going to need support. There are still some things I can do. There are people who care. I'm one of them.
Legacy media has lost all credibility tbh. Couldn't believe my eyes with the Amsterdam situation with the Israelis. I now doubt everything I've ever been taught bc the gaslighted was real even with video evidence.
Marc, curiousity only here, but what’s the deal about Bullet Ballots? Never heard the term till now but is this something that’s being looked into due to the insane “doesn’t make much sense” quantity of them cast in all 7 swing states in 2024? 🤔
Sadly, candidates (primarily Dem candidates) have been taught to never ask for a recount or challenge an election, no matter the questions that need to be answered.
We have some twitter participants bemoaning lack of blue checks and sounding like they would prefer to have an oligarchic system of thoughts. I like the democratic, chaotic style we see emerging currently.
Bluesky will ultimately end of like every other platform. Either they will get bought out or competitors will come pretty heavily targeting the left leaning people.
Saw a segment on the Thom Hartman show and his guest, a data scientist, said there are anomalies in the swing states and hand recounts are in order. Did you hear anything Marc?
Do you believe Kamala should ask for a recount, especially in swing states? Do you think there were discrepancies in the count? Or are we (some) just wishing that to be true?
Legacy media lies to the population, and we're fed right-wing propaganda. Their mistake is thinking we're all dumb enough to believe that what we see with our own eyes isn't true.
We need to encourage Biden to use SCOTUS given Presidential Immunity to void 2024 Election until there is a full recount of at least Swing States. Reality, MAGA/GOP plan is to deconstruct our Democracy and create Fascist state with Trump as Dictator. Either way, Trump is going to persecute Biden.
Block, block, block. It's the only thing that has ever worked since the advent of Usenet groups in the late 1970s. Allowing bad actors to participate out of a misguided perception of "free speech" ALWAYS results in destruction of online communities.
Sadly there’s nothing in the liberal echosphere that resembles the ability of Feaux News and the like to so effectively brainwash the simpleminded low info voter. The so called mainstream media still clings to a journalistic ethic of fairness that Feaux News doesn’t give a shit about.
There is no journalistic ethics in mainstream media.... considering how easily they've gone to run for Trump and throwing marginalized people under the bus.
Fox news might be the worse but when the supposed "Good" media papers follow the transphobic UK model there isn't much hope for them.
I've been thinking about that a lot lately. It's incredible how certain institutions can become complacent and stagnant, while others innovate and thrive. Bluesky is a great example of the latter, and I'm excited to see how it will continue to shape the social media landscape!
But I believe Lawrence, Joy Reid, Katie Phang, Velshi and Al Sharpton don't do it for the ratings. They genuinely see him as a threat. I can't say the same for the daytime hosts and Ari who always casually brings dangerous voices on his show.
I'm not sure how popular Free Speech TV network is but if it was a cable news network it could help Dem messaging. They could include hard news shows, satirical shows and other niche shows focusing on labor, climate, science, minorities, and all sorts of things.
I don’t think the people advising Harris know the devastating impact that NOT doing a recount in swing states is having. Already donations are down bc we feel like dems didn’t even try to stand up for us like republicans do for their constituents. Disappointing
I think this is why coalitions can’t center politicians and must center objectives and support the folks that help achieve those objectives. That said, my observation has been that R’s don’t stand up for their constituents. It’s just perception, not material.
I agree but sometime perception is as important. In 20 trump cried fraud & succeeded in giving the illusion he was fighting for his voters. It didn’t matter if he lost, it was the point that he tried.
I wasn’t taking issue with the recounting. It’s more about centering elections and politicians when they represent a means to an end, not the end itself.
I understand but I think they just want to let it lie and get through the 4 years somehow, and get back to normalcy. Gops just did this in 2020. If we do it again in the next election, even if we beat them in 2028 or 26 they’d never accept it, they’d just call it rigged. That is a door trump
Why would we bother to vote for them ever again, tho? We know there was interference at minimum, if not outright cheating. If they're not going to fight for us/our democracy, they haven't earned our votes.
I hate to say it, but even if we win in 2028 things won't go back to normal. MAGA invited people to give into their most bigoted, racist, and transphobic thoughts. It's gonna take at least a generation or two for things to hopefully go back to "normal."
Unfortunately opened, and someone does have to close it before it gets ripped off its hinges and can never be closed. I’m not saying I don’t have questions and yeah I’d much rather have Harris in the WH,but if we didn’t do a peaceful transfer this time we might’ve never had one again. Is what it is
It won’t be peaceful in 4 years. Nor is ignoring a problem the best solution. people are disenfranchised regardless if there’s a recount or not. I know in 2016 the recount helped show the validity of the election. Maybe PA will provide that
Democrats won't convince people to vote for them if they don't stand up for anything and they refuse to fight for anything.
