William Lindsey :toad:
"Our attention-starved corporate media hasn’t been much better, catastrophically failing to honestly report on the most significant story in more than 160 years: The Republicans’ relentless attack on America, and our ability to choose who represents us with our sacred vote."
~ D. Earl Stephens
William Lindsey :toad:
"Democracy is hanging by a thread, and you’re lucky if you hear about that at all from our meandering press, which is far more interested in keeping things close.
There’s a horse race to run, and billions of dollars to stuff in their overflowing pockets."
William Lindsey :toad:
Scott Dworkin points to five glaring corporate media fails from this week as the media dealt with Harris and Trump, and concludes bluntly,
"At this point, it’s clear the Press works for Trump."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/time-for-the-press-to-stop-working
William Lindsey :toad:
"Feeding the media beast is a wrong-headed approach, as is pandering to focus groups of people who say they want 'detail' because the media has trained them well to ask for plans even if far too many wouldn’t know a policy plan if it bit them in the rear."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Harris’ candidacy has made it harder to peddle that message but make no mistake that the consistent drumbeat from the mainstream press that Harris hasn’t offered up enough details or hasn;’t given an interview to the 'right' media outlets (the New York Times, of course) is about getting their preferred candidate in. Only the mainstream press can absorb Trump speaking about turning Canadian rivers into water faucets and scrub it clean of wackiness."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Giving in to these guys won’t work. She could give a presentation with a mountain of PowerPoint slides and white papers from the world’s most prominent experts (aka what Hillary Clinton did, as well as Elizabeth Warren) and it won’t change the narrative."
William Lindsey :toad:
"In 2016 that meant advancing the right’s caricatures of Hillary Clinton, in 2020 this was done by playing down much of Trump’s incompetence the closer we got to the election, and so far this year the main thrust of this was the 'Biden is too old' narrative."
William Lindsey :toad:
"The mainstream media has settled on a narrative about this election, and they did it years ago. They want excitement and book deals and gossip and trash talking and the best way to get this is through a Donald Trump win."
~ Oliver Willis
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail
/1
https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/if-kamala-harris-keeps-wonking-she
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