I have lost compete respect for the media and their false equivalency. I believe they are keeping this shabby drama going just to earn their paychecks. What would happen if they printed and spoke truth? End of drama--except for low-information, ignorant, gullible voters, and MAGAs.
Yes lets keep Genocide as the main focal point cause so many Palestinians are going thru living hell cause of our policies to kill them rather than stop arming Israel.
Don't let anyone forget that trump is an unserious person who poses a serious threat because his followers pose a serious threat. They may represent only a third or less of the electorate but they adore him more than they love the USA, conservatism, the Republican party, their neighbors or any deity.
The first time Trump won I remember surprising friends and family with my consistent rants about how “the mainstream media” had done this to us. Folks thought I was overstating it. I disagreed. They normalized him as he campaigned then as president (I will never forgive/forget them tripping over themselves to call that maniac “presidential” whenever he used a complete sentence) and they normalize him now. If you read the NY Times you would have NO IDEA how unhinged the man is, how fascistic his policies and associates are, and most of all, thar he is one in a number of transnational criminals posing as politicians (as Sarah Kendzior often reminds us). These days I read (nay, skim!) said media and pretend I am a scholar in the future trying to find accurate reporting about this time—it’s just not there in the mainstream. This is a disgrace and has been since 2015 and it’s worse now. Sure, the end of media as we know it and Trump was/is a kind of perfect storm but real, ethical, independent journalists have weathered it, keep doing their work, at great cost. The corporate and legacy media have not. Their lack of courage and professional ethics in these times is so depressing and so deeply antidemocratic.
Many years ago a very smart man named Neil Postman wrote a book about the US media called Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman had some unusual notions, but about the media he was spot on. In 2016 the corporate media showed that it had no idea how to cover a norm-obliterating candidate like Trump, they couldn't contend with his avalanche of lies, but Trump was good for the bottom line. There's no excuse now. Trump's latest stunts cannot be normalized because they are so insane, yet the corporate media is doing just that, day after day. It's disgusting. The NYT is a major culprit. Paper of Record? Please.
I would really like someone to do some data analysis of how accurate polls have been over the last 20 yrs. I am now of the opinion that current polls are wrong wrong wrong. I don't think this election will be close, I think it'll be close to a landslide for Harris. The only unknown is electoral votes vs popular votes, as they live in different universes. Media lives according to polls, and they're fooling themselves with their CYA vision of how to cover candidates.
The more you talk about him and bring him on TV in our face , the more you are helping his propaganda and the potential of his election as a familiar face for a potential a crook of a president to the ignorant and others of his clan!
Medhi, the same thing is happening n Canada with respect to our journalists and the right wing. Only this week, we found out he the local papers on our east coast were bought up by PostMedia, primarily owned y right wing Americans. I will be sharing this information with my pro democracy friends here. Btw, thank goodness for Canadian Daniel Dale, but we wish we had not lost him to CNN!
Keep in mind that when rounding up people begins it will not be done carefully and there will be no one to go to and explain that a mistake was made when one was taken in. You are not safe even if you are MAGA. Purging one’s own followers is part of the process.
and what is our current governments in USA an Brittian doing to journalists that report honestaly of the way crimes in Faza: to jail they go. So who;s worst my friend Trump or Biden/Harris. and the MSM
I have lost compete respect for the media and their false equivalency. I believe they are keeping this shabby drama going just to earn their paychecks. What would happen if they printed and spoke truth? End of drama--except for low-information, ignorant, gullible voters, and MAGAs.
The media needs to stop supporting genocide which Harris supports.
Yes lets keep Genocide as the main focal point cause so many Palestinians are going thru living hell cause of our policies to kill them rather than stop arming Israel.
Don't let anyone forget that trump is an unserious person who poses a serious threat because his followers pose a serious threat. They may represent only a third or less of the electorate but they adore him more than they love the USA, conservatism, the Republican party, their neighbors or any deity.
Keep up the good work Mehdi, and don’t feel lonely on the path for the truth as not many journalists are walking it .👍🏽
The first time Trump won I remember surprising friends and family with my consistent rants about how “the mainstream media” had done this to us. Folks thought I was overstating it. I disagreed. They normalized him as he campaigned then as president (I will never forgive/forget them tripping over themselves to call that maniac “presidential” whenever he used a complete sentence) and they normalize him now. If you read the NY Times you would have NO IDEA how unhinged the man is, how fascistic his policies and associates are, and most of all, thar he is one in a number of transnational criminals posing as politicians (as Sarah Kendzior often reminds us). These days I read (nay, skim!) said media and pretend I am a scholar in the future trying to find accurate reporting about this time—it’s just not there in the mainstream. This is a disgrace and has been since 2015 and it’s worse now. Sure, the end of media as we know it and Trump was/is a kind of perfect storm but real, ethical, independent journalists have weathered it, keep doing their work, at great cost. The corporate and legacy media have not. Their lack of courage and professional ethics in these times is so depressing and so deeply antidemocratic.
Republicans have successfully trained the media to walk on a leash, sit up, roll over and beg for an exclusive. That's a good boy!
Many years ago a very smart man named Neil Postman wrote a book about the US media called Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman had some unusual notions, but about the media he was spot on. In 2016 the corporate media showed that it had no idea how to cover a norm-obliterating candidate like Trump, they couldn't contend with his avalanche of lies, but Trump was good for the bottom line. There's no excuse now. Trump's latest stunts cannot be normalized because they are so insane, yet the corporate media is doing just that, day after day. It's disgusting. The NYT is a major culprit. Paper of Record? Please.
I would really like someone to do some data analysis of how accurate polls have been over the last 20 yrs. I am now of the opinion that current polls are wrong wrong wrong. I don't think this election will be close, I think it'll be close to a landslide for Harris. The only unknown is electoral votes vs popular votes, as they live in different universes. Media lives according to polls, and they're fooling themselves with their CYA vision of how to cover candidates.
The best statement ever: "We have to be bias to the truth!"
Thank you, Zeteo!
The more you talk about him and bring him on TV in our face , the more you are helping his propaganda and the potential of his election as a familiar face for a potential a crook of a president to the ignorant and others of his clan!
Bullseye!!!
Medhi, the same thing is happening n Canada with respect to our journalists and the right wing. Only this week, we found out he the local papers on our east coast were bought up by PostMedia, primarily owned y right wing Americans. I will be sharing this information with my pro democracy friends here. Btw, thank goodness for Canadian Daniel Dale, but we wish we had not lost him to CNN!
Keep in mind that when rounding up people begins it will not be done carefully and there will be no one to go to and explain that a mistake was made when one was taken in. You are not safe even if you are MAGA. Purging one’s own followers is part of the process.
Whoa! That's truly startling and very likely to be the case. I'll keep that in mind!!!
ah yes: please continue the softballs at Harris: but it’s the media at fault for promoting Trump !
Stammer went from human rights to refusing to apologize for the colombian shot to death on the tube : power corrupts
all the same
and what is our current governments in USA an Brittian doing to journalists that report honestaly of the way crimes in Faza: to jail they go. So who;s worst my friend Trump or Biden/Harris. and the MSM
Thank You Zeteo!
This is a great conversation.
Thanks as always.