It is so discouraging to see that the media hasn't learned a single thing over the past decade. They normalize the absolutely insane things Trump and his surrogates do and treat them as legitimate.
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At a certain point, we have to recognize that the billionaire owners of ALL mainstream media ensure that it will never "learn" any of the things that would threaten the profit and control of the owners.
The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.
We are perhaps the most propagandized people on Earth.
I’ve even given up on NPR - they’re becoming just like the rest. Pacifica Radio is listener supported and left-leaning but there’s only like 5 stations. (They’re on tune in.) I follow @propublica.org and @meidastouch.bsky.social
They’re part of the problem because they’re normalizing the abnormal, the gross and unjust. Then they wonder why the kids start to get indocrinated into the cult, you ALLOWED them to drink the damn kool-aid and told them that was normal behavior!
I never imagined I’d become a person who turned away from the media, but since the election, I literally can’t bear the sources I formerly subscribed to for decades (NYT etc). It is terribly disappointing and heartbreaking.
I think they thrive on the chaos and secretly wanted Trump to win. They kept giving him air time. Now they have a 24/7 shock and awe news generator. Now, they can sell us on more fear and write more books.
I believe there are two core problems:
1. The monetary incentive is to have officials that constantly create drama to discuss and
2. Most of society is numb to how bombastic he is.
Now, he is reshaping the GOP leadership to be a mirror of him, which will last long past his administration.
Someone with very little legal experience for AG! This isn't normal. Don't write about it like it's normal. A guy who likes to workout but is not a medical professional for HHS and who is an anti-vaxxer? This is dangerous. DANGEROUS. Call it dangerous. Deadly. What are y'all doing????
He has killed many people by spreading anti-vax disinfo and it's so infuriating that it's now getting all this normalization and front page coverage. I'm just raging about it.
Let’s call it a DEI pick and all will make sense 😎. Really, now we have to have golden credentials? Freaks and circus clowns have been the soup de hour for the last 4 years.
What "they" are all doing is hedging their bets. Jockeying for position.
Media moguls & journos look to history as well as Putin's global authoritarian alliances and know that only loyal Party members will receive licences & highly regulated permits to post, print and broadcast.
It really blows my mind. I legitimately cannot process how SO MANY people just do not seem to possess critical thinking or common sense. And if you DO see what you act like you don’t, what is the “why” behind not saying something?
It gives me a small measure of hope that one of the NPR articles on here about RFK is currently getting ratio'd. I wish that they would be better but its nice to see some signs that folks are at least displaying some media literacy on the topic.
I agree about these whacky appointments. But Cabinet secretaries have almost always been political. Many of them have an abiding interest, but they're not necessarily experts (Buttigege in Transpo?). I suspect, and hope, the big, bloated bureaucracy slows their roll.
I had the distinct sense that some folks involved in coverage of the AG candidate held their breaths (and pulled their punches) knowing their own behavior wasn’t so hot. See also: the zeal for Cuomo.
I just commented to "The New Yorker Daily" on their headline "RFK Jr.'s Health Crusade" What do they mean by calling it a crusade, making it seem legitimate, perhaps a little over the top, misguided.....but basically a point of view (his) that should be considered.....jaysus.
Their goal is to burn it all down and remake it in their way. They don’t care about us. Their goal is power and if they make measles great again fine to them.
Yesterday @columjournreview.bsky.social posted a useful, succinct video with tips from reporter and prof. Sheila Coronel for how journalists should function / report / resist dictatorial regimes globally. We've already failed at so much of it:
In the two months before the election, even the best papers (e.g. NYT, WaPo) could not resist. I counted 3 times the number of headlines containing the word "Trump" compared to those with "Harris." It didn't matter if the headlines were pos or neg — it mattered that his name appeared so often.
What can they do instead? I’m serious. I don’t see Nicolle Wallace normalizing it. Or Rachel Maddow. Or Jim Acosta. Americans voted for this—-so appalling, but many of us have stopped watching the news. It’s just so depressing!
I heard on npr yesterday in the normal upbeat tone: “…later we’ll discuss what trump means when he says he’ll destroy is enemies. Now for today’s news… ”. Like is this real life?!?
I said that to a friend who also hates Trump. She told me I was playing into his hands by calling fake news. I am saying that the media (MSNBC) at times did not call him out. They went along with his treacherous malarkey.
I'm absolutely stealing from @mtsw.bsky.social, but it's because the media bosses in question like Trump and want him to succeed. I think the only way out is to go around, but that requires the kind of repetition and reach that the Dem establishment has yet to develop.
I feel like we just have to get rid of them and start over. Or replace them because the sane washing is making life worse for those of us with the ability to think rationally.
The refs have been so thoroughly worked through decades of being screamed at about "liberal bias" that they are now completely cowed and utterly worthless.
I stopped watching during his last hell fire. I read my news and sometimes catch local news. I subscribed to newspapers from the two larger cities on either side of me.
Literally just saw the WaPo Opinions say it's between a car crash and a reality show.
Like, he's clearly said he wants to destroy our government, he's now putting people in who will do that, and they are still, "Who knows who could be right."
The media: ‘it’s been a week and the World hasn’t caved in yet. Seems like the warnings were overblown’. HE’S NOT ACTUALLY PRESIDENT YET! On a smaller scale it’s like when people in U.K. were claiming that economic dooming on Brexit was overblown, prior to us actually leaving the Single Market.
