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Literally Lügenpresse. People need to get familiar with Hitler’s playbook, cause that’s the reality we’re experiencing right now.
Oh we are familiar
If the other serious media have integrity, they should also remove themselves from any official event in the name of free speech (and future protection as that could happen to them later).
This is the only way to treat this kind of dangerous behavior.
Hell, they did in the past when FOX News was banned back in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies#Obama_administration_conflict_with_Fox_News
They relatively recent consider themselves not as news, but entertainment
Only relatively.
Sadly, it is not just Fox News that has made the claim that their shows are not news. In the same year, Rachel Maddow’s lawyers successfully argued that her program is also not news.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/23/san-diego-judge-dismisses-oans-10-million-defamati/
This is a bit of the classic “both sides being the same” argument. The first article you linked even calls it out.
In the Fox case, Carlson was presenting his own narrative, not even one extrapolating from known facts.
Maddow was like “hey this journalist is working for Putin and writing for OAN. OAN is Russian propaganda.” When in reality, the journalist in question wrote for Sputnik News, which is affiliated with the Russian government. Granted it is a bit of a stretch to say all of OAN is Russian propaganda.
Carlson, on the other hand, just completely made up a story about Karen McDougal blackmailing Trump. A completely made up story.
So yeah, I wouldn’t go saying both sides are the same here.
And they were both telling the unvarnished truth for once. Billionaire-owned media aren’t reliable sources for news.
Absolutely. It all started with Ted Turner and CNN. He very obviously viewed news as entertainment. Every story, no matter how small, was announced as Breaking News.
Good. There’s just about nothing useful that comes from the White House press brief. It’s all propaganda as far as the eye can see.
There’s a video where the press secretary basically says they will ban everybody that is telling ‘lies’. I didn’t know that asking questions as the press could now be considered lies but here we are. What a timeline we ended up in.
There’s a video where the press secretary basically says they will ban everybody that is telling ‘lies’.
He said he will ban Trump???
Silly you. Trump holds the power to define facts and reality. It is literally impossible for him to lie. (Book of St. Donny, Chapter 4.12, probably)
She.
If you don’t propagate their lies, then they’ll call you a liar.
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.” - 1984
the… remarkable… thing about this is the Trump administration probably thinks they’re winning this.
Well…they kind of are. We are not seeing the kind of push and pull we saw last time trump was in office. We’re not really seeing the compounding buffoonery and constant chaos of an evil yet highly disorganized and stupid and largely solitary extremist right wing government.
We are seeing a largely accepted—if nothing else, ignored—well-funded, focused group of absolute death mongers who are powering this much larger boat with trump as the flag on top, but an elite crew of Chistofascists turning coal (yes, it’s a coal powered boat) into much more precise and damaging takeover of every single lever of power. And this is just one in a fleet of these types of ships taking off all around the world. This far right surge is not an isolated thing. This is happening worldwide and they are fucking ready to put their plans into action.
While we all took four years to decompress, they were becoming a much more ruthless and serious fascist machine. They are primed to make some scary moves and they don’t have nearly the amount of big dollar pushback and spotlight on them. They are manipulating the spotlight to focus on flashy trump nonsense while some truly fiendish motherfuckers are doing everything they can to fuck things up christofascismo style.
Be very much more worried about things that aren’t the “gulf of America.”
