curious how the "solution" for a highly consolidated right wing billionaire owned mainstream press is always to shift policy ever rightward - ThreadSky

karlbode.com • 150 days ago

curious how the "solution" for a highly consolidated right wing billionaire owned mainstream press is always to shift policy ever rightward

Reposted from Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

"Harris must do more to signal that she’ll govern from the political center." FFS, she has embraced and been embraced by the Cheneys but never enough for mansplaining Martin of right-wing Springer's Politico.
Here’s What Harris Must Do to Seal the Deal
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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mayorslayerr.bsky.social•150 days ago

probably because young liberals suck at voting

jeansanpach.bsky.social•150 days ago

Nope, Harris needs to stay left, with liberal policies. Be open about it.

karlbode.com•150 days ago

and god fucking forbid if you actually install a real progressive like Lina Khan or Gigi Sohn at a key government regulatory agency, you'll just never hear the end of it

karlbode.com•150 days ago

Politico is owned by Mathias Döpfner, who has openly applauded Trump and generally has the same right wing politics as most of these brunchlords, but he likes to dress them up as "contrarian nonpartisanship" so that journalists stop asking pesky questions

wheredafukarwi.bsky.social•150 days ago

Didn't Politico recently change hands?

karlbode.com•150 days ago

yeah this guy was technically put in charge in 2022

karlbode.com•150 days ago

it's funny how when a billionaire is clearly predominantly right wing that the press, as they did with musk, suddenly finds their politics some kind of indecipherable mystery

karlbode.com•150 days ago

major outlets and mainstream reporters did the same thing with Musk, until he became such a nazi caricature that the facade was simply no longer maintainable

2xaught7.bsky.social•150 days ago

Ah, Kara. You and I have shared our thoughts on that one hahaha

karlbode.com•150 days ago

don't get me started

athenae.bsky.social•150 days ago

It's so funny how their contrarian plans to reinvent journalism are always "suck off the same five Nazi-curious dudes who already have access to the NYT editorial page."

vidiot.bsky.social•150 days ago

Holy shit how can they put those two sentences in such close proximity?

karlbode.com•150 days ago

because you don't want to offend right wing readership, sources, event sponsorship, or ownership by having a too pointed relationship with the truth: namely that most billionaires and media owners are right wing, and that right wing policies are increasingly radical and broadly unpopular

vidiot.bsky.social•150 days ago

Am amazed, despite my boundless cynicism and despair over the state of "elite" journalism, that an editor let them do that so blatantly.

witneyseibold.bsky.social•150 days ago

It's so galling that right-wing fascists are buying media. "The center-right newspapers are revealing right-wing evil. We won't change our evil, but we will cry that the papers are biased and then buy them and make them worse and more fascist. Yeah, that'll make the world better."

karlbode.com•150 days ago

well look man, tax cuts and mindless deregulation are what's important here

lorak.bsky.social•150 days ago

remember when he texted musk to encourage him to buy out twitter? offered to help run it basically?

karlbode.com•150 days ago

I had actually forgotten that

I find the whole "I'm right wing but pretending to be nonpartisan and entirely objective" extra insulting after the last decade. They genuinely seem to presume everybody is profoundly stupid.

jhfhockey.bsky.social•150 days ago

So when we say, "This sounded better in the original German" we're more correct than we guessed...

karlbode.com•150 days ago

I mean this guy at least agrees that climate change is real and isn't a pure nazi, but it's not subtle that his politics broadly involve defanging corporate oversight and doling out a bunch of massive tax cuts

ellz.bsky.social•150 days ago

I smelled it was a red hat long ago

the-silver-lining.bsky.social•150 days ago

Yup, let's all hope that (providing all goes well), Harris doesn't bend under pressure from $$ donors, and Lina Khan ends up staying on.

karlbode.com•150 days ago

yeah I wrote about that this week. If she's kept, and who she's replaced with, will be informative. Harris isn't signaling either way; historically dems, republicans, and libertarians all LOVE fairly feckless careerist and decorative folks in these roles:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/07/if-harris-wins-whether-she-keeps-lina-khan-will-be-extremely-telling/

jamtone.bsky.social•150 days ago

Kinda like that guy in the UK who promised media regulation if he got elected PM. What was his name... Jeremy something. Corbyn? Nice bloke. Wonder what happened to him...

patriciaanne.bsky.social•150 days ago

I'm actually surprised that they didn't type out that Harris needs to wear a skirt or dress...

