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When 5 or 6 billionaires who are benefitting from this administration control 90% of the media, this is what you get.
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I keep wondering, where did our journalism schools go wrong in the '80s and '90s and why have they not recovered.
My only conclusion is - Koch Brother level sabotage.
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I remember 1979 when ABC created a daily news show just to cover hostages in Iran. The story of a treasonous, insane president destroying our country is at least 100 times bigger than that one, but it is largely ignored.
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It seems that no matter how often we say this they don’t seem to get the message.
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So does that same sentiment apply to NPR?
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This is not a surprise - billionaires now own all major media outlets.
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Not the journalists. The oligarch owners of the MSM.
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Some @msnbc.com peeps are beyond reproach
And there's that one tip top lady on Fox...
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I would kill for deep throat but would settle for a scratchy one.
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This statement, with the exception of a few, is spot on! So worried about money,that you sold your soul to the orange devil! Now he'll censor you right out of business! Welcome to north korea!
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Agreed
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As has every GOP member of Congress who has abdicated their job to the POTUS and have refused to hold him accountable for anything
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Fucking Americon Media...
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It’s the large media conglomerates not the individual reporters you should be mad at. Plenty of journalists have covered every iota of this. The problem is nearly everyone over the age of 60 gets their news from their only one source
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Shame on the press. The vast majority of it anyway.
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What did we expect when the people are clamoring for "free" content?
Small outlets weren't going to survive so they sold to the multi-nationals and conglomerates. Now C-suite execs in multi-billion dollar companies comprise the majority of the 4th estate.
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100%!! If the press was doing it's job and wasn't running around like a bunch of puppies, this could have been stopped A LONG TIME AGO
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Like many beliefs about American exceptionalism, trump has exposed the fourth estate as the mythology its been for the last few decades.
When push comes to shove, the legislative and judicial branches have failed. The media has refused to step into the breech.
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Not all of them! Watch Jen, Rachel and Lawrence on MSNow (MSNBC) and all the nightly shows
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Absolutely. I'm a Brit, I remember Watergate.
Every reporter for every media operation should watch the movie "All The President's Men" to relearn what they are supposed to do.
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10000000000% agree.
The press has been absofuckinglutely spineless.
Why?!
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Fact: Legacy media is owned by billionaires and zionists, staffed by "former" CIA types, and has never, ever been trustworthy.
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There is a reason the Sinclair family purchased a significant portion of all major markets News stations. Control the information and control the masses.
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There’s some racism woven into the “both sides” propaganda. Much like systemic racism in health care, there’s an “individual” element to it that can’t be eliminated with curriculum….
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I don't blame the journalists. I blame the douchebag billionaires (who increasingly concentrated ownership of these news outlets) trying to curry favor with the grifter regime.
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I call it "If it's owned by a Billionaire...." They are greedy like the rest and want those sweet extra yachts. They own more than just "news" so they have to keep things in a positive light or the sheeple might uprise...
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Watergate didn’t unravel on its own; it took relentless reporting to expose the truth. When today’s press ignores, normalizes, or amplifies lies without scrutiny, it betrays its role as a watchdog and undermines the very foundations of democracy it’s meant to protect.
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I think we all expected more of Bob Woodward. Epic failure at what be our most pivoted moment in history.
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Absolutely
And right now Kristen Welker Because she is failing miserably In her undeserved critical role
Needs to go
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Because their viewers allow it. It’s way past time people STOP supporting legacy with their viewership.
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I cannot think of a post I’ve agreed with more. Ever.
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There are a few journalists of
Journalism Integrity Accuracy Professionalism
out there. Our job is to appreciate them, spread their job and protect them.
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The mainstream media has been successful in everything they've been bought out to do. Y'all keep blaming the slaves for slavery.
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Nixon should have gone to prison for obstruction. Ford should have gone to prison for obstruction. Reagan and Bush 41 should have gone to prison for Iran-contra. Bush 43 should have gone to prison for ordering torture. Trump should have gone to prison for all KINDS of shit. Picking up on a pattern?
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Trump started stacking the press long ago. Look at the Barbara Walter’s interview. He took a page out of Hitler’s book by vilification of the free press.
