“Broadcast news and major papers failed to cover report of possible Egyptian bribery involving Trump”
From: @JoshuaHolland
https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/112929132389582278
“Broadcast news and major papers failed to cover report of possible Egyptian bribery involving Trump”
From: @JoshuaHolland
https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/112929132389582278
In the U.S., an ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice.
AP reports the August 2023 raid on the publisher’s home upset his 98-year-old mother, who died the next day of a heart attack.
Seriously, the NYT has to be intentionally trolling us at this point.
Imagine being a reporter at the “paper of record” and writing with a straight face that a “large swath of the public” gave a flying fuck through a rolling donut about Obama’s tan suit. And then quoting Lou Dobbs.
Interesting that WaPo gives numbers for registered voters—with #Harris up by four points—noting that it isn’t a statistically significant lead given the margin of error, while ABC reports that she’s up by 6 among likely voters in their joint poll, which is.
#media #polling #trump #Election2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/18/harris-trump-post-abc-ipsos-poll/
This piece says that Alison Esposito has made a name for herself in conservative media by talking about law and order and the "border crisis."
Not mentioned is that NYC paid out $120K to settle lawsuits against her for abuse when she was a cop, including assaulting and handcuffing an infant and falsely arresting some church ladies for shopping while black.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-republicans-house-of-representatives-new-york/
Mark Knoller’s been around for a long time. He’s covered every POTUS since Gerry Ford. He absolutely knows that there’s a tradition of newly nominated tickets giving joint interviews after their party’s convention.
He’s just a fucking hack. Has been for a long time.
Forgive the X link but it does seem that the Beyoncé rumor was started by Dems, including some connected to the WH.
Can't say for sure that it was to get more eyeballs on Kamala's speech and ultimately drive Trump further over the edge by juicing her ratings but I hope it was.
I want them to get how our attention economy works and be just a little ruthless in their efforts to kick Trump's ass and save our democracy. Stakes are too high for niceties.
Harris is getting the Al Gore treatment from Alex Thompson and the rest of the sadly influential Axios crew.
He’s almost single-handedly invented the narrative that “she's presenting a different ideology than four years ago” with a constant drumbeat of cheap, misleading gotcha pieces. It’s just the most pathetic hackery.
#media #HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024
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#uspol #elections #2024election #kamala #KamalaHarris #women #gender #comic #cartoon #media
It was actually the Nebraska *Junior* Chamber of Commerce. Impeach!
This is an Axios reporter promoting and lending legitimacy to a moronic gotcha from The Washington Free Bacon.
🔥Tenet Media is no more.
The conservative media network folded Thursday night, just one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing it of being 💥funded by Russian state-controlled media, accordingto Tenet Media field reporter Tayler Hansen.
⚠️The indictment accused Tenet and its founders of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today as part of ❌“a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.
The company’s founders, Canadian #Lauren #Chen and her husband, #Liam #Donovon, have not yet commented publicly on the scandal.
The fallout from the alleged propaganda scheme lost Chen her broadcasting gig with another far-right media group, #Blaze #Media, which has already wiped episodes of her podcast from Spotify and deleted her contributor page from its website.
Blaze Media CEO #Tyler #Cardon told Semafor that the conservative anchor had been “terminated.”
🆘The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.
“I have been contacted by the FBI as a potential victim of a crime,” Pool postedon X on Thursday. “The FBI believes I have information relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and have requested a voluntary interview. I will be offering my assistance in this matter.”
⭐️YouTube also wiped Tenet Media’s content from its platform “after careful review” following the indictment, telling NBC Newsthat its decision to erase the channel and its affiliates was part of “ongoing efforts to combat coordinated influence operations.”
Tenet is just the latest flavor of #Russian-#backed #misinformation campaign that has plagued American politics,
but it is a sign of just how sizable the foreign country’s budget is in 2024 for influencing the November election.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185686/donald-trump-tenet-media-russia-scheme
Jesus fucking Christ, NYT, was the Holocaust also an affordable housing plan?
These people have lost their damn minds.
#media #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #fascism #immigration #trump
#The19th wanted to ‘normalize’ #women in #power. In 2024, it’s dreaming bigger.
The nonprofit newsroom, entering its fifth year, is making new hires & planning to grow an endowment.
The birth of the 19th came in the wake of #HillaryClinton’s 2016 electoral loss — & a growing frustration that traditional #news #media wasn’t equipped to cover women in #political life.
#Equity #Women #LGBTQ+ #gender #journalism #politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/19th-news-site-ramshaw-lasharah-bunting/
without total control of media publishing, broadcasting, distribution & trading, there are no #techbro American billionaires; and without American #tech #billionaires, there is no American Fascism as we know it today.
if billionaires have no right to exist; neither their #media companies as we know them — the #FAANG & corporate media.
to kill American fascism you need to kill American corporate media as it is off and online.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
Promote whoever’s doing NYMag’s social media immediately…
I am liking how this time around a lot of people are outright calling the media out on their parroting Telegram's PR bullshit about how "encrypted, secure, private" the service is.
(it is not.)
As in, not just writing about how Telegram is neither of these things, but very clearly pointing a finger at the media and going: "stop spreading this misinformation, you are putting people in danger."
Keep this pressure on!
"The #media completely blowing the election coverage is allowing #Harris to run as the 1st post-media president
Instead of meeting a threat to democracy, careerist clickbaiters have both-sidesed, fact-checked trivia, and asked pointless questions
2024's massive media fail"
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵1/...
🎁 #GiftLink https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/media-elections-dnc-kamala-harris-military-20240827.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
How many two-time popular vote losers who attempted a crackpot coup d'état have been elected, Marc?
Six of the 49 Veeps who preceded Harris have gone on to win the WH. “Sitting” is doing a lot of ̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ work here.
What is the big flip-flop? Harris said she’d sign the bipartisan #immigration bill* #Biden negotiated and #Trump killed, which has, among other things, a provision to use funds previously allocated for a wall under Trump but not yet spent.
*It’s a shitty bill but this is an election year
#media #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-flip-flops-border-wall
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#uspol #USPolitics #cartoon #comic #TimWalz #media #journalism #rural
John Stoehr turns a cold eye on media malfeasance in letting Trump off the hook again and again and sanewashing his nonsense babble, since
"If he’s unfit to communicate, he’s unfit to serve."
And the media have an obligation to tell us this, not to function as "Trump’s assisted living program" and impose coherence, order, and meaning on meaningless spates of words.
John Stoehr
https://www.editorialboard.com/the-press-corps-is-trumps-assisted-living-program/
👀 Per Mary Trump of unfortunate birth.
Apparently, he was trying to connect his #lies about high bacon prices with his lies about wind energy. He keeps telling these easily debunked lies because, as Daniel Dale, chronicler of #Donalds mendacity, pointed out, “By virtue of shameless perseverance, [Donald] often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular #falsehood.” In other words, while Donald never gets tired of lying, the #media gets tired of doing its job.