It's important to remember the PAST! and NOT repeat it! Hitler dominated the airways in Nazi Germany, Trump is a 2.0 Hitler! He wants to drag AMERICA 🇺🇸 and trun it's media, into his personal propaganda machine! That's why he attacks anyone who doesn't agree with his CORRUPT BS! In the words of millions of true freedom living Americans, "STAND YOUR GROUND "
The old public media was really just the “licensed media,” licensed to use the public airwaves or formerly respected newspapers. Social media upended what had been a lock on public broadcasting of news and entertainments, and the lucrative income stream that came with it from advertisers. With the intense competition from politically sponsored infotainment sites like Fox “News,”social media, especially podcasts, traditional mainstream media has had to be very sensitive to who could damage them or kill them outright. The choices they are making now have been marching them to irrelevance. We have other choices, other creators, and independent producers. Long live the old broadcasters.
Trump loves the press. He wants constant attention. He just wants to control it all while also being the biggest idiot ever born. We can't have that and we can't have a press allowed to lie. Hungary overcame it. We will too. Faux News and its ilk are a public health crisis.
It doesn't help that so many members of the White House press corps seem to be immune to the concept of "follow-up question." How many times has Trump not answered a direct question, pivots, or goes on one of his idiotic stream-of-conciousness rambles, and then the next reporter in line asks a question on a completely different topic? And why is it not objective journalism for a reporter to challenge him when he opens his mouth and tells one of his endless series of lies? Such as, when he tells us for the millionth time that he won the 2020 election, they could state the fact that "No, you did not, that's a lie." The guy is an authoritarian, doing everything he can turn America into an autocracy, with himself as the King. I wish press corps would treat him as such.
Bezos' "obeying in advance" is exactly what Tim Snyder warns about, and he's right. It's a fast track to tyranny. I consider his WaPo, along with CBS/Paramount (Ellison), Disney/ABC, and Warner/CNN a cancer just as toxic as Fox – possibly more so because they're a little more subtle and slippery. From a behaviorist POV it's a basic reinforcement loop. Organization X capitulates and gets rewarded. Tyrant Y (or DT) notices the response and doubles down on the tactic. And so it goes. At its core it's greed enabled by unbridled capitalism. We need the modern day equivalent of Jefferson's newspaper, in terms of power, sans the skullduggery. I'm sure we can do better than this.
It's important to remember the PAST! and NOT repeat it! Hitler dominated the airways in Nazi Germany, Trump is a 2.0 Hitler! He wants to drag AMERICA 🇺🇸 and trun it's media, into his personal propaganda machine! That's why he attacks anyone who doesn't agree with his CORRUPT BS! In the words of millions of true freedom living Americans, "STAND YOUR GROUND "
The old public media was really just the “licensed media,” licensed to use the public airwaves or formerly respected newspapers. Social media upended what had been a lock on public broadcasting of news and entertainments, and the lucrative income stream that came with it from advertisers. With the intense competition from politically sponsored infotainment sites like Fox “News,”social media, especially podcasts, traditional mainstream media has had to be very sensitive to who could damage them or kill them outright. The choices they are making now have been marching them to irrelevance. We have other choices, other creators, and independent producers. Long live the old broadcasters.
Trump loves the press. He wants constant attention. He just wants to control it all while also being the biggest idiot ever born. We can't have that and we can't have a press allowed to lie. Hungary overcame it. We will too. Faux News and its ilk are a public health crisis.
Who reads the American news? People thru social media are the news reporters nowadays.
It doesn't help that so many members of the White House press corps seem to be immune to the concept of "follow-up question." How many times has Trump not answered a direct question, pivots, or goes on one of his idiotic stream-of-conciousness rambles, and then the next reporter in line asks a question on a completely different topic? And why is it not objective journalism for a reporter to challenge him when he opens his mouth and tells one of his endless series of lies? Such as, when he tells us for the millionth time that he won the 2020 election, they could state the fact that "No, you did not, that's a lie." The guy is an authoritarian, doing everything he can turn America into an autocracy, with himself as the King. I wish press corps would treat him as such.
Bezos' "obeying in advance" is exactly what Tim Snyder warns about, and he's right. It's a fast track to tyranny. I consider his WaPo, along with CBS/Paramount (Ellison), Disney/ABC, and Warner/CNN a cancer just as toxic as Fox – possibly more so because they're a little more subtle and slippery. From a behaviorist POV it's a basic reinforcement loop. Organization X capitulates and gets rewarded. Tyrant Y (or DT) notices the response and doubles down on the tactic. And so it goes. At its core it's greed enabled by unbridled capitalism. We need the modern day equivalent of Jefferson's newspaper, in terms of power, sans the skullduggery. I'm sure we can do better than this.