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This is because the majority of the media is corporate owned and apparently heavily censored.
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This is what happens when republicans control the legacy media outlets.
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TRUTH!!! All the missed opportunities to report the actual ongoing truth, and point out the destruction caused by this orange regime. Instead, you pander to the threats, the bullying and the lies. It's not even enough anymore to say, do better msm. Missed opportunities are gone, you've failed.
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True. They knowingly normalized a serial liar and sleazy conman for ten years. And their constant twisting of facts to justify their bothsidesism BS was/is journalistic malpractice imho. NYT, WP and so many others complicit in this era of shiny object reporting. Remember Moonves' quote..pathetic
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That whole Democracy dies in the dark, schtick didn’t age well..
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They didn't "fail" - they "betrayed" the country for profit. Corporate media worked feverishly to elect Trump.
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I believe the biggest problem in the US is that citizens continue to support the billionaires. Stop giving them your money to control you, instead control them. Don’t use Amazon nor shop at Walmart or any billionaire owned chain. Money talks as billionaires have shown by manipulating the press
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I DO NOT disagree, but I believe WE NEED SUPPORT AND POSITIVITY. WTF is "right" about this country? The Majority of the people in this country are NOT maga. Do you have a solution to this shit?
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That's absolutely true.
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Hey press, thanks for nothing!
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And the plutocrats who own our press.
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I am wondering if the press knows this and doesn’t care or if they actually think they are doing an amazing job and the stupid public just doesn’t realize it….
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Cowards.
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Now would be a great time for moderate or liberal entrepreneur to start a news business...folks like Meidas touch are killing it because people are hungry for the truth. We want to see what is really going on, not the polished turds we are receiving from the conservative news outlets.
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Anyone — from the janitors to the copy editors — who still works for the NYT, WAPO, LAT, WSJ, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR… are complicit fascist shitbags.
Without exception. There are no excuses.
Shun them. Shame them.
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Ah... what about the American voters?
American voters elected a RAPIST American voters elected a RAPIST with 34 criminal convictions for cheating 2016 election American voters elected a RAPIST charged with attempting to cheat 2020 election
Shame on American voters Shame on American non-voters
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Canadian media too however, most of our papers are owned by Republicans. Harper, chair of the IDU, changed the law when he was PM.
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Why would we ever trust corporate media to do anything other than advance their corporate agendas?
They're all paid to lie on behalf of their owners. Same as it ever was.
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Once again, the media’s treatment of Trump and Republicans is not a failure. It’s a success. Do Democrats ever have any idea what’s going on around them? bsky.app/profile/osca...
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100% correct.
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Truth be told! Unfortunately the press surely have failed America covering irrelevant topics, gaslighting about👿trump, and bypassing facts (not questioning Lies) of what Americans should be focused on!🤬
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Absolutely. 💯. They are a revolting disgrace.
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Well, that's one way of looking it. Let's now turn to Scott Jennings to see if he agrees." 😏
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True that, but look at who owns the majority of media outlets/sources! It is the wealthy who controls the message/news & many journalists who criticize Trump tends to either be stifled or fired!
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Oligarchy owned and controlled and 97% of press and media in this country rolls up into six corporate consolidated entities.
And can threaten another part of biz empire real easily that way.
And Blackrock and Vamguard own sizable chunks of all six.
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A Trillion X This . The abysmal negligence & cowardice of messrs Tapper Blitzer Cooper Tur Muir Stephanopoulos et al have buried us in this autocratic chaotic madness . For shame on them all .
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Absolutely. The Press is complicit. If Nixon did half of what the Convicted Felon did in his first term he would have been in prison not reelected to the Presidency the way it should have been. The times sure have changed.
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For the purpose of their own entertainment, the smug self-satisfied press created Donald Trump whole cloth as a viable candidate in 2016. It seems no one remembers Kasiche, saying "I'm gonna scatter the name 'Trump' throughout my remarks tonight so I can get some air time". The press is culpable.
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Could not agree more.
I wish the media watchdogs would hold their reporter friends accountable.
None of this shit happened without Leonard Leo and legacy MSM is still covering for him.
