Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social

4 days ago

This post singlehandedly made me understand why no reporter has asked Trump what he thinks ‘asylum’ means.

Because they have been intentionally curated to be woefully unqualified for the moment by their employers.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com

What's difficult for reporters is there's no evidence showing Trump's actual reasons for the deployments. You can speculate (he doesn't like blue cities, he wants to crush anti-Trump protests, he wants to intimidate voters next year) but the only reported justification is the anti-crime crackdown.

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Matt Allison @mattallison.bsky.social
4 days ago

100%.

Corporation-owned news orgs now serve dear leader and the oligarchy. They are state propaganda now. Can no longer be trusted. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, WaPo? Extinct.

The many citizen writers and photographers that go where the news now is, fearlessly, are the new heroes of journalism. Trust them.

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Dez @dezziegriff.bsky.social
3 days ago

So the argument here is that it's impossible to call out abuses of power because the abusers aren't saying "I'm abusing power"

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ghost ace @kinkcynical.bsky.social
4 days ago

Seems like the Big Journalist positions being rich failchildren daycare was a mistake.

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social
4 days ago

I feel like this every time I see phenomenal work done by student journalists; I strongly feel that many editors beat that out of them.

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F. Zoe Blackheart @inkweaver.bsky.social
3 days ago

fuck it, old dyke yells at cloud moment.

they don't make reporters like they used too. and a lot of this was because of the collapse of the press into 24 hour shitshow bread and circuses.

fucking hell I'm still mad about that.

[ex journalism major/journalist]

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