They may lose, but JC, fight!!!
Well, they shouldn’t feel that way! In a way, that’s exactly why Trump challenged the election — to create an anticipatory challenge that in his case had no validity. A prophetic projection, probably even conscious on their part.
Right or wrong, he challenged the election bc he had the right by state law to do so. There is nothing wrong w/ taking advantage of those laws to give people peace of mind.
I hear you. Harris has a #DUTY to all of us to demand recounts, and to defend the Constitution. She's a good person - but some folks suspect that she is either being getting bad advice, or else THUGS from the ruthless TrumPutin cabal are blackmailing or threatening her about something.
MSDNC's Rachel insisted for years that W's FBI Director was going to save democracy. She failed to inform us that Mueller accused the wrong guy during the anthrax investigation because that suspect petted the sniffer dogs, who licked him back. Whoduh thunk it, the anthrax killer is an animal lover.
Legacy media is awful. CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, News Max. They are all propogandists who are biased cheerleaders for their "side". Hyperbole and hysteria are common tools used to create accepted narratives.
Legacy media is owned by Billionaires who direct the slant of the news. It died a long time ago. Along with politicians when citizens united passed and corruption became legitimized.
It's tweets like this that make me want to leave bluesky before it ever starts. So many accounts just trying to get attention by saying things like this so everyone gets their dopamine hit from hitting the like button. It's just going to be Twitter 2.0 in no time.
Legacy media I think is trying to turn things around and gain the trust of the people again. Will it work and will they actually try hard enough 🤷🏻♂️ but it’s interesting to watch it all unfold in real time
Bluesky is good, but it’s not enough to overcome the massive advantages MAGA-world has with Fox, AM talk radio, Joe Rogan and the rest of the MAGAVerse. Aside from the numerical advantage they have, they also have embraced lying as a strategy.
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Since finding Powell's 1971 "memo" on how the 'rich' can take control of America
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-courts-secrecy-lobbyist/powell-memo.pdf
control ACADEMIA, MEDIA, COURTS, POLITICS; I see the infrastructure of $, networks, and orgs ppl like Koch and Leonard Leo built over 50 yrs.
The reported numbers just don’t add up.
https://youtu.be/H5h49eLdntk?si=ta1o_0_N-GAXcEDt
@kamalaharrisbsky.bsky.social @joebidenbsky.bsky.social
To ambulance chase and interview bigots in the main article yet just leave a small part of it for the actual victims?
Sky is the ceiling For Bluesky
Media. I can watch clips without participating in their financial gain for gate keeping information that should be public. #TurnOFFALLTheNewd
https://bsky.app/profile/ltrstothesenator.bsky.social/post/3lbcunxk2bc2s
Bluesky is worth about $100 million.
This is not a fair deal.
I was sad WaPo was sold & canceled my subscription, as it is an instrument of the toxic right. We cancelled tv news, too.
Much love from up north.
💙🇺🇸🦅🗽🕊💙
msm is dead morally
Bluesky is my new news
Popular vote says what?
Onward gdamnit!
I'm so much more comfortable here. Knowing I will not be attacked for posting something that shouldn't cause a fight is refreshing.
Thanks for being you and all you do.
People are so greedy tho
We organize, build new institutions. Become a human news network here. Uplift new thinkers, artists, musicians, activists, businesses, co-ops
There's 20 million of us here, we can leave MAGA to fall on their own
I have so much hope. There's
nothing but blue skys ahead.💙
https://open.substack.com/pub/spoonamore/p/duty-to-warn-letter-to-vp-harris?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://youtu.be/zlOCucpEs5o?si=YQ9N1dl7L8nDBHTT
@derben.bsky.social
This needs to be looked at asap
Bullet ballot statistical anomalies must recounted.
Tonight is NV deadline-Any defeated candidate can request recount
@marcelias.bsky.social
Harris / Walz must protect the Constitution. National security. Recount swing states.
@marilynrmarks.bsky.social
responding to criticism with a general disdain and contempt
Which suggests that they’re doing all this *on purpose* to dispense with their historical role as an adversary to power
Fox news might be the worse but when the supposed "Good" media papers follow the transphobic UK model there isn't much hope for them.
MSNBC’s failure was disappointing.
Would be happy if they found new homes, especially Lawrence and Katie.
They may lose, but JC, fight!!!