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Josh Marshall speaks plain truth:
"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic Party. This doesn’t mean every journalist individually, of course. But the establishment media generally — the Times, the Post, the Journal, CNN and the business news channels, all of them…."
#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
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"The vast majority of mainstream media pundits, and the most prominent political party analysts are simply ill-equipped to speak or report with knowledge, context, sophistication, or authority about how race shapes American politics and electoral outcomes.
~ Sherrilynn Ifill
And because of this, corporate media are perfectly happy to pave the way for fascism.
#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
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https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased-b5f
"The media will soon be leaving their fetish for bipartisanship, compromise, and comity behind since the only people on whom they ever impose these standards—Democrats—will be out of power."
~ Jason Linkins
#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"If you are old enough to remember the first time Trump came to power, then you’ve seen this movie before. During his tenure, President Barack Obama was constantly besieged by the worst pundits in America for his failure to bring Republicans—who were at the time following Mitch McConnell’s monomaniacal pursuit of obstruction at any cost—to the table to support broad bipartisan initiatives."
#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
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