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All the print media is bought by American state propaganda, and all the social media is manipulated by hostile foreign state propaganda.
Gonna have to start doing shit ourselves, like reporting.
It’s access journalism. Trump is just more overt about it, but each admin does it. Biden staffers refused to field questions around his acuity, Trump tried to kick out the AP from the White House Press Pool for running actual news instead of fellating him, Obama’s admin refused to honestly talk about the growing drone war, the Bush jr team chided any ‘where WMD’ reporters, Clinton…
If you say mean things or are critical of your subject, they tend to remember that and don’t volunteer information to your outlet - costing your boss exclusives and headlines, and thus ad revenue. I’m pretty sure ~~Ted~~ Rafael Cruz is never going to sit down for a 1:1 with Tucker Carlson again after he got the steel chair. White supremacist shitbag as Carlson may be, he actually did a journalism, didn’t let Cruz lie, and challenged him on the topic, and Cruz was shown to be lacking.
There is no actual journalism to be found among the main headlines, just repackaged press releases and barebones reporting devoid of context that might actually inform readers. Find an investigative reporter that deals with a topic/region you care about and follow their SubStack, or wade into Telegram and filter out the propaganda as you are able.
I remember watching a 60 Minutes episode from the mid-2000s about government corruption and embezzlement of oil wealth by the ruling family of Equatorial Guinea, and how American oil companies facilitated this corruption. They interviewed a representative of an American oil industry group and confronted him about whether it was ethical to keep doing business with a dictator knowing that the billions in oil money was going straight into the pocket of a corrupt autocrat and his family to fund lavish spending sprees in Paris and mansions in America while the people of Equatorial Guinea starved in some of the poorest and worst living standards in the world. Of course, the industry rep claimed that it was ethical, and the reporters got kicked out of Equatorial Guinea and harassed by local security forces.
But that's the kind of fearless reporting that just doesn't get done any more. It's cheaper to just have people in the newsroom write clickbait articles about what local political figures are yapping about on Bluesky than to send people to create that sort of high-quality journalism. And there's no chance that any oil industry representative would ever agree to that sort of interview now. At most, they would just have their PR division write a two-paragraph statement.
It goes back even further. Look at how much the media worked to cover up FDR's polio.
Wild that Fox News can practically say the hard R on Biden but every god-damn news channel is tippy toeing on Trump and sane-washing his bullshit
Uh, Retard?
I'm not that familiar with the usa blacklist of words.
Yeah, the short of it is that it used to be used clinically to describe developmental disorders but fell out of use around the mid-90s because, like so many other words, it was used maliciously to the point where it lost its original meaning and context.
If you were a 90s kid, retard and gay were as close as you could get to actually swearing without getting in trouble and basically carried the same cultural weight as outright slurs. The stigma around being gay was so bad that in the 2000s they made up a sexuality to describe men who were straight but liked to shower and dress in nice clothing so that they wouldn't lose their jobs. And the stigma around mental needs little explanation, I think. It wasn't that long ago that they were electrocuting people and cutting out parts of their brains for being sad or having a stutter.
i remember going on a school trip to san francisco in the 90s. one of my classmates kept saying "that's so gay" about everything she didn't like. we only let her go two shops (while gently pointing out the SF-specific merchandise) before i had to ask her "you know where we are, right?" in her credit, i never heard her speak that way after that incident so
Fun fact, electroconvulsive therapy is still available for depression! It's one of the things I tried.
Yeah we don't call it that here in the states. I've heard 'the r word' but never 'hard r'. We reserve that terminology for the OTHER hard R.
Republican?
It's the main offensive word for black people. In general use it ends in an "a" sound, and can be positive neutral, or negative. In racist use it ends in the "hard R" and is always negative. Since you are not from the US, I would say you probably shouldn't say it at all, just like I did not in this post.
A big part of it is he's doing what Israel wants...
Israel kept bombing past the ceasefire start, but look at MSM and everyone is saying Iran violated the ceasefire when they retaliated for Israel not even stopping for it.
It's decades past time to recognize that Israel's government has bought off the majority of both of our parties along with our media.
We can't just keep ignoring it or screaming "both sides" when people point it out
It's not gonna fix itself, and we can't fix it till we admit it's a problem
I have a slightly different take.
He is doing what Russia wants which actually means get Israel to stop bombing Iran because Iran is an important asset to Putin. In the mean time he can look good for ending the conflict. At least thats what daddy Putin told him.
Iran was informed about the US attack. They made sure there were no casualties and the US promptly proclaimed the nuclear treat was now gone. Then Iran did a symbolic counter attack because all people (including Iran citizens) expected a counter attack.
The message seems to be directed at Israel “we solved the problem, now you can stop bombing”
Except Trump is learning the hard way that Israel is just using him for the fool he is and is in no way going to stop their purge. Basically calling the bluff because Netanyahu stopped caring about how they are perceived a while ago.
Israel played there cards very well realising that Russia is in to much of a difficult position with Ukraine to start a war with them to defend Iran.
I have zero proof of above hypothesis but its what emerges in my autistic head if i do go over all the details and in context it just makes a lot of sense to me.
There is a word for this framing of reality and its hypernormalization.
I appreciate both your take and the inclusion of "zero proof" and "hypothesis". It tastes better with those grains of salt.
Netanyahu stopped caring about how they are perceived a while ago.
I don't think he ever did. This guy was burning effigies of Rabin in 1995 because he didn't want Palestinians to have rights.
If you call that out, you'll be shouted down for being antisemitic.
Because Trump is the abusive ex that you don't want to piss off because he has thousands of guns and has a hair-trigger temper.
"there's a reason" and then OP posts neolib drivel from one of the most obnoxious, most entrenched asshole propagandists from the deep political insiders list
maybe OP doesn't understand who George Conway is or something
Fair. I post things that I believe in.
And sometimes it's this.
https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
@everybody @here this is the guy who keeps falling for it, let's get em
In all fairness to OP, who I have no idea about, many of these awful people, including Conway, rebrand and change their image like others would change clothes.
News is horrible, but social media still stinks
He's the husband to Kelly Ann Conway, one of the worst women on earth and mother of the alternative facts line.
someday everyone will have always been against this
What colors do I need to change my profile pic to to show that I always supported [the winning side]?
The Russian flag
Never let the forget.
Wolf Blitzer used to work for AIPAC, it’s honestly not surprising for him personally.
Since the news media are all multinational corporations owned by billionaires war profiteers, their general stance isn’t all that surprising either.
Has Conway just not been paying attention? This isn’t a bug, it’s the feature.
For a second I thought he was going to bust out the P word.
Tap for vulgar profanity
Poopyhead
Good sir I have children who are on the internet please refrain
Most American journalists and media outlets DO call Trump a stupid idiot, and they have been for the past decade.
You have to be living in an alternate reality to think Trump is liked by the establishment media. This is only true for Fox and a handful of other right wing media outlets.
Most American journalists and media outlets DO call Trump a stupid idiot, and they have been for the past decade.
Which popular media outlets are actively doing that? Because all I see is sane-washing his bullshit.
All of them? Are you seriously trying to tell me that the NYT or MSNBC US politics page are in any pro Trump? These outlets stopped being neutral and both siding things since the 2016 election.
I'm telling you they sane wash his bullshit.
Where every Democrat president has to tiptoe and be perfect.
I caught a few minutes of MSNBC's coverage of Trump's military parade. They sounded like they had guns to their heads, trying to pretend like it was fun and normal.