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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:51:34 JST Laffy

   • Will Bunch

   "The #media completely blowing the election coverage is allowing #Harris to run as the 1st post-media president

   Instead of meeting a threat to democracy, careerist clickbaiters have both-sidesed, fact-checked trivia, and asked pointless questions

   2024's massive media fail"

   If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵1/...
   🎁 #GiftLink https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/media-elections-dnc-kamala-harris-military-20240827.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:54:32 JST Laffy

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     2/ "This column, abt decline/fall of America’s polit news media in pivotal election year, very hard to write—not for a lack of material, but bc I can’t keep pace w every day’s new & stunning examples of bad journalism, each spiraling lower...

     An idea that animated the right: fantasy that Walz is a phony..2006 episode when his then-congressional campaign claimed he’d won a youth award from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce when really it was — get this! — the Nebraska Jr Chamber of Commerce!"

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:03 JST Laffy

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     11/11 "In this campaign I think the healthy journalistic mindset is that we want to save democracy in Nov, but we also want Harris to show she can answer at least a few tough questions and explain her policies beyond hopelessly vague generalities.

     The reality is Harris might surge into WH doing very little of this—maybe none.. Harris feels she doesn’t need journalists, & a lot of public is cheering her on. & a vainglorious elite news media w severe tunnel vision has no1 to blame but themselves"

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:04 JST Laffy

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     8/ "You know who gets the new landscape better than anyone else? Kamala Harris.

     The vice president and Democratic nominee is running to be America’s first post-media president. In Chicago, much was made of the fact that Team Harris and the Democrats invited 200 sometimes fawning internet “content creators” who got VIP treatment while mainstream journalists fought over nosebleed-level seats and refrained from eating or going to the bathroom for fear of losing them."

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:04 JST Laffy

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     9/ "But more broadly, Harris and her campaign is 100% focused on message discipline to build her brand and sell it to the American people in a few short weeks. The surest way to get thrown off that message discipline would be a stray answer at an open news conference or in an interview with the likes of NBC’s Lester Holt — so for now, Harris is simply not doing that.

     And she’s getting away with it."

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:04 JST Laffy

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     10/ "Journalists can whine abt this.. but when less than 1/3 of Amer's trust mass media, few folks are listening to them...While traditionally deep distrust of mainstrm press long been province of rt-wing GOP, now it’s liberals who once cheered for media to do better who seem to be giving up on them.

     This is not great...plunge in faith leads to cancelled subscriptions that leads to laid-off reporters or shuttered printing plants—not the vision of founders who believed a free press is essential"

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:05 JST Laffy

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     4/ "Indeed, the outrageous overinflation of the Walz story was nearly forgotten by Monday morning when the Times, which has bent over backwards to belittle the joy of Kamala Harris’ wildly successful DNC, published op-ed from editor of conserv. Nat Review, Rich Lowry, headlined simply: “Trump Can Win on Character.” ..

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:05 JST Laffy

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     5/ "While no one would argue with their stated approach of tough, unbiased scrutiny of all sides, the fact-checking industrial complex can’t handle the truth when one party’s platform is based on a firehouse of lies and the other party is trying to be serious, if not always literal, about reality"

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 08:40:05 JST Laffy

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     6/ "...Typical was USA Today calling it “false” when the DNC talks about “Trump’s Project 2025″ because the blueprint for his presidency was produced by the Heritage Foundation, even though most of its authors are former and would-be future Trump staffers and it offers the only program for filling jobs in a Trump administration.

     C’mon, man."

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     7/👉🏼 "It would require another column — maybe a book — to explain why this is happening. I see it as less the public’s main complaint (corporate control of the media) and more about our profession’s weird value structure, where it’s more important to be savvy, cynical, and not be portrayed as naive shills for liberalism than to care about saving democracy from authoritarian rule, on top of maybe a new and not always healthy brand of careerism from younger journalists."

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     3/ "The nattering nabobs of negativism had accomplished their mission in a year when the elite mainstream media has lost its doggone mind —going after small daily clickbait like a puppy chasing its tail, demanding news conferences only to ask trivial q's, issuing ludicrous “fact checks,” and desperately seeking gravitas in the candidate just found guilty on 34 felony counts and liable for rape and financial fraud, who was dinged by NPR for 162 lies or distortions in just one news conference"

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     Darwin Woodka (darwinwoodka@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 10:20:32 JST Darwin Woodka

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     • Will Bunch

     @GottaLaff @willbunch

     Media: *puts up paywalls so we can't read their stuff*

     Media: *refuse to cover Project 2025 and push Trump on what his policies actually are*

     Also media: "We demand Harris give us interviews so we can inform the public!"

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