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@sulliview.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.socialA decade of failing to persuade the New York Times to pay attention to Leonard Leo
By Tom Carter
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Had the Washington Post been owned by a jumped up billionaire who sold out to a dictator rather than a decent woman running a family business, you would never have heard the names Woodward and Bernstein.
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It also reflects on the values of democratic countries in the west!! Now it is more important to hold down the job. Than to speak truth to power!!
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I won't deny that the media has failed us.
However, if Trump committed a Watergate and it was reported on like Watergate, would the average Trump supporter even care?
To some degree, the media is a reflection of the population.
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THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
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Corporate media normalizes Trump, the rapist/crook/bigot/con man, who has led a coup of our government. The Media NORMALIZED a coup! Before law school, I got a journalism degree from the Univ of Missouri. But now I am ashamed of the profession of journalism. The Fourth Branch of government failed us
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ANNANDALE, Virginia — On Aug. 10, a community leaders’ meeting was hosted by the Asian Community Service Center in Northern Virginia. The event brought
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They are all about themselves. They are nothing but a fashion show on TV.
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They’ve seen Trump, from day 1, as an easy news story. He’s giving them news every single day. Their job is now easy. Every story, every news show could start with what the crazy motherfucker did or said today. They forgot why they are here. It’s was daily clicks and eyeballs and for sure money
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Grow a spine, Press.
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It isn't news, it's propaganda 🙄 😒
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Much rather sort through the chaos of social media for info. Legacy media sanewashing, distraction focused, giving cover to the most corrupt administration in modern history. They're Mobbed up, just like the lawyers Trump strongarmed into fealty. Nothing but local news since the election for me.
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This sounds crazy, but hear me out. Ted Turner began the cable news nightmare with CNN and since then, the news outlets HAD to compete with local stations AND a cable conglomerate. This, with the social changes, allowed news to compete with ENTERTAINMENT! News became opinion AND facts be damned!
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This… This right here…. Will LIVE in INFAMY, for all time. Their utter betrayal of journalistic integrity will be recorded for all to see !!!
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It baffles me how this clown can claim groceries are cheaper and no one bothers to ask—where the fuck?
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Yup
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If that's what you believe, then Trump has achieved his goal of discrediting the legacy media. The fact is that he packs press conferences with sycophants and threatens media that don't align. Most legacy media outside of the likes of FOXNews are still very much doing their job.
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“You had one job….”
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This is what has been happening as billionaires buy our news stations and press- Sinclair Broadcasting, Bezos, etc…
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Because the modern media is corrupted by money and not integrity
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This is 100% true. The press could have buried Trump a thousand times over if it cared to.
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Our press is corporate owned. Where do their interests lie? In their own damn pocketbook. Unfortunately many journalists went along to keep their jobs. Now there's no going back. If a united front had been taken.. but there's the problem. We never take our power
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Who started the distrust with the press? Who called it fake news? This began 10 years ago by the felon🤡. He bullied them and twisted the stories on Fox. Now he wants to SUE them when they try to report the facts or have them fired. Thank goodness we still have some brave outlets and platforms left.
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Not to mention both houses of congress, no better than tits on a bull.
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For Sale: The Truth
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Absolutely correct
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They live in the same country we live in and see the same shit we see and for some reason they’re not disturbed by any of it.
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I’ve come to conclusion that most of them see America the same way Trump does and actually agrees with what he’s doing.
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I blame corporate owned media and the idiots demanding what passes for news in the US. There needs to be a publicly funded independent source of info or people need to take personal responsibility. If there's no profit in reporting facts there's no incentive to do it. Capitalism is the problem.
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The way i see is that the "press" is no longer where one should get their news and detach from it. There is enough good independent media now although it pisses me off they all want "subscriptions" and no student/senior discount etc.
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I find it interesting that even media figures like Joy Reid and Jim Acosta haven't spoken out on the rot infecting their former employers.
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The press has failed us. You are an embarrassment to a free people.
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It's gotten to the point where yesterday I cancelled my NYT subscription. There's not enough real reporting on the evil of Trump. There will be a real resistance, but how we will fund it and maintain it, even in secret, is a concern.
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So very true.
