Local press reported my conviction yet failed to report my exoneration and unanimous supreme court decision.
Put this under why people are hostile to the press.
Lies of omission and they protected their kkkops from the truth. Happened to me and probably many others.
End impunity.
So I'm sick of the sane washing, softening of fascism and disinformation from the media at large & I'm the problem & I'm the "reason why Trump won"? Okay. Sure. Since I have so much power I can't wait to lose my morals and do whatever like politicians & journalists have done. Whoo fuckin' hoo 🤡
I grew up first in a newspaper newsroom (my mom was a columnist), then an NBC newsroom when she moved. There are a million journalists fighting for truth every day. W/o those journalists there would be NO checks on malfeasance. Th 4th estate is essential to our system.
The sellouts standing out is the problem and journalists come on here and condescend readers. They think it's a fan club. They're high on their own farts. Arrogant, prideful and they don't respect their own work. Trust fund brats that couldn't cut it in college. They became "journalists".
Those TV show hosts present their information to millions more readers than any form of journalism. Those TV show hosts call themselves journalists. Those TV show hosts have credibility (even if undeserved)
And I didn't know the Washington Post and the NYTs have a cable TV channel 🙄
The New York Times pitchbot exists because of how stupid journalism has gotten. It's been a joke for sometime that journalism is encroaching on the Onion's satire work.
We're not going to make it if journalism stays the same since 2015. They live Trump. He's good for business.
But they call themselves journalists and millions watch legacy media not the local "Pennsyltucky Constitution" that 1200 subscribe to and most use that tiny insignificant paper to line a littler box.
Journalism didn't fail America this election rather journalism has been failing for 20 years.
I miss the old days of Twitter when the journalists I followed broke news before the mainstream media did. I didn't have cable, so the only way for me to follow the events after the Boston Marathon bombing was following a few journalists and those posting the live scanner channels.
Bluesky can absolutely be a place for journalists and I'd encourage them to start using this platform! If people don't like that, they can simply not follow or mute those accounts.
We need them here so that we can ridicule and shame the ones complicit in what the media has become and praise and amplify the ones that are performing as actual journalists and providing a VERY important aspect of healthy society.
Who the fuck said that "we", whoever this we is, shouldn't let journalists on Bluesky?
Content creators, artists and news media/independent journos has always been the backbone of social media, how do they expect to have a thriving community without them?
That's insane. All of the very blue accounts I follow are very happy to have journalists here, which makes me think that anyone saying otherwise is part of yet another disinformation campaign, wittingly or not.
Yeah no like we don’t want the ones that didn’t come over here in the first place because they said it was an echo chamber or whatever. Most of you that have been here are cool
Have you considered that we all live in a world where bad actors opinions are blasted on mainstream media every day? Blocking them from interacting with us on a social media app is not creating an echo chamber, because we cannot get away from their shit literally everywhere else.
Not what I said. Definitely Block & remove the idiotic trolls 🧌 and bad actors who won’t engage in actual debate and information sharing all day, everyday. Why I left Twat-ter 🐦 2 days after the election.
Anyone willing to discuss facts, evidence, opinions etc are wanted and welcome on my feed.
I’ve been disentangling myself from those accounts recently, they’re not really helping, look where we are.
Instead, I’m finding accounts of people and organizations that have been actively doing the work helping those in need. Finding my people in a sense.
Journalists are invaluable, the good ones. Different from "official accounts of shitty Vichy outlets" that are probably automated anyway and/or "vapid enabling pundits."
and there are many excellent journalists on here, some yep still employed (for now) by those same Vichy publications. I won't subscribe to the publications but as much as I can split those hairs I support those journos.
it'd probably be better for my mental health to just focus on weird funny shit and books and cats tbh.
sigh.
honestly can't tell if not doing so is genuinely helpful to me or anyone, or if I'm just craving the dopamine hits/desperately hoping for good news somehow
Unfortunately, *actual* journalists (of which you are most certainly one) are being lumped in with the presenters/repeaters that dominate the MSM. The latter are rightly scorned, while the former are vital if our democracy is to survive.
Journalism in America is dead. Tell someone in conversation what you do and watch them laugh thier ass off. Journalists are held in the same regard as a weatherman in 70s, dont know shit
What’s the point of open source communication if they didn’t allow journalists!? Just for selling us stuff we don’t need and selling our information, like meta?
Without independent journalists, where will we get reliable info? Do people not realize that a journalist aggragates and interprets information and then makes it easily accessible to the Gen pop? We need that!
There are journalists, informed people who do research, presenting their findings, both good and bad. Then there are political hacks, who present a narrative with an agenda.
I don't know you, but I trust you are the former, not the latter.
What troll is saying journalists shouldn't be allowed on Bsky?
Mind you-- Mainstream media might find that their "engagement" goes down overtime if they insist on leaning into clickbait headlines and creating artificial controversies.
