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Davidbootster 🍉🍋💙<a href="https://mastodon.social/@ReneDamkot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ReneDamkot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Belle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Belle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/@veranderwens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@veranderwens</a> van rechts georiënteerde journalisten verwacht ik niet anders. Het gaat met name om de groep journalisten die het <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a> vertegenwoordigen. Zij zullen moeten opstaan en de zaken benoemen zoals ze zijn. Le Pen is (minimaal) een witte boorden crimineel, en wordt daar nu voor gestraft. Zo simpel kan het zijn.

Sheila DeBonis<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/word-extinguished-bishop-barrons-digital-silence?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=33a44a4d85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_17_02_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-33a44a4d85-231121892" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/word-extinguished-bishop-barrons-digital-silence?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=33a44a4d85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_17_02_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-33a44a4d85-231121892</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BishopBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BishopBarron</a> had been, and still is, one of the greatest <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Catholicapologetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catholicapologetics</a> of our time, and has a history of progressive takes. His ministry, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WordOnFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordOnFire</a>, actually sued <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Commonweal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commonweal</a> magazine for an article which compares his comment to a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> one. He's trying to be like too many <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/priests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#priests</a> nowadays, taking this weird impossible <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/objectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#objectivity</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a>. I like and respect <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RobertBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertBarron</a> a lot and encourage him to do more, and speak out more.

Joey van der PoelIk denk dat Sander hiermee de vinger op de zere plek legt: “Journalisten zien hun werk steeds minder als het professioneel cureren en interpreteren van het nieuws, en meer als het 'neutraal' doorgeven van nieuws of zelfs van wat er over het nieuws wordt gezegd door anderen.”<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/valsebalans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#valsebalans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalistiek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalistiek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politiek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politiek</a><a href="https://books.apple.com/nl/book/de-domheid-regeert/id6737697804" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://books.apple.com/nl/book/de-domheid-regeert/id6737697804</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CorporateMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateMedia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MediaFail</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CorporateMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateMedia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MediaFail</a> /3<a href="https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=861dc9bd7f4e7dd3cccd534d0ae2a2e9.1147&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=861dc9bd7f4e7dd3cccd534d0ae2a2e9.1147&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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 IfillAnd because of this, corporate media are perfectly happy to pave the way for fascism.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CorporateMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateMedia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MediaFail</a> /2<a href="https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased-b5f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased-b5f</a>

William Lindsey :toad: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…."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CorporateMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateMedia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MediaFail</a> /1<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wired-for-the-gop-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wired-for-the-gop-2</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Like I said, a successful relationship requires reciprocity otherwise it’s simply an exercise in abuse.After 9 years, I’m done. I have no desire to reach out to or understand any Trump voter, especially after the 2024 election. I’ve seen enough. They voluntarily chose the most corrupt, dishonest, criminal, unqualified man on Earth to lead the most powerful nation."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Thanksgiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thanksgiving</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:"The year is 2024 and I have yet to see a major story or report commissioned by a cable news show, newspaper, or magazine that demands that Trump voters go to urban diners and talk to Democratic voters. I have yet to see any finger-wagging paternalism from these establishment leaders asking Trump voters why Donald Trump has yet to crack 50% support from the voting population."~ Wajahat Ali<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Thanksgiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thanksgiving</a> /1<a href="https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/when-will-trump-voters-be-asked-to" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/when-will-trump-voters-be-asked-to</a>

PeachMcDSo. Much. <a href="https://union.place/tags/THIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#THIS</a>My brother cut me out of his life before the pandemic for pointing out how the <a href="https://union.place/tags/BothSidesIsm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BothSidesIsm</a> in a FB post enabled <a href="https://union.place/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> He sd I was probably right but his friends from [ <a href="https://union.place/tags/WI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WI</a> Synod Lutheran] church might be offended 😒🙄Somehow, tho, it's my fault for not being willing to accommodate the breadth of opinion he makes room for 🤦🏻‍♀️ People just don't get why I can't be ok with <a href="https://union.place/tags/MAGAts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGAts</a> & talk about other things than politics This woman gets it ⬇️⬇️⬇️<a href="https://youtu.be/bDM-8zBePu0?si=JoPTsUyAJfvkwiHZ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/bDM-8zBePu0?si=JoPTsUyAJfvkwiHZ</a>

Robert Link<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@atax1a</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@austinkocher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a>

Mark StonemanU.S. newspaper editors practicing bothsidesism after the Nazi terror was well underway in 1933 -- is it baked into the profession? <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewsMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewsMedia</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a>

Mark Stoneman<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/EverythingHasAHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EverythingHasAHistory</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewsMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewsMedia</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BothSidesism</a> #1933 <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazis</a>

M. Heller@emmanuelleskaly@mementomori.sociaYes! So important to be very clear here.<a href="https://digitalcourage.social/@lies_das" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lies_das</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/falsebalancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#falsebalancing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a>

Mattia RigottiAccording to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NZZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NZZ</a>, "Kamala Harris would be a weak president, and Donald Trump a security risk".According to everyone else, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a> is weak <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reporting</a>, and false balance is journalistic malpractice 🤦<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swiss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Switzerland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Schweiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schweiz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suisse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Suisse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Svizzera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Svizzera</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalismus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

Auscandoc<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/Falsebalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Falsebalance</a> – also known as <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a> – occurs when opposing views are represented as being more equally valid than the evidence suggests. At its core, false balance is the misrepresentation of the scientific consensus. And it has become a significant issue.” (2/9)

AuscandocIs <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a> killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) - Healthy Debate <a href="https://healthydebate.ca/2023/08/topic/bothsidesism-scientific-consensus-matters/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://healthydebate.ca/2023/08/topic/bothsidesism-scientific-consensus-matters/</a> “Our information ecosystem has become a massive <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FalseBalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FalseBalance</a> machine. Fringe positions that have already been studied and shown to be wrong are legitimized, given a huge profile and presented as reasonable and respectable alternatives to the existing body of evidence. (1/9) from <a href="https://noc.social/@CaulfieldTim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@CaulfieldTim</a>

Matthias KrämerEs ist geradezu bösartig, zu suggerieren, die Demokraten würden die US-Präsidentschaftswahl auf dieselbe Weise behandeln wie die Republikaner. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bothsidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bothsidesism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/falseequivalency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#falseequivalency</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/10/11/house-democrats-jan-6-election-trump-raskin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2024/10/11/house-democrats-jan-6-election-trump-raskin</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"But when we allow the cult of Both Sides to shape our own minds, ethical judgement and factual investigation disappear, and with them any chance for constitutional order and democracy.Ethical judgement would involve a notion of right and wrong, which the activity of the priests erodes. The worse the evil of one side, the more artfully it must be forgiven, and the more viciously the other side must be berated."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalency</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:"These are, rather, articles of faith. Once accepted, they enable the public performance we wrongly call 'media.' Both-Sideism does not mediate but mystify. Its practitioners, called 'anchors' or 'publishers,' are shamans or priests. Mystifiers. …All shamans do this: they insist that their dogma must be our reality."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSidesism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BothSidesism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FalseEquivalency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FalseEquivalency</a> /2

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