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#mediafail

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William Lindsey :toad:

"CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson have a much-hyped book to sell and a Pulitzer to win.

Their friends across legacy media are willing and eager accomplices - because they have current and future books to sell too and it is a very incestuous and cynical business."

~ Ron Filipkowski


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meidasplus.com/p/dems-must-not

Meidas+ · Dems Must Not Let Media Make 2026/28 About BidenBy Ron Filipkowski
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the news. Mainstream journalists are depriving their audiences of crucial context. ...

The elite reporters who cover Trump still dutifully report what he says. Then they point out that others disagree. And they think they’ve done their job."

~ Dan Froomkin


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criticalread.substack.com/p/th

Press Watch · The truth about Donald Trump rarely makes it into the newsBy Dan Froomkin
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William Lindsey :toad:

Wajahat Ali reminds us how the corporate media are continuing to behave as the clown-show fascism (Michael Tomasky's term) rolls out:

"At the pathetic and groveling White House Correspondents’ Dinner over the weekend, the mainstream media’s remoras assembled to engage in mutual verbal fellatio and enjoy the 'glam' during the ascent of fascism."


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thelefthook.substack.com/p/100

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali · 100 Days of American Self-DestructionBy THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali
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Harold Jarche

CBC reports: "By all accounts, 48-year-old Lynette Buhler was the picture of health. The single mother dedicated her life to her children & the elderly patients she cared for in her job at a nursing home ...

But in late February, Buhler, who lived in Qu'Appelle — about 57 kilometres east of Regina — picked up a flu bug & was sick enough she had to miss her final two shifts at the Regina care home where she worked."

But no indication if she was vaccinated.

#MediaFail

cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewa

CBCInfluenza blamed in deaths of Regina-area women, ages 33 and 48, last month | CBC NewsInfluenza surveillance program shows five people died provincewide in March from the virus
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The central feature in the U.S.—a cult of personality in which the erratic, chaotic, and unhinged leader runs roughshod over its people—has nothing to do with Democrats. We cannot blame the small 'd' democrats (or the large 'D' ones either) for extremism or intransigence simply for insisting their fellow countrymen recognize objective reality and respect democratic norms."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"If you didn’t know better you would think 'polarization' descended from on high, a plague for which no one party is responsible. This deliberate obfuscation of our political situation suits the corporate media’s obsession with moral equivalence and contrived balance."

~ Jennifer Rubin


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contrarian.substack.com/p/word

The Contrarian · Words & Phrases We Can Do WithoutBy Jennifer Rubin
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