This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It’s part of why it was the media’s fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
Don’t forget the morons who didn’t vote for the dipshit because of their virtue signaling about ONE war happening across the world while completely ignoring the impact the orange doofus had on the OTHER one.
This is why news outlets should belong to us, not to billionaires. Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, John Henry owning The Boston Globe, Stanley Hubbard owning multiple local news outlets, Lee Enterprises owning 75 local newspapers, these are all HUGE problems.
A lot of those media journalists you suggest don’t have an obligation to journalistic responsibility … they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders
I generally listen to their audio stuff pretty religiously, and podcasts like The Daily were fairly reliably reporting on Trump’s March toward fascism. They would even straight up use the work “fascism.”
That said, the NYT makes a lot of stuff, so maybe I missed out on something. I feel like their content adequately spooked me about what Trump’s plans were, and they motivated me to travel to a swing state to door knock.
I listen to the daily and even now they still use euphemisms for Trump’s lies instead of calling them lies. I understand it’s because you can’t know intent but it’s still annoying.
That actually reminds me, my point should be expanded. Only a bit though it’s weed o clock.
What was most amazing to me was the freedom they seem to have given to opinion columnists that did call things out. Just watching rss feeds on Lemmy every day and night on Lemmy showed a crazy contrast between opinion and the edited/published bulk. Which is kinda good and normal, the surprise is they weren’t washing opinion too maybe like WaPo.
Noooooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It’s part of why it was the media’s fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
I am personally enjoying the fall of the American empire. At least for now. Until it starts invading everyone to try and prevent the inevitable.
Don’t forget the morons who didn’t vote for the dipshit because of their virtue signaling about ONE war happening across the world while completely ignoring the impact the orange doofus had on the OTHER one.
Top media outlets are owned by the 1% And so…
I don’t get how people don’t understand the role the media should play.
It should simply shine light on the truth and report the facts.
Instead they play politics, and abdicate that duty in favor of shock and schlock pieces.
If the media simply reported on Trump’s policy discussions factually, everyone would have seen this coming, to add to your point.
This is why news outlets should belong to us, not to billionaires. Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, John Henry owning The Boston Globe, Stanley Hubbard owning multiple local news outlets, Lee Enterprises owning 75 local newspapers, these are all HUGE problems.
Yeah but advertising and profits. Duh.
If we had state restrictions on media and it’s incentives that would obviously be worse. /s
A lot of those media journalists you suggest don’t have an obligation to journalistic responsibility … they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders
Who, aside from the MAGA media (Fox, Sinclair, OAN, etc) and CNBC dumbasses hoping for tax cuts, reported on his policies being sane?
The New York Times jerked milquetoast over the whole nation. For one.
I generally listen to their audio stuff pretty religiously, and podcasts like The Daily were fairly reliably reporting on Trump’s March toward fascism. They would even straight up use the work “fascism.”
That said, the NYT makes a lot of stuff, so maybe I missed out on something. I feel like their content adequately spooked me about what Trump’s plans were, and they motivated me to travel to a swing state to door knock.
I listen to the daily and even now they still use euphemisms for Trump’s lies instead of calling them lies. I understand it’s because you can’t know intent but it’s still annoying.
That actually reminds me, my point should be expanded. Only a bit though it’s weed o clock.
What was most amazing to me was the freedom they seem to have given to opinion columnists that did call things out. Just watching rss feeds on Lemmy every day and night on Lemmy showed a crazy contrast between opinion and the edited/published bulk. Which is kinda good and normal, the surprise is they weren’t washing opinion too maybe like WaPo.