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Watchdog journalism is truly dead in the MSM and the sole reason for the Fourth Estate’s demise is job security, when you’re beholden to a conglomerate to feed you and your family, and keep a roof over your head. The only reporters who are true journalists left are the independent media.
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We have the means to be our own journalists in this day and age with the smartphone. Tiktok taught me that. Go to townhall meetings and record! Ask the hard questions these spineless journalists are afraid to! I'm going to
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Billionaires control all media and messaging. But journalists did get lazy. Talking heads, no on-location reporting
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CC @nytimes.com @cnn.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @politico.com
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That's what happens when all the news media owners are Donald Trump Donors and indebted to his tax breaks. Money buys souls and lies.
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They are useless. And keep wondering why their audience is shrinking.
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And they continue to normalize everything the administration does. Meanwhile millions of Americans are still knitting!
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@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cbsnews.com #ABC etc., all of them. Fox News doesn’t count because they’re just a straight up propaganda machine.
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Yes, let's hold the press to a higher standard than Congress and the president.
see the problem here?
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Sadly, I agree.
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I've seen plenty of press coverage that should have prevented people from voting for this but they did anyway.
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Media is mainly owned by ~ 5 companies. Way past time to break it up.
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We are in an all-hands-on-deck, 5-alarm dictatorship, and no one is coming to rescue us.
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True, the failure on their (American Press) part has brought strength to Independent Media also. We have rising stars that may not have shined as bright in the previous landscape. ✨️
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Their sacred duty is the same duty as everyone else in a failed capitalist state: accumulate wealth at any cost.
America didn't succumb to fascism, it was crushed under the weight of its own greed.
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Yes That’s why I moved on to Zeteo and a journalist with no skeletons in his closet to be blackmailed by the powerful and stay independent Mehdi Hasan
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Ditto UK press ...
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Amen, I am sick of softball questions and not pushing back at the lies!
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I'd say the Supremes run a close second...
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The US must improve separation of news funding mechanisms from editorial oversight.
I shamelessly asked Chat GPT for some context. In domestic debates, the US should show some humility and look to other countries for what works.
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Capitalism is the root of all evil.
Journalism started going downhill when the TV networks decided their news organizations should be making profits.
Previously they were run at a loss for the benefit of viewers.
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Amen and shows it's an oligarchy now
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Generalizations are never accurate.
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The Reagan deregulation years have had a long reach.
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They really have haven’t they!
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Amen. Absolute disgrace.
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The Bought Estate
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I’m not sure I agree with this statement. I think our current situation is more about electing an utter criminal into the White House, who is supported by equally corrupt sycophants in his Cabinet, Congress and the SC. The frailties of our political system at the federal level have been exposed.
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When your government fires folks for criticism, attacks the press for criticism or telling the truth, you are living in a dictatorship.
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Lies should be illegal by news media, teachers, civil servants like the president and his administration, and congressional representatives.
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With alt for anyone who needs it:
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The press needs to do a better Job of explaining what is happening. I know it takes an education as so many do not know anything about our Constitution and our government. The Federal Reserve System isn’t taught. They stop bank runs which were common prior to Fed Res System.
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I hear you but I’d add that it’s more the corporate capture and monopolization of the media than the individual journalists.
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I still watch NBC Nightly News, but it is garbage.
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Shame?!?
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I am absolutely disappointed in our media here in America . They picked on Biden who was doing a fabulous job and they normalize an insane wanna be dictator and his regime.
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Not shame on the journalists. Shame on their oligarch owners. Make sure you don't get this twisted: we are at war with the ultra-wealthy, no one else. Even the GOP is simply a proxy front for the ultra-rich.
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💯 agree. wtf happened to journalists. Thank god for the Midas Touch and other independent journalists! 🙌🏼✊🏼
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The fourth estate is dead.
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Just like Britain
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What will Trumpdo to distract from his name in the Trumpedo Files? Outflank populists. See “Outflanking Populism - a Manifesto to Inspire Trust, Create Hope, and Demand Immediate Positive Change” by George Evans. UK-centric but the message applies everywhere. On Amazon. tinyurl.com/ymmnxdb5
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Which is why we need to break up press conglomerates. Make it so media outlets are independently owned.
