William Lindsey :toad:
What Wajahat Ali says here needs to be shouted from the rooftops:
"The modern American press is utterly broken. … It has atrophied into a shameful, laughable, and even dangerous coterie of incestuous sycophantic stenographers beholden to access and ratings over truth and facts."
Ultimately, this is a moral failing which shows many journalists now as morally unserious, ethically underdeveloped human beings.
William Lindsey :toad:
@courtcan I thought that, too — haggard is just the right word for it.
Mastodon Migration
Haggard and weird, is not a good look.
William Lindsey :toad:
"Down in Florida, the former president* held a press availability, largely because Vice President Harris had yet to have one, and the former president* could count on the bird-on-a-wire reaction of some members of the elite political press to make an 'issue' out of the comparison. Unfortunately, the former president* came across as President Biden's older brother."
~ Charles Pierce
#Trump #MediaFail #democracy
/12
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61841430/trump-mar-a-lago-presser-crowd-size/
Court Cantrell will not comply
@wdlindsy He looks so immensely unhealthy in pics from that debacle. Haggard, even.
William Lindsey :toad:
"If [what Susan Glasser says is] true, the hand-picked journalists were used as props by Trump in a propaganda event. Worse, they knew they were props but played their assigned role nonetheless.
If true, that fact would explain the journalists' odd complacency, the obsequious nature of the questions, and the lack of follow-up in the face of obvious lies."
~Robert B. Hubbell
On Glasser's commentary, see /10.
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump summoned handpicked members of the media to Mar-a-Lago for a press conference, the point of which was to change the subject from Harris’s remarkable honeymoon."
~ Susan Glasser
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump spent 6 minutes lying about crowd size. He spent 6 minutes lying about polls. He spent 6 minutes lying about the criminal cases against him. None of that has led the press to call the GOP to replace him. ...
In response to Joe Biden’s similarly awful performance at the debate, the NYT dedicated weeks to demanding he drop out.
Not Trump."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MediaFail #democracy
/8
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/09/trumps-imaginary-helicopter-friends-and-bacon-emergency/
William Lindsey :toad:
"The horse race journalists have rabidly been demanding that Kamala — who has been rather busy of late — give an interview or press conference. They’ve no doubt been goaded into doing so by Trump, because both he and JD have been demanding it too.
But if yesterday is any indication, there is no imaginable value to reporting from most of these horserace journalists. They’re just props in Trump’s reality show in which he attracts the biggest crowds in history."
William Lindsey :toad:
"There are real asymmetries in media coverage of Trump versus Harris (and before her, of Trump versus Biden and Clinton), and more broadly of Republicans versus Democrats. And in the final few months of this presidential campaign, news outlets should be thinking of how to correct for them."
~ Jill Filipovic
I respect Jill Filipovic but I have far less respect for and confidence in the media than she has.
#Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MediaFail #democracy
/7
https://jill.substack.com/p/this-election-the-task-of-the-press
William Lindsey :toad:
" It is very hard, at this point, to make arguments on behalf of their positions that are fact-based. They push lies, conspiracy theories, fantastical inventions that support their ideological positions."
Froomkin concludes,
"That’s the message that American political reporters should be conveying to the public. Doing anything short of that is journalist malpractice. It’s aiding and abetting liars."
William Lindsey :toad:
"And just now, to switch up from all of the sad, weird Trump talk, we launched a positive campaign in support of Kamala Harris using the hashtag #KamalaBringsUsJoy. We’d love it if you used it in your social media posts."
#Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MediaFail #democracy #TrumpMeltdown #KamalaBringsUsJoy
/4
William Lindsey :toad:
As Dan Froomkin notes, Joe Conason stated recently that the contemporary right (e.g., Republican party) lies and lies again for two reasons. The first is that "they’ve discovered, over a long period, that it is highly profitable to mobilize people’s fears and resentments around mythical issues."
"The second reason is that facts don’t work for them."
#Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MediaFail #democracy
/5
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/political-reporters-should-report
William Lindsey :toad:
"I assumed the Press would basically ignore the fact Trump lied at a constant about everything, and that’s just what they did. So immediately after watching over an hour of that nonsense, we launched a #TrumpMeltdown campaign on social media to make it clear that Donald’s behavior is not normal. It quickly went viral, trending at #4 in the US and getting more than 415 million impressions."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MediaFail #democracy
/3
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-emerges-from-bunker-has-epic
William Lindsey :toad:
"They’ve had nine years to understand the assignment and adapt to Donald Trump, a twice-impeached convicted criminal who lies as he breathes, incites a violent insurrection, and refers to the press as fake news' and 'enemy of the people,' and still they fail. ...
A robust, smart, and critical free press is a healthy indicator of functioning democracy that is willing to ask tough questions of those in power and demands the truth instead of propaganda."
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