I keep wondering if Sarah Palin, who was the outrageously ridiculous GOP figure I believe 87 years ago (187 years ago?), broke them with the whole “lamestream media” thing. Probably goes back farther…
And they’ll claim that they’ve learned the lesson and are committed to doing better just to jump right back in with the same bs. And get upset when people rightfully critique.
Not just the media. Across the political spectrum people took the high moral ground ("they go low, we go high") and treated everything he did as if it was a deliberate strategy. This emboldened him and his followers. By the time the high moral people changed tactics, it was already far too late.
And they still are! Ridiculous column by the #WashingtonPost Editorial Board today on how #Democrats in PA are "thumbing their noses at" the rule of law. I can't even. #LawlessGOP
This is all part of the strategy—to flood the zone with nonstop chaos and bullshit, sending the media into a tailspin and the rest of us into outrage cycles—while he loots the government, commits more crimes, and ties up the justice system so he can never be prosecuted. MSM hasn’t learned AT ALL 😩
If any thing, they've unlearned. And the richer their owners get, the less legitimate reporting is making the front page--or any page. Critical thinking? Oh pshaw.
Didn't learn a single thing. Undeniably galling. But after monitoring corporate news since the 90s I wish I was surprised. Remember all those crocodile tear-stained "how did we let this happen, we must and will do better?" mea culpas pieces after his 2016 win? Then...right back to normalizing.
This is the reason he's president elect at the moment.
That and the nazi trump regime sitting in elected positions that should have been arrested with trump. Like I've been saying since J6. The coup never ended.
The problem is that Local stations often have the most progressive local and regional news available. I can, and do, get national and international news from multible unrelated sources, but local coverage is thin on the ground.
We don’t really have mainstream news media anymore, just for profit entertainment media dressed up as news. They only learned how to grab people’s attention and they don’t do that as well as social media.
It's so egregious that I now think they do it purposely. When Trump won in 2016, "mainstream" cable and newspapers' ratings and revenues shot up. They thought that would happen again if Trump won this time. But this time, they're losing viewers/subscribers.
It’s why so many of us are no longer consuming MSM. We made him so big from the non stop consumption. I’m not wasting another minute of my life giving Trump or MSM any of my time. Don’t feed the beast!
And they act like it’s all perfectly normal and not a cause for alarm. Someone said today that the world is. “adapting” to this new reality I’m not “adapting”. I’m freaking the fuck out and wondering why nobody else is. 🫨
We all need to stop watching the three broadcast network, MSNBC and CNN channels except for the entertainment shows that air at night on ABC, NBC and CBS. Deprive them of their ratings/dollars.
I think it’s a strategy to put these people at the head of the table as they’re checked out scrolling twitter and distracting us while the rest of the table does the most evil shit imaginable.
Look who owns the media channels and social media sites and then you will understand. The staff is literally not allowed to do what you are asking. Same reason the Washington Post was unable to endorse Kamala.
They understand that the motion of capital has swung in the favor of the Republicans. They've all learned plenty; They've listened to Trump tell them verbatim he would prosecute his political enemies. So, cowards they are, they step in line. This is "New Pleasantville."
It's not a question of learning. White nationalism is a majority position among the white population, their #1 cause, and influencers (I wouldn't call them journalists) in corporate media are probably no exception to that. They simply like Trump because he gives them the one thing the want the most.
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They are doing exactly what they want to do.
Asking them to change is pointless.
They have a 95 watt radio tower. We have a 5 watt radio tower.
We need more radio towers
The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.
We are perhaps the most propagandized people on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/live/POFHS8qPsHQ?si=I9biwzvCX7ffmsCL&t=52
There’s no money in peace.
1. The monetary incentive is to have officials that constantly create drama to discuss and
2. Most of society is numb to how bombastic he is.
Now, he is reshaping the GOP leadership to be a mirror of him, which will last long past his administration.
Same playbook in this country.
They have the 3rd most viewed YT page and over 3.5 m subscribers
Let's keep helping our democracy fighters grow.
They have become our media.
MSM has failed.
Also follow @llebrun.bsky.social
He has some great lists of journalists posted.
Media moguls & journos look to history as well as Putin's global authoritarian alliances and know that only loyal Party members will receive licences & highly regulated permits to post, print and broadcast.
Our outrage is music to them.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/jennpozner/3502163673760868433?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=ODdnZDJ2NDJ4NjNm
He did it before.
They'll say we complain about every pick, so get ready.
We all hate him. We all would be happier with him in chains. Even his peeps just want an iron hand, they don't even care if it's daddy.
Like, he's clearly said he wants to destroy our government, he's now putting people in who will do that, and they are still, "Who knows who could be right."
Reckless.
If you don't oppose it or decry it, you're complicit.
If I want opinion, I'll find it.
That and the nazi trump regime sitting in elected positions that should have been arrested with trump. Like I've been saying since J6. The coup never ended.
https://youtu.be/FpOd9ZTPfA4?si=sVV-6Cnjir2WzVZ7
Entire generations have been addicted to humiliation porn, outrage and drama. They think cruelty is funny. Hence, the non stop trolling and baiting.