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The press encourage this for ratings and their billionaire owners. Unfortunately I won't be around at the point history analyses and condemns the culpable. Murdoch created this beast; spineless craven lickspittles like McConnell, Graham etc together with Scotus stitched democracy up.
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Tbh this is analogous to blaming the crime on a dead guy. Nobody buys newspapers anymore. Nobody pays for journalism. The revenue streams that used to pay for investigative journalism now go directly into Zuck's pockets because everyone wants everything to be free.
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they are just fascist- owned. like the Supreme Court.
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Hear, hear!
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Agree wholeheartedly.
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They are complicit...and they will regret it!
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Paging @wsj.com @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @nytimeses.nytimes.com
Your greed for money and power and the fear of losing it is a disgrace too. People live without so much and you're contributing to the fall of democracy and loss of human life as a result.
Proud? Is enough never enough?
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So true. Very upsetting. The PRESS has a job. It is to speak to truth. When Corporate Media caves in to that Monster in the WH, the PRESS loses its meaning.....
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I was in J-school for a time in the 70's and had enough classes to know what journalism is supposed to be.
This ain't it.
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Speaking of Watergate, Doug Mills won the Pulitzer-Prize for debunked deepfake photos. Share the truth the press won't cover: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Mother of Scams. Butler, July 13 2024 - YouTube
All my videos debunking how Trump faked being shot in order to get elected.
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well it started with the dissolution of the Fairness Doctrine...and then came 24/7 news which needs "entertainment news" to make a profit...and there you go
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They've squandered all credibility in an effort to secure clicks & $$$. Zero possibility for a comeback from this failure of integrity. We won't forget.
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I don’t disagree, but suspect leadership of media more so than journalists themselves.
What field reporters need to do is band together and maybe ask the exact same question whenever vague or non-answer is provided to another’s’ question… or collective walk out and draw attention to the pointless.
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They are an extension of oligarchs these days. That’s the problem.
Maybe we should make independent journalism, like Democracy Now, the mainstream.
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Horribly, I think this is journalists passing the "one dollar today or five tomorrow" childhood cognitive test.
If they did their actual job, they'd get a moderate bonanza of clicks and eyeballs.
If they come in every day, let Trump be the news, constantly, at a low level, they get rich forever.
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ABC NBC CBS FOX are propagandists not journalists. First Amendment was “first” for a reason.
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They are more than a disgrace; They are purposeful traitors.
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well, not sure it's the journalists so much as the owners. you have to have somewhere to write the truth and then consider the propaganda machines of the WA PO and LA Times.
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Yes I don’t get it. What magical spell does dump have on them? So many people bow to him and tell him what he wants to hear, not the truth. The media is doing the same thing and letting him get away with his lies.
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Absofeckinglutely spot on!!!’
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He didn’t win. He wasn’t shot. He’s in the Epstein files.
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Yep 👍🏻 And largely b/c it has become a Corporate profession. It is no longer Free Press, it’s controlled by corporate interests and no longer maintains integrity of factual reporting
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Yep. I said it earlier & I’ll say it again. History will show that our media was the biggest failure-of-the-moment in the rise of fascism.
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I’m polar opposite of religious but to this I have to scream AMEN!!!!!
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you sound like drumpf
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As a retired journalist I totally agree. I've been cringing for the past 10 years. Sometimes it's not worth keeping a job.
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Nothing is more important to a democracy than a well informed electorate. The reason we don't have that anymore isn't just ignorance, it is misinformation, and deliberate disinformation that has wormed its way into the brains of a large part of the country. Blame Trump, blame MAGA, and blame media.
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Canadians are held hostage by the same press - most major newspapers in this country are American owned....Chatham Asset Management. I'm sure you're familiar with who they are and what they own. And that their papers are entirely crap.
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Sounds very much like it is in the UK
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It's not just the journalists. What about religious leaders? Pols? There seems to be a shortage of courage.
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They also are gonna get people hurt if they keep this mess up!
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I really hope kids and anyone who's thinking about being a journalist takes this as a reason to become the most honest and honorable journalists this country has ever seen so this hellscape doesn't happen again.
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Thank you to the @meidastouch.com They tell the truth
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And if all that was not enough - there would be Gaza & the West Bank.....and the US media failing to cover it.
