I’ve been saying for nearly a decade Democratic elites should run on “Donald Trump only cares about himself and his billionaire friends…”
and she just said it!
I’ve been saying for nearly a decade Democratic elites should run on “Donald Trump only cares about himself and his billionaire friends…”
and she just said it!
“The [New York] Times is engaged in intense internal conversations about how to distance itself from the [left] and avoid being seen as a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party.”
Let’s be clear.
NYT is doing this to maximize its profits.
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/18/2024/the-new-york-times-ezra-klein-problem
“We Go High” today is good for rich, comfortable people like Jake Tapper who pretend America is not in danger because they like their lives.
But change is needed.
“When they go low, we make fun of them.”
Too often professionals and the highly educated just blithely consume information without asking where it comes from and how it got there.
The wrong tampon story gained traction on Twitter so liberals can see it, due to an organized right wing disinfo campaign.
Appreciate this explainer from a law prof.
But I want to note one related point: it says this “wrong” story “gained traction on [Twitter]”
But Twitter has been *intentionally tilted* to allow wrong stories like this to gain traction. It’s not organic!
Which involves the right but not just the right. Also Musk. And Laura Loomer.
The US right knows their policies are unpopular, and they know they need disinformation to gain power. It’s why Thiel told Musk to buy Twitter and why Thiel funds Vance too. It’s coordinated. /end
This is good messaging.
Media ownership matters.
It’s not just reporters, it’s not just the faces you see. Media execs matter as much if not more.
The pro-Trump media exec is John C Malone, who played a big role in the WBD merger and now has large influence on the board. Malone got his protege David Zaslav - another pro-Trump conservative - hired in a top role.
And Zaslav fired liberals and hired rightwingers.
As we watch CNN boost the idea that Kamala is not Black, it would be good if we all talked anoit how it was a bad idea to let a conservative pro-Trump media exec effectively buy and take over CNN, fire liberals, and hire conservative journalists and execs.
"Elon Musk’s Plan to Put a Million Earthlings on Mars in 20 Years... Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm."
Parts of the New York Times are great. Some journalists are great.
But this is not ...a serious newspaper.
Fetterman’s aides clearly get this- they get that people are wondering about which epistemic circles he is in.
“ his communications director, Carrie Adams, seeing that we were talking past each other, prompted him. “And meetings with experts, not just news outlets”
“ In a recent Times story, an ex-aide had attributed his political turn to an increasing diet of conservative news media.…”
On epistemic circles.
The excellent Fetterman profile in the New Yorker contains a strong subtext about epistemic circles — that is, what information does Fetterman seek out, and where does he get information from?
Some quotes in thread
http://newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/john-fettermans-war
Oh— and this: media is impt for shaping epistemic circles.
That’s why Dems like us should care much much much more about media than we have.
Build Democratic media, do media policy, attack rightwing media. Have a media strategy because media affects people’s epistemics. /end
I don’t have much more to say about Fetterman, except that Jentleson’s theory isn’t implausible. That theory: that Fetterman is looking for a way to troll to get attention he can use to exert political power. Could be.
/end
It’s also clear that a Republican colleague from PA has significant input into Fetterman’s epistemic framework on Israel.
“I’m just incredibly inspired and proud of the way he’s going about his work,” Bartos said.
Fetterman signals his circles of info are not large
“But I’m, like, ‘There are no Middle East experts.’ Because if there are experts, well, have things gotten any better?” He went on, “I’ve had meetings with these experts, and they’re not able to answer all of these questions.”
What can US Democrats do about Rafah?
What can we do to affect Netanyahu?
Here's an action we can advocate for:
"Democrats should come to Netanyahu's speech carrying signs from Ha'aretz."
Quote Israeli critics of Netanyahu. God knows he's got enough.
“Trump’s run-out-the clock legal strategy worked.”
Blame the Fed Soc and our captured courts.
Trump packed the courts with extremist political actors like Aileen Cannon and the Fed Soc SCOTUS. And they are protecting him.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-legal-delay-tactics-worked-cannon-willis
Before about 1950 many US papers had a point of view.Big Media, led by Henry Luce, moved toward neutral journalism, which is profitable for big media corporations.Let’s build a better media: revive media policy.Searchable by tootfinder.
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