Seriously to be center..

Why bother when the " opponent" candidate acts batsgeit crazy..

* Misspelled batsheit via auto correct

devin-eleven.bsky.social•150 days ago

Reminds me of Saule Omarova. They accused her of being a communist, meanwhile Trump has a personal line to the ex-kgb dictator of Russia.

ginobelgeri.bsky.social•149 days ago

When do we get to stop giving two corroded fucks what the nazis at Politico think about any goddamned thing?

texaskrusty.bsky.social•150 days ago

Because Republicans are the real and default Americans.

The press learned this for certain 1984 and they will stick with that story.

iscored.info•150 days ago

This tactic does not fucking work. Watering down your own ideology to meaningless incoherent centrist drivel wins you ZERO Trump supporters. All it does is suppress your own turnout, create angry rifts within your own base, and reduce enthusiasm and party activism.

nathanl75.bsky.social•150 days ago

I’ve been ignoring most media like that since the leadup to the Iraq war and no regrets.

karlbode.com•150 days ago

The Iraq war news coverage is what initially and permanently broke my brain

nathanl75.bsky.social•149 days ago

It definitely broke my trust in legacy media Ed boards. It’s wild how many hucksters involved in that hustle failed upward too.

It does make me chuckle when max boot whines about people still giving him crap on that one. They all deserve it.

karlbode.com•149 days ago

well at least they were patriotic about it

nathanl75.bsky.social•149 days ago

I think max at least apologized. I’m not sure if axis of evil guy over at the Atlantic ever did that.

karlbode.com•149 days ago

he's been repeatedly terrible on other things since, so it's not like he learned much from the experience

carljanderson.bsky.social•150 days ago

The center has continually moved right my entire adult life and I'm 51.

It's worked, so why stop?

jacksprat39.bsky.social•150 days ago

Político eats shit.

bernardoverda.bsky.social•150 days ago

📌

sudhof.me•150 days ago

It's the new beat of "backwards and in high heels".

zigzaggin.bsky.social•150 days ago

Where are all the articles demanding that Trump govern from the center? Or from any consistent political position whatsoever that isn't rooted in his own interest and his alone?

karlbode.com•150 days ago

they don't exist because media brunchlords like his deregulation and tax cuts

grahamshevlin.bsky.social•150 days ago

This is the usual "reach across the aisle" bullshit that mediocre journalists love to write come election time.
Those days are gone for ever, over a long time ago, as Fagen and Becker wrote.

karlbode.com•150 days ago

well and the thing is she's already endlessly done that. Democrats are pretty much ALWAYS doing that, to a fault, often in place of advocating for true, progressive, broadly popular policy.

grahamshevlin.bsky.social•150 days ago

If the Democrats win all three representative streams, I want to see them adopt the GOP attitude. "Sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and listen. This is how it's going to be".

karlbode.com•150 days ago

will you settle for endless unnecessary pandering to corporate and right wing interests?

grahamshevlin.bsky.social•150 days ago

I fear it, and I do not want to see it.

iscored.info•150 days ago

I’d love that too, but it’s never gonna fuckin happen. Obama pissing away his supermajority wasn’t a fluke. It’s what they’ll always do.

maggiekat.bsky.social•150 days ago

karlbode.com•150 days ago

it's because the GOP has skewed journalism coverage and worked the refs for 50 straight years under the lie that U.S. journalism somehow had a "liberal bias" and endlessly needs the public more broadly exposed to unpopular conservative policy opinion

coopgrafik.bsky.social•150 days ago

She’s telling us she wants to frack the US and bomb Gaza. Not sure what more they expect.

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