I think in retrospect the poor treatment of journalists in the immediate wake of Mastodon becoming popular in 2022 really harmed its long-term success.
I don't think bluesky should gatekeep anyone. The more the merrier. Fuck it let the right wingers on as long as they aren't just here to troll. Moderation kept Twitter decent for years until Elon put his ass on the scale. I'm open to having the conversation and for those who aren't just block em
I’m grateful to have found some of our local journos on here. One of the main reason I was still occasionally checking in on the other site was to read their posts. That and bullying local politicians.
Why in the world wouldn't journalists be allowed on Bluesky? Are journalists some sort of subhuman group? I hate how modern politics has boiled down to dehumanizing not only people groups, but now it's doing it to people in certain professions.
Define "journalist";
- if it's someone who spins dem/rep genocide then ban em.
- If it's someone who promotes gov creating homeless children & killing sick ppl, ban em.
Otherwise, we need civil society to help sort out the state of the place. Journalists needed.
Who’s we? And why not? Journalists and media outlets are a huge part of what’s driving adoption and engagement here. News is breaking here often before X or Threads because they’re all flocking here. How is that not a good thing?
One of the things I loved about twitter pre-Elon was that I felt like I heard news before the media even began reporting it…and it was unfiltered by opinions. It was quite literally the only thing keeping me there at all over the last year. I welcome the journalists and news!
I think he means "Don't let the journalists on a leash to a trump millionaire on here to spread more bullshit we don't need for clicks".
They usually get one shot with me before I block them.
Normalizing this nightmare is illegal.
Big accounts are here mostly for the clicks. I have not seen any original ideas from most of them, just repeating what they steal from smaller accounts. A few exceptions there that don’t ask you for follows or keep counting how many they have.
it's a message I can't even get my head around..I'm here for the journos,..not the gamer/manga trash, or their pedo art..I can beat any Vidiot game ever made, just by pulling the plug..they're just "playing" against a digital calculator, anyway..and the pedo art is pathetic and 100%derivitave.
Journalists are important. On old twitter, the journalists were awesome exchanging information. I was able to nerd out and better understand policies that I would have never seen otherwise.
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Put this under why people are hostile to the press.
Lies of omission and they protected their kkkops from the truth. Happened to me and probably many others.
End impunity.
But the sellouts standout.
And I didn't know the Washington Post and the NYTs have a cable TV channel 🙄
We're not going to make it if journalism stays the same since 2015. They live Trump. He's good for business.
Journalism didn't fail America this election rather journalism has been failing for 20 years.
This is also the reason there is a method to report hateful posts.
We should also allow a dislike button 😏
Content creators, artists and news media/independent journos has always been the backbone of social media, how do they expect to have a thriving community without them?
That's insane. All of the very blue accounts I follow are very happy to have journalists here, which makes me think that anyone saying otherwise is part of yet another disinformation campaign, wittingly or not.
the ones we've had aren't journalists.
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that's super dumb.
Otherwise it does become an echo chamber. 🥱
Same reason we don’t want book bans, etc.
The only way to grow & learn from each other is through conversation.
Anyone willing to discuss facts, evidence, opinions etc are wanted and welcome on my feed.
Instead, I’m finding accounts of people and organizations that have been actively doing the work helping those in need. Finding my people in a sense.
I understand the "no journalist" sentiment, but people need to get better at blocking ones they don't like.
I suggest you to people because your work is fantastic and thought provoking.
it'd probably be better for my mental health to just focus on weird funny shit and books and cats tbh.
sigh.
honestly can't tell if not doing so is genuinely helpful to me or anyone, or if I'm just craving the dopamine hits/desperately hoping for good news somehow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4sJfNkimg
Three people, one minute, and you see them every day.
Just like Priya.
Thanks for the meme.
I don't know you, but I trust you are the former, not the latter.
She's a YouTuber, she does movie commentary and comedy. She's been doing a stand-up tour this year as well.
She's great. I think that a complete stranger who doesn't even know her channel, posting a meme of her, would surprise the heckin' heck outta her🤣🤣
Mind you-- Mainstream media might find that their "engagement" goes down overtime if they insist on leaning into clickbait headlines and creating artificial controversies.
But that's as it should be.
Would hate to see that happen here.
That said I get annoyed when journalists complain about bad vibes as soon as they walk in the door. We are walking on land other people like.
I’m not telling anyone to block anyone, but this I believe.
- if it's someone who spins dem/rep genocide then ban em.
- If it's someone who promotes gov creating homeless children & killing sick ppl, ban em.
Otherwise, we need civil society to help sort out the state of the place. Journalists needed.
It can affect their thoughts, opinions, and ways they craft their headlines articles and takes.
They NEED to be here on 🦋
They usually get one shot with me before I block them.
Normalizing this nightmare is illegal.
I welcome anyone who is civilized.