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‘An existential battle’: how Trump’s win is shifting the US media landscape
(www.theguardian.com)
They weren’t that critical of Trump in the first place
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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For all the "we shouldn't give up before we've started to fight" that we got from the media after Bezos made clear he was bending the knee before the election, the media sure as shit wants to give up before fighting.
“Cowards who sanewashed him at every turn taking the cowards’ way out by not reporting true things in hopes to curry favor with the people who will hate them regardless.”
It’s a fail. There’s no battle. You failed at your core job and are plotting your acquiescence.
You failed the people.
This from an industry absolutely whored to the advertising dollar. An ad in your products is a sign of shame for both of you.
The media is not journalism, there is no journalism anymore. It is all corporate entertainment and propaganda. These news outlets don't report "news" they report the narrative their billionaire owners want to be reported. It's been that way since they got Ronny's FCC to repeal the Fairness Doctrine. These fuckers don't make money if we are at peace, they don't make money when the economy is good they don't make money unless the story bleeds. They don't give a fuck if Trump won or lost or how old Biden is, all they care about is how they will make the most money they can.
Trump is just the next evolution, we have seen it before with people like P.T. Barnum.
That's my opinion anyway.
Democracy died after being hooded, taken to a black site, suffocated and left in the darkness so that a few billionaire could keep being assholes.
Bold of you to assume that whatever you have over there ever qualified as democracy.
Am not American.
"Democracy dies in darkness"
That is?/was the washinton post tagline.
Just a simple observation on how Jeff bezos sold whatever he may have claimed to be a soul and whatever was left of any semblance of democracy to appease the god-king-emperor.
Washington Post, but yeah.
Thanks fixed.
Sorry for assuming
Should have thought about it before giving him so much favorable press.
The leopard are yearning faces.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
I love this quote, thank you. Helps with perspective.
I feel like we could use a modern-day Winston Churchill, or Walter Winchell.
Get ready for China-level misinformation.
Oh so you think it will get better? 😋
I'm pretty sure China doesn't have the amount of misinformation Americans are exposed to.
Chinese misinformation is much more focused, and not all over the place, not even Chinese propaganda or people likens Xi to a God reborn, as Christians do with Trump.
The misinformation is more like North Korea. With the difference that in USA the real information is also available. Which is why only about half the US population fall for it, where in North Korea it's probably 80-90%
The American media have failed completely, normalizing Trump and normalizing crazy like denial of scientific facts and normalizing malignant narcissism.
Get that fifty cents!!
How could for-profit media ever survive this? They're incentivised to move with the flow in order to maintain profit whether or not this flow leads in the direction of truth or democracy. I have a feeling that for-profit media isn't able to to fulfill the role of media required for a working democracy.
Time for that media to go as bankrupt as their principles.
"Shifting," as if this hasn't been happening since he rode that fucking escalator. That was what, 296 years ago..?
They could pivot to actually covering the news without carrying water for fascists, or they could take the election results to mean people want them to carry more water for fascists. Gee, I wonder which one they'll choose... 🤔