• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Media owned by billionaires doing stenography for a billionaire so that trillionaire bank funds continue to pump cheap cash into the bloated tech sector.

    Too bad everyone else is out of money. I guess that means you can always slut yourself out to the local aristocracy to pay your bill. Or join the thug squads tasked with making america white again. Or maybe you can get FoodPoints by posting We Love Dear Leader videos to TwitchTok.

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    16 days ago

    This matches my thinking. Mostly it just reinforces that most reporters are… I don’t want to say lazy, I’m sure they work hard. Incredibly credulous? Passive observers to the point of enabling? Again and again they frame articles from the point of view of the first person to make a claim, regardless of facts, and only report in a he-said, she-said way instead of applying even the most basic analysis.

    So because Trump and his coven are constantly saying things, every article seems to begin with an assertion he or one of them made, then discusses the statement in context, then follow it with a counter-reaction somewhere near the middle-bottom. Maybe it says it’s “legally untested” or similar, but at no point does it go one level deeper and report on what we’d expect to see if the intention behind it were true.

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      15 days ago

      Compounded by Fox and the right wing mediasphere not shying away at all from providing their “analysis”. By not immediately and directly countering lies with fact reporters are lending credibility to the lies.