The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism – Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.
The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism – Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.
Voters knew what happened and said a criminal is fine with us. What else can they do?
CockBrother on
This is one of the things I hate the most. The news actors on TV and other media constantly preparing for their next shocked Pikachu moment. Then the next page of Project 2025 turns, or the next very obvious step of the path to fascism takes place, and they roll out their act all over again.
None of them have any analytical capability at all to connect two related efforts, that hit the news the very same day. They’re just strange independent events. And everything is given all of the [un]reasonable excuse that can be given. And the uneducated reader / viewer is left at home to put together the pieces.
Keshire on
The media is owned and operated by that same circle of oligarchs that hover around Trump.
Virbillion on
corporate media is not on our side.
for profit ‘news’ can never be centered on truth.
truth or profit. that has always been in the choice.
a corporation can not choose anything other than profit.
since the reaction based algorithm began driving engagement online, all forms of media have retooled to similar models.
we need public funded news sources, npr is not enough.
we need to outlaw the reaction based algorithm.
we need a modern fairness doctrine applied to all forms of modern media.
liars need to be fined. agents of misinformation need to be jailed.
and society wide we need to kill off the ideology of ‘greed is good’ and realize that if a corporation does not support human flourishing then it has no justification to exist.
Bobambu on
The press ain’t free. How can any news media owned by billionaires be considered free?
Ok-disaster2022 on
You can quickly identify every modern new source as bias for or against Trump simply by how they identify him. If they call him anyrhing other than his true name: Pedo Trump, then they are obviously biased in his favor. If they do not list his 31 felonies and multiple impeachments as background in every article, they are biased in his favor. Context and reminders matter.
SpudgeBoy on
Exactly. The media has access to even more information than we do. They do this all day as a job. They have got to see the end game. If they don’t, they need to not be doing their job. If they do see it and aren’t reporting it, they need to lose their jobs.
This is the attitude of most MAGAs, and MAGApologists. But you know they’ll be right back there in November voting for these same pieces of shit. And defending their every move through sanewashing, and ratings chasing.
funtimes-forall on
Everybody does everything for the money only. Take David Muir and ABC news for example (and I don’t have anything against the guy). He was practically created by AI. He’s young, handsome, buff (they keep showing him in t-shirts) and he always looks as empathic as hell. The news they present is carefully selected and presented in a way to not be controversial to the left or right. And they rightly bill their show as “America’s most watched news”, as if it were some mark of quality. They’re doing their amoral job and doing it well. At some point, people have to take some responsibility for being informed instead of just lulled.
gergek on
100% bought and paid for by our pedophile overlords to keep *you* in your place fighting for scraps while they get fat, devouring our childrens’ futures.
PancakePhi on
Yeah this is just access journalism rotting in real time. they know, we know, everyone knows, but pretending not to know keeps the checks coming. meanwhile the country gets cooked.
Veasna1 on
Yes, Reagan necked the Fair Doctrine act, that together with other changes opened the door to this mess.
PropofolMargarita on
The media dismissed legitimate concerns because they were more concerned about access. Trump was ratings gold as well. May they all reap what they have sown.
Artistic_Half_8301 on
They’ve had a million Watergates in the last 12 years and did nothing with them. Inept and stupid describes modern day “journalism”.
12Stabler on
If only we had some journalists with any guts. At least do an article on your surrender to the new norm.
MaleficentPorphyrin on
News isn’t journalism, it never has been. You can recognize journalism because it dwells on a topic for more than a page, or two minutes on screen. News is headlines and ‘coming up…’ What I am getting at is, the American people aren’t ever exposed to analysis of the issues, just hot takes in quickly digestible form.
Accomplished-Run221 on
I hope someone from NPR reads this.
Correctthecorrectors on
News channels have stopped reporting news and now have only goal: manufacture consent.
They all want people to start supporting policies that go against their own interests.
They’re basically all like North Korean state ran television , except they all offer their own flavor of propaganda to steer people into servitude and slavery
KrasnovPlaysTheHits on
>I wandered down to the pressroom on the fifth floor to hear about Trump’s testimony. The reporters sounded weary; they had heard it all before. “Goddamn it,” one shouted at me, **“we created him! We bought his bullshit! He was always a phony, and we filled our papers with him!”**
Aside from the obvious conflicts of interest in ownership/editorial control, etc. The reality is that most “journalists” are just reporters. Theres no analytical capability or skillset, they arent all that intelligent, “the scoop” isnt about unearthing some groundshaking secret but instead beating everyone else to reporting the headline, the interview isnt about challenging the interviewee or exposing the truth but instead about access to power, etc.
Extra-Ad5925 on
The whole “he says he doesn’t know what Project 2025 is therefore we will report that” was infuriating. David Muir owes everyone a public apology for that scolding he gave Kamala during the one debate.
Aar1012 on
The Media and Trump are two addicts just feeding off each other. The media is addicted to clicks and views while Trump is addicted to attention.
A dangerous combination that is destroying us
Lets_Eat_Superglue on
There’s only one thing you need to know about the news media in the US to understand that none of it is journalism. There are three major and a dozen minor 24 news networks that almost exclusively cover US politics, not one of them covers the details of what’s in legislation passed through Congress.
Stop and really think about that. 24/7 coverage of what’s happening in and related to the federal government and the only time they tell their audience what it’s actually doing it’s one or two controversial items in 1/100 bills being debated or signed into law. They’re entertainment networks, not news.
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That is what they’re paid to do…?
