It's also uniformly accessible to people who cannot parse big words or abstraction of any kind. We hate watch and there was a time when Mark Levin went from 10th grade level to 5th. I KNOW MSNBC isn't some high scholarly thing, but I can't imagine MAGA making it through a Rachel Maddow opening.
I wish I could read it to the end, because “what do we do about it” is the part I’m interested in, but (ironically?), ad popups kept sending me back to the beginning and finally killed the page.
People talk about Dem messaging and it’s not clear to me how they get a message across in that ecosystem especially when legacy media has signaled that it won’t make waves by pushing back forcefully. Instead, they choose to try to play a both sides game that strains credulity.
Case in point: the GOP says NOTHING about Trump’s criminal convictions, rape adjudication etc. Threats of dictatorship? Whatever man. They fall in line. Always.
Meanwhile - Democrats have perfected the circular firing squad made all the more worse by anti-Trumpers’ sniper attacks of said CFS.
Well yeah. An interesting question (to me) is, is this just because of circumstance, e.g. a nasty Australian who buys up media properties? Or is it a natural outcome of deferential conservatives and skeptical liberals, that the one side will end up goose-stepping to hell while the other dithers...?
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ― Malcolm X
Right Wing Media is also much bigger than one might think.
NYT? CNN? WaPo? LA Times? They might have been neutral and objective once, but no longer. They're fully on board with Trump, they're just more circumspect about it.
I've always said this. Right wingers fight amongst themselves in their communities, but their outward messaging and projection is unified. When the talking point comes out every outlet repeats it endlessly, toes it back to like two or three core fears.
The left and other media just sorta argues
In the open, talks about nuance or has a bunch of wildly different takes. There isn't a unified message that is easy to pick up which lets the right define the left however they want by cherry picking examples and pounding on it in a unified voice.
We need to unify on economic populism.
Its the only message the is effective and speaks to everyone's problems. We should still support and fight for other issues and people, but everyone is impacted by monopolistic corporate power and ultra wealthy multi- billionaires.
Agree. We’ve gotten ourselves stuck on silly things like rights for people, but if we can get the right to see our economic path forward as more viable for them, maybe eventually we can cram freedom for all down their throats the way they’re trying to cram the Bible down ours.
I’ve believed for a while that the long term project of everyone who isn’t wearing a red hat needs to be getting Dems to win rural elections again. And yeah, piercing the right wing media bubble in rural America will be a major part of it. They can’t continue to just cede that info space.
This is exactly what happened when Kamala Harris secured the nomination when Biden dropped out. But we can see that the right wing media and centrist legacy media pivoted back to sanewashing and ignoring Trump’s age and bizarre performances. They objectively treated the two oldest
This is what @mcuban.bsky.social should do. Make news every day. Do something anything. It can be smart or dumb. It doesn’t have to always work. It just has to be enough that Fox covers it.
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Meanwhile - Democrats have perfected the circular firing squad made all the more worse by anti-Trumpers’ sniper attacks of said CFS.
"One voice"?
Bulwark is Commentary is National Review is Reason is Fox is Wall Street Journal?
No sane person believes that.
NYT? CNN? WaPo? LA Times? They might have been neutral and objective once, but no longer. They're fully on board with Trump, they're just more circumspect about it.
The left and other media just sorta argues
We need to unify on economic populism.