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heelinhell said:
and so it goes...

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'Anticipatory obedience': Major media outlets accused of withholding fire on Trump

In his column for NPR, media analyst David Folkenflik raised concerns that major media outlets are holding their fire on Donald Trump's trials and tribulations before the election out of fears of retaliation should he win re-election.According to the journalist, recent actions by the LA Times...
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the media bears so, so much of the responsibility for allowing that movement to become what it is.

they've abdicated their responsibilities over and over and over again in reporting truthfully and forcefully on trump/magaland.

the bo'siding and sane washing are mind-boggling and infuriating.
 
heelinhell said:
The "never was actually" liberal media are curled up in a fetal position hoping that their servility will spare them the wrath of Trump and keep them off the enemies list should he win the election.
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This is a natural consequence of the collapse of the traditional media industry and its cannibalization by money-hungry owners more interested in money than journalism. These are business decisions, not journalistic decisions. What they don't realize (or care about) is that in the long run, by trying to offend no one, they will eliminate any value their papers' journalism has. They'll all go the way of Sports Illustrated, running listicles and AI content, eventually.
 
4thgenheel said:
the media bears so, so much of the responsibility for allowing that movement to become what it is.

they've abdicated their responsibilities over and over and over again in reporting truthfully and forcefully on trump/magaland.

the bo'siding and sane washing are mind-boggling and infuriating.
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It is infuriating, but not mind-boggling. Over the past few years more and more of our news media has been bought up by wealthy billionaires. The LA Times is owned by a buddy of Elon Musk and he singlehandedly overruled his editors and prevented them from running an editorial endorsing Harris, and he's also moved the paper to the right. Politico is owned by a right-wing German publisher who in 2020 asked all of his editors to pray for Trump's reelection. CNN was bought a couple of years ago by a billionaire who is buddies with the Murdochs and has moved the network to the right and cancelled many of the network's programs that were considered liberal. And the Washington Post's CEO and publisher is a right-winger who worked for the Murdochs for years managing right-wing papers in Britain, and who bluntly said today that not only is the WaPo not endorsing anyone this year, but they will never endorse a candidate again in a presidential election, thus overturning decades of the WaPo endorsing presidential candidates.

And of course the granddaddy and flagship of all US legacy media, the NY Times, has become a gutless organization that relentlessly bosides everything. The ugly truth for liberals is that most of our so-called news media has been bought by right-wing plutocrats, or is being managed by right-wingers. Just look at what's happened to Twitter under Musk's control. The list of liberal or even centrist media is getting awfully thin.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
It is infuriating, but not mind-boggling. Over the past few years more and more of our news media has been bought up by wealthy billionaires. The LA Times is owned by a buddy of Elon Musk and he singlehandedly overruled his editors and prevented them from running an editorial endorsing Harris, and he's also moved the paper to the right. Politico is owned by a right-wing German publisher who in 2020 asked all of his editors to pray for Trump's reelection. CNN was bought a couple of years ago by a billionaire who is buddies with the Murdochs and has moved the network to the right and cancelled many of the network's programs that were considered liberal. And the Washington Post's CEO and publisher is a right-winger who worked for the Murdochs for years managing right-wing papers in Britain, and who bluntly said today that not only is the WaPo not endorsing anyone this year, but they will never endorse a candidate again in a presidential election, thus overturning decades of the WaPo endorsing presidential candidates.

And of course the granddaddy and flagship of all US legacy media, the NY Times, has become a gutless organization that relentlessly bosides everything. The ugly truth for liberals is that most of our so-called news media has been bought by right-wing plutocrats, or is being managed by right-wingers. Just look at what's happened to Twitter under Musk's control. The list of liberal or even centrist media is getting awfully thin.
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The right built a parallel media ecosystem based on disinformation and propaganda and are now commandeering legacy media. Scary times for truth and democracy.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
The right built a parallel media ecosystem based on disinformation and propaganda and are now commandeering legacy media. Scary times for truth and democracy.
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I’d argue that the right built, and continues to build, a parallel media ecosystem BECAUSE of the disinformation and propaganda pushed by the legacy media. Of course, that doesn’t mean they (the right) are free from those very same type of sins themselves, but…here we are. I certainly agree with your second sentence.
 
Croatoan said:
I’d argue that the right built, and continues to build, a parallel media ecosystem BECAUSE of the disinformation and propaganda pushed by the legacy media. Of course, that doesn’t mean they (the right) are free from those very same type of sins themselves, but…here we are. I certainly agree with your second sentence.
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I’d argue the right and the left used to hold the media in similar regard, until conservative influencers starting in the late 1970s began pushing an alternate view of reality that focused on things like wealth somehow “trickling down” from the rich to the poor, abortion being the equivalent of murder, and urban areas being more dangerous than rural areas. The legacy media did not change. It continued to report reality. But because conservatives began to believe in the alternate, false reality, they also began to believe the legacy media was biased and not trustworthy. So right wing media outlets emerged to exploit the alternate reality conservatives had embraced. And we’re now at Stage 10 of that evolution.
 
lawtig02 said:
I’d argue the right and the left used to hold the media in similar regard, until conservative influencers starting in the late 1970s began pushing an alternate view of reality that focused on things like wealth somehow “trickling down” from the rich to the poor, abortion being the equivalent of murder, and urban areas being more dangerous than rural areas. The legacy media did not change. It continued to report reality. But because conservatives began to believe in the alternate, false reality, they also began to believe the media was biased and not trustworthy. So right wing media outlets emerged to exploit the alternate reality conservatives had embraced. And were now at Stage 10 of that evolution.
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Actually started in the 50s,fwiw.
 
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