There’s no way I could agree with this more strongly - perfectly stated ! freedom.press/issues/journ... - ThreadSky

Like ousting the Editor & Chief/Owner of the National Post just when the newspaper boxes were going on street coeners, Paul pulled a fast one. And he was my lawyer!

reply

hellaratty.bsky.social•3 days ago

Legacy media is captured. Must use reputable, independent media. There are many lists going around. Democracy Now! just turned 29. Zeteo is new, and run by Mehdi Hasan.

reply

ogredragon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Its not news if it is false.... News or the "Press" is the right to inform the public... not mislead them

reply

bniel.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm not sure there are enough persons of integrity in the media anymore. However, the need for a free and truthful press has never been greater. So maybe media should be not-for-profit organisations - that can't be owned by billionaires to ensure both their integrity and freedom.

reply

suzanne1968.bsky.social•3 days ago

And yet, they will ignore the calling. I just can't believe they have thrown away all the sacrifices our forefathers made. The lives lost to democracy are desecrated by the legacy media and those who subvert the Constitution.

reply

sgtfella.bsky.social•2 days ago

Murdock media must be eradicated.

reply

silentbob731.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Powers-That-Be can either deal with the First Amendment, or The Second...it's their choice.

reply

pyewmyfingerz.bsky.social•2 days ago

reply

leohorishny.bsky.social•3 days ago

And yet, what we have in the way of major media, are oligarch party organs. 😡

reply

theoceanbutterfly.bsky.social•2 days ago

Agreed, but the integrity of these major news networks no longer exists. Its all about money and making more of it off the American people who are foolish enough to believe their bullshit.

reply

kaysid.bsky.social•1 day ago

press corp need to help each other.

every REAL news outlet should give every AP journalist an id from their own news companies

c‘mon, reuters, cnn, npr,
aljazeera, bbc, msnbc, cbs, nbc, abc, la times, ny times, chicago tribune

stick together because one by one, you are next

reply

mrantifascism.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, and we must keep news alive. (i am trying to build a community of like minded anti-fascists so plz follow)

reply

alacritous.bsky.social•3 days ago

Except Journalism was captured years ago. the 4th estate is deader than Elvis.

reply

scottjenkins67.bsky.social•3 days ago

reply

alacritous.bsky.social•3 days ago

You a blogger or something?

reply

scottjenkins67.bsky.social•3 days ago

Journalist. And you're completely wrong.

reply

alacritous.bsky.social•3 days ago

reply

scottjenkins67.bsky.social•3 days ago

🙄

reply

nickmas.bsky.social•2 days ago

We need full-time mass protests in all major city centers with schedules and shifts.

Enough with blackout days before everyday becomes a blackout day for democracy.

Please share!

reply

berda42.bsky.social•2 days ago

For example, trying to privatize the USPS. It happens to be in the Constitution

reply

deadlinedemocracy.bsky.social•2 days ago

It is just a big business today. Just about profits.

reply

weshallprevail.bsky.social•2 days ago

SIGN your strike card! SHARE IT ON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA! We need 11 million to make this work! We can do it! We MUST save our country from the ruthless wannabe dictators! If we don't fight like hell, we may not have a country anymore! Sound familiar? Cripple the crooked!!

https://generalstrikeus.com

reply

coltranehendrix.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://citizenshandbook.org/get_rid_of_a_dictator.html

reply

lilhistorian.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is it too late? The billionaire owners of nearly all major media, print and TV, have squandered the First Amendment, used and abused it for their own ends.

reply

gardengirllisa.bsky.social•2 days ago

reply

robertshend.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, this

reply

childlesscatperson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Totally

reply

sabboo.bsky.social•2 days ago

WHATEVER WE CAN

We need PATRIOTS

Not Nazis and domestic terrorists pretending to be patriots

Actual patriots

reply

valkyrie-ziege.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤣 All ya'all done got took
& you deserve it.
Suckers!
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-how-afford-those-internet-reacts-blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-reportedly-losing-2-3-la-mansions-wildfires

reply

billjondoyle.bsky.social•3 days ago

except your fourth estate has turned out to be a fifth column

reply

whosays1977.bsky.social•3 days ago

Only if it's outside the corrupt circle jerk btw corporate-owned media that takes advertising money from corporate owner-donors who bribe elected officials in both parties while gaslighting people to believe everything's red v blue instead of the truth - the elitist predatory class v everyone else.

reply

mrmicawber.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bang on.

