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"Journalist Jennifer Schulze of Heartland Signal noted today that as of 8:00 this morning, the New York Times had published 192 pieces on Biden’s debate performance: 142 news articles and 50 opinion pieces. Trump was covered in 92 stories, about half of which were about the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Biden #Trump #age #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2024-friday
"Although Trump has frequently slurred his words or trailed off while speaking and repeatedly fell asleep at his own criminal trial, none of the pieces mentioned Trump’s mental fitness."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"The New York Times has run 192 stories about Biden’s debate performance and only 6 about Project 2025, according to media watch groups, since Thursday night."
~ Jay Kuo
#Biden #Trump #age #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail #Project2025
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/some-tips-on-riding-this-out-more
Rebecca Solnit asks why the pundit class is so desperate to torpedo Biden in the same way it did to Hillary when she ran against Trump. People so "utterly convinced of their own ironclad rationality and objectivity" at the same time they have no clue about their emotional lives, biases, and motives….
#Biden #Trump #age #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail #Project2025
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit
"We are deciding if this nation has a future as a more-or-less democratic Republic this November, and on that rides the fate of the earth when it comes to acting on climate change. If the US falters at this decisive moment in the climate crisis, it will drag down everyone else’s efforts. Under Trump, it will."
"But the shocking supreme court decisions this summer and the looming threat of authoritarianism have gotten little ink and air, compared to the hue and cry about Biden’s competence. …
The electorate votes based on how they understand the situation and evaluate the candidates. That is, of course, in large part shaped by the media, … and the media is right now campaigning hard for a Democratic party loss. The other term for that is a Republican victory."
Part of the answer to the good question R. Solnit asks is that the pundit class is overweeningly arrogant, convinced of its own objectivity and neutrality when it's wildly the opposite of objective and neutral. I think corporate media mavens, who want to position themselves as powerbrokers, imagine that the fascism the Republicans promise to bring us will be fascism-lite for them, though hapless others will be hurt.
The movers and shakers of Germany as Hitler rose to power, including its media mavens, had the same fantasy: we can control Hitler, and the ones who get hurt will, of course, be the usual victims. Not us.
Then Hitler and the Nazis quickly proved them wrong and their arrogance was exposed as colossal blindness, and they found out that EVERYONE gets hurt when you open the door to fascism.
"The failure of the media to confront Trump the way that they are confronting Biden now is dangerous malpractice of the highest order. ...
So I ask: When will there be a real interview of Trump?"
~ Steven Beschloss
#Biden #Trump #age #MediaFail
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/when-will-there-be-a-real-interview/comments
@wdlindsy
tRump is too much of a coward to do it.
Won't stray from the friendly confines of Fox News etc.
@leemeade But unless this hasn't been disclosed, media outlets haven't tried to press him for an interview in the way they've hounded Biden to do.
@wdlindsy
A certain of groveling is required to interview Twitler. Fox News and their many spawn understand this, not sure MSM is prepared for it.
@leemeade Yes, Trump has long communicated that he will "perform" only when groveling is the framework in which the performance takes place.
@wdlindsy Every single non-Fascist news source has printed articles about how terrible a candidate Trump is for years now: e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-trial-guilty-felony.html
Trump has not changed. He's just as delusional, angry, and incoherent as he was in 2016. He now refuses to give interviews to anyone but lap dogs.
"Trump continues to be a nutcase, yet again" is not news. "Biden incoherent in debate" is news.
That's how news works. If Biden aced a town hall, that too would be news.
@wdlindsy Afuckingmen.
@wdlindsy the first thing fascists do is dismantle the existing media and install professional propagandists
no one is safe, not even the assholes who support the fascists before they do their power grab
no one is safe from fascism
@samiamsam @wdlindsy
That's what amazes me about MSM, who seem to think that in giving Trump a pass, they will be insiders.
@stargazersmith @samiamsam @wdlindsy only dead fish go with the lamestream, & most of the trumpsupporting halfwits at places like thr nytimes, atlantic monthly, newsweek, etc., are dead inside.
@samiamsam You're absolutely right.
@wdlindsy
Alas, not all. John J McCloy ( also of Warren Commission fame) got Hjalmar Schacht of German Central Bank to finance the Nazis off with about 4 years after Neremburg. Schacht then settled in Houston where he became quite wealthy.
@NoctisEqui More than one former Nazi prospered following the war, when other nations took these folks in. I'd still say that they paid a high price in seeing their country destroyed in large parts, their economy devastated, their nation humiliated, and in being forced to go into exile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Anyone who watched that debate performance should be terrified that Biden will not be able to beat Trump due to infirmity.
Implying that people who say this are Trump supporters is false to the fact.
Ignoring TFG when he says he wants journalists and editors arrested and put in prison for straying from the party line would be a monumental mistake.
And a mistake I think the media is currently making.
@ScottSoCal I couldn't agree more.
@BikeyBike Yes — we forget, so many of us, because we choose to do so.
@wdlindsy The amount of blood it takes to stop that engine once it starts is just unthinkable, as well as previously demonstrated. 
@signalthirteen I agree. I think that's an excellent point, and one that so many of us who profess to be informed also seem totally to be ignoring.
@wdlindsy you know it's funny.. not ha-ha funny, but I was watching this ep of 12 Monkeys today, the Hitler/Nazi ep
as many times as I've seen it, I never noticed before, they briefly flash a newspaper after, with a minor headline, Hitler dead, Himmler takes over
they actually managed to kill Hitler, and practically nothing changed
I don't even think Trump realizes how evil he is at this point
@MobBarley The parallels definitely seem ominous to me.
@wdlindsy
In my own theory, billionaires are colluding to promote fascism everywhere where the economy is based on oil (ie everywhere in the world). Because they know that an informed electorate would eventually vote to LIVE and resist having their children die in climate disaster. Trump’s job is to make fascism entertaining. SCOTUS job is specifically to kill the power of democracy to restrain oil oligarchs. Chevron is their knife in the heart of human survival.
@davidarnell @wdlindsy DING DING! We have a winner! You are correct!
@TransitBiker @davidarnell @wdlindsy
Virtually every bit of political activity taken by the right side of the aisle has been driven by their overarching goal to block as much #ClimateAction as they possibly can for years.
They are successful because they bribed our mainstream media and shift the discussion towards cultural wars so easily on social media.
@davidarnell I agree. I wrote something similar to a friend yesterday who for mystifying reasons wants to claim that "the left" is driving people to authoritarian solutions. From all I can see, those in the driver's seat are economic elites who want us divided and afraid and focused on bogus culture-war issues so that their economic hegemony and exploitation of us and the planet won't be challenged.
@davidarnell Thank you.
@wdlindsy I wish I could be part of a transnational resistance that pressed every politician of every stripe on the life and death requirement to restrain the billionaire oligarchs and promote intelligence and global cooperation to really press for solutions.
@davidarnell I wish that, too.