Voters knew what happened and said a criminal is fine with us. What else can they do?
This is one of the things I hate the most. The news actors on TV and other media constantly preparing for their next shocked Pikachu moment. Then the next page of Project 2025 turns, or the next very obvious step of the path to fascism takes place, and they roll out their act all over again.
None of them have any analytical capability at all to connect two related efforts, that hit the news the very same day. They’re just strange independent events. And everything is given all of the [un]reasonable excuse that can be given. And the uneducated reader / viewer is left at home to put together the pieces.
The media is owned and operated by that same circle of oligarchs that hover around Trump.
corporate media is not on our side.
for profit ‘news’ can never be centered on truth.
truth or profit. that has always been in the choice.
a corporation can not choose anything other than profit.
since the reaction based algorithm began driving engagement online, all forms of media have retooled to similar models.
we need public funded news sources, npr is not enough.
we need to outlaw the reaction based algorithm.
we need a modern fairness doctrine applied to all forms of modern media.
liars need to be fined. agents of misinformation need to be jailed.
and society wide we need to kill off the ideology of ‘greed is good’ and realize that if a corporation does not support human flourishing then it has no justification to exist.
The press ain’t free. How can any news media owned by billionaires be considered free?
You can quickly identify every modern new source as bias for or against Trump simply by how they identify him. If they call him anyrhing other than his true name: Pedo Trump, then they are obviously biased in his favor. If they do not list his 31 felonies and multiple impeachments as background in every article, they are biased in his favor. Context and reminders matter.
Exactly. The media has access to even more information than we do. They do this all day as a job. They have got to see the end game. If they don’t, they need to not be doing their job. If they do see it and aren’t reporting it, they need to lose their jobs.
>Political scientist Corey Robin, who had [spent years dismissing](https://jacobin.com/2017/04/donald-trump-fascism-arno-mayer) those who called MAGA fascist, [admitted on an October podcast](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/jamelle-bouie-says-your-fear-of-trump-isnt-helping-plus-humphrey-bogarts-betrayal?tab=transcript): “I was skeptical coming into this second administration that they would be able to wield the kind of power that people feared they would wield. I have since turned out to be wrong.”
This is the attitude of most MAGAs, and MAGApologists. But you know they’ll be right back there in November voting for these same pieces of shit. And defending their every move through sanewashing, and ratings chasing.
Everybody does everything for the money only. Take David Muir and ABC news for example (and I don’t have anything against the guy). He was practically created by AI. He’s young, handsome, buff (they keep showing him in t-shirts) and he always looks as empathic as hell. The news they present is carefully selected and presented in a way to not be controversial to the left or right. And they rightly bill their show as “America’s most watched news”, as if it were some mark of quality. They’re doing their amoral job and doing it well. At some point, people have to take some responsibility for being informed instead of just lulled.
100% bought and paid for by our pedophile overlords to keep *you* in your place fighting for scraps while they get fat, devouring our childrens’ futures.
Yeah this is just access journalism rotting in real time. they know, we know, everyone knows, but pretending not to know keeps the checks coming. meanwhile the country gets cooked.
Yes, Reagan necked the Fair Doctrine act, that together with other changes opened the door to this mess.
The media dismissed legitimate concerns because they were more concerned about access. Trump was ratings gold as well. May they all reap what they have sown.
They’ve had a million Watergates in the last 12 years and did nothing with them. Inept and stupid describes modern day “journalism”.
If only we had some journalists with any guts. At least do an article on your surrender to the new norm.
News isn’t journalism, it never has been. You can recognize journalism because it dwells on a topic for more than a page, or two minutes on screen. News is headlines and ‘coming up…’ What I am getting at is, the American people aren’t ever exposed to analysis of the issues, just hot takes in quickly digestible form.
I hope someone from NPR reads this.
News channels have stopped reporting news and now have only goal: manufacture consent.
They all want people to start supporting policies that go against their own interests.
They’re basically all like North Korean state ran television , except they all offer their own flavor of propaganda to steer people into servitude and slavery
>I wandered down to the pressroom on the fifth floor to hear about Trump’s testimony. The reporters sounded weary; they had heard it all before. “Goddamn it,” one shouted at me, **“we created him! We bought his bullshit! He was always a phony, and we filled our papers with him!”**
[Excerpt from an article written in **1990**.](https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1990/9/after-the-gold-rush)
Aside from the obvious conflicts of interest in ownership/editorial control, etc. The reality is that most “journalists” are just reporters. Theres no analytical capability or skillset, they arent all that intelligent, “the scoop” isnt about unearthing some groundshaking secret but instead beating everyone else to reporting the headline, the interview isnt about challenging the interviewee or exposing the truth but instead about access to power, etc.
The whole “he says he doesn’t know what Project 2025 is therefore we will report that” was infuriating. David Muir owes everyone a public apology for that scolding he gave Kamala during the one debate.
The Media and Trump are two addicts just feeding off each other. The media is addicted to clicks and views while Trump is addicted to attention.
A dangerous combination that is destroying us
There’s only one thing you need to know about the news media in the US to understand that none of it is journalism. There are three major and a dozen minor 24 news networks that almost exclusively cover US politics, not one of them covers the details of what’s in legislation passed through Congress.
Stop and really think about that. 24/7 coverage of what’s happening in and related to the federal government and the only time they tell their audience what it’s actually doing it’s one or two controversial items in 1/100 bills being debated or signed into law. They’re entertainment networks, not news.