Pretend that people are divided along ideological lines; stoke those differences; make sure they blame each other for all their problems, and they never look up to see the overseer’s whip hand.

reply

whosays1977.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yep, it's sad that it took me as long as it did to see it, but better late than never.

It starts by recognizing we're all forced on this planet due to other people's decisions into a socio-economic system we never agreed to beforehand. The system's fucked up/should be recreated to benefit everyone.

reply

mrmicawber.bsky.social•3 days ago

The other thing is that we were made to fear and despise communism and appreciate the economic benefits of the capitalist system - imagine how surprised we were to find that unregulated capitalism, over time, becomes less and less distinguishable from the cruellest tyranny.

reply

mrmicawber.bsky.social•3 days ago

Capitalism leans naturally towards fascism without the restraining hand of regulators - fascism and monopoly, hand in hand.

reply

whosays1977.bsky.social•2 days ago

We now live in the United Corporations of America.

reply

mrmicawber.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Man (sic) is born free but lives everywhere in chains.”
Rousseau said we signed up for this just by being born.

reply

whosays1977.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fuck that bullshit!
✌🏻

reply

grbliss.bsky.social•3 days ago

To much, too fast, too little done to protect what is suppose to help protect us. Time to get MOVING.

reply

merri24.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here’s the problem:

reply

mrmicawber.bsky.social•3 days ago

If only the fourth estate wasn’t owned and operated by the same people who embrace fascism in the US!

reply

wendy76.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, I guess the press is no longer free, though. Associated Press is banned from the White House over using the correct term for the Gulf of Mexico, and all the other news outlets just roll over. Scary stuff. 😬

reply

thom-kingsfan11.bsky.social•3 days ago

The press was granted immense protections for the specific purpose of reporting the truth.

reply

doa70.bsky.social•2 days ago

And the right-wing turned that on its head by using that protection to report lies.

reply

neodem.bsky.social•3 days ago

That starts with boycotting white house coverage until the AP is let back in the room

reply

olliebear360.bsky.social•2 days ago

I would like to see an all out war against the propaganda machines on the right. Let's call them out for their part in getting these fools elected. They are predators promoting predators being sponsored by billionaire predators. Lets remind the cult who's been serving them the Kool-aid

reply

shaunwong.bsky.social•3 days ago

If we can preserve #FreedomOfThePress even in exile half the battle is won… the #Truth the unvarnished reality truth promulgating to the people is the bedrock of our freedoms and #democracy it is how we rebuild from this when the ashes clear. We must remain star eyed like #Navalny no matter what

reply

chrislovespugs.bsky.social•2 days ago

As Grace Tame said:

FUCK MURDOCH

reply

jasdoutho.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and Zaslav.

reply

bluecardi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Much of journalism has crashed and burned in the past 60, yes, 60, years. It's become too much about getting the scoop, not getting the facts right, nor getting at the real truth. 1/

reply

bluecardi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Journalists and reporters need to up their game to hold up a mirror to the politicians, crooks, and acts of war and share their analysis and perspective with more integrity. Too much scandal-mongering and tempests in a teapot, and avoiding the real news that affects peoples' lives. END/

reply

jenniewonders.bsky.social•3 days ago

Keeping in mind legacy media isn’t a news program, it’s an entertainment program. And they aren’t journalist, they’re pundits. Meaning they aren’t held to journalistic standards. (The nfl is also registered entertainment and not sports)

reply

wiese2154.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good luck. America is a nation full of cowards. Right/Left whatever. We are F'd.

reply

jaywilliams.pro•3 days ago

sadly the billionaires that own the news think differently

reply

doa70.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nearly all the national outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires. Add the major social media outlets, where a dismaying number of people get their “news”, and the collapse of our democracy becomes self-explanatory.

The question we have to ask now is, “how do we get it back?”

reply

sparkesw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Many have already sold their souls.

reply

nutballcop.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Post Office is in the Constitution too.

reply

ronald-w.bsky.social•2 days ago

And yet the vast majority of «the press» have kissed the ring ….

reply

worldismyoyster.bsky.social•2 days ago

Horses mouth...

reply

theanimallobbyist.bsky.social•2 days ago

The American press is dead . Owned by billionaires using it to spread their misinformation. We once had #yellowjournalism and now we have #orangejournalism

reply