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"The other big loser Tuesday was the mainstream media, which has all but imploded in public trust and as a force in American democracy. Trump won with the most disinformed electorate ever
The battle to create a world for truth starts now."
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it 🧵 1/...
🎁https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trust-mainstream-media-2024-election-20241110.html?id=bpjtJ3uwA0BYL&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral#loaded
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12/ "The worst part is that this has to happen not in healthy environ but when America is led by an authoritarian & his billionaire allies who have an arsenal of tools— lawsuits, licensing fights, pub pressure, maybe even arrests—to stop this reinvention from happening. We will have to save free press in America...while getting whacked by a baseball bat. But we have to try, because history has shown there is only one place where democracy can survive. In a place called Reality"
Plz read it all
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8/ "The now-president-elect, according to that NBC survey, posted his biggest margin of 53-27% among voters who don’t follow any news. Trump’s win was a triumph of the ill-informed...They are getting their information from X, where its pro-Trump owner billionaire Musk made false or misleading claims that received an estimated 2 billion views."
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9/ "he American Experiment will be comatose, at best, until we can start debating these issues from a place of reality. That means acknowledging the diminished role of traditional media as we know it — something both candidates themselves did in seeking out podcasts and influencers — and inventing a brand-new world of information..."
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10/ "A few quick points:
— Self-interested billionaires can’t be trusted to save the news...
— Local news matters, a lot...
— Yes, there needs to be a reality-based community of podcasters, influencers, etc. No, I have no idea what that looks like or how it happens...
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11/ "Last week, a lot of liberals argued about “How do we create our own Joe Rogan?” when history shows that self-conscious left-wing efforts to recreate what’s worked on the right — remember the Air America liberal talk-radio network of the 2000s — have a poor track record. That said, the millions in opposition to Trump and his MAGA movement are desperately seeking ways to connect. The current crisis may actually cause this to happen."
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5/ "...it’s also fair to ask whether this head-on crash between journalism & increasingly tribal ideologies even mattered that much in the end. The perfect-storm fluke of mid-20th-century media monopolies that David Halberstam famously described as The Powers That Be have been zapped by electrons of the internet, creating other ways for folks to speak to each other on soc media or read targeted websites that appealed to their niche interests & ideas or prejudices.
But esp their prejudices"
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6/ "Much of what raced to fill the vacuum of declining mainstream media has been misinformation and much of that is disinformation — deliberate falsehoods in pursuit of political gain."
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7/ "The things that pundits have been talking about since Tuesday — an economy that hasn’t worked for the working class since the time of Ronald Reagan, anxieties among white voters about a potential end to white privilege and the patriarchy, and a Democratic Party that’s lost touch with the great American middle — all factored into this election. But nothing mattered more than this: Donald Trump was returned to power by the most badly informed electorate in modern American history."
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2/ "The American mainstream media, and its vital watchdog role that once made it a trusted, major institution in a flawed yet functioning democracy, imploded in 2024, and it happened in two ways — gradually and then suddenly.
The sudden part came in the days immediately after the Oct. 25 revelation that Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos — the third-richest person on Earth — had spiked his editorial board’s long-planned endorsement of Democrat Kamala Harris over the GOP’s Donald Trump."
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3/ "But the gradual destruction of public trust in traditional media has been every bit as powerful. You could watch its final days among the last, mostly liberal holdouts who still gathered on the once free-flowing social-media site called Twitter that Musk—richest person on Earth—bought & turned into disinfo cesspool. You saw steady drips of distrust—over “sanewashing” of Trump’s unhinged rants ..— after the headlines proclaiming that record-low unemployment was bad news for Biden"
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4/ "Now even more folks are checking out in disgust after Trump’s win..They’ve abandoned the elite mainstream media — newsrooms like the Post and New York Times, the traditional TV networks and the cable outlets like MSNBC and CNN — at a moment when pollsters had already found public trust at an all-time record low of 31%. In giving up, liberals and moderates were joining conservatives who’ve loathed the media..."
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