"Part of the reason they’re unaware is their own fault. They should be aware. It’s a luxury to be unaware of what’s happening in the government. ...

"The legacy media isn’t telling them what the threat level is. And that’s the thing that I think I have the most problem with."

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #destruction #chaos #media #MediaFail
/9

"The press needs to stop treating politics like a game of electoral mathematics and start treating it like what it is: a serious business with real consequences for democracy and human lives. When the president starts talking like a mad emperor, that's the story, not how many House seats his delusions might hypothetically affect."

#Musk #Trump #fascism #media #complicity #lies #MediaFail #NewYorkTimes
/3

"When the New York Times treats talk of annexing Canada as just another policy proposal to analyze, it's failing its fundamental duty to inform the public about what's really happening."

~ Parker Molloy

#Musk #Trump #fascism #media #complicity #lies #MediaFail #NewYorkTimes
/2

https://www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analyzing-trumps-unhinged-ideas

@junesim63
And german media: Trump just won

"If you are old enough to remember the first time Trump came to power, then you’ve seen this movie before. During his tenure, President Barack Obama was constantly besieged by the worst pundits in America for his failure to bring Republicans—who were at the time following Mitch McConnell’s monomaniacal pursuit of obstruction at any cost—to the table to support broad bipartisan initiatives."

#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/4

"The media will soon be leaving their fetish for bipartisanship, compromise, and comity behind since the only people on whom they ever impose these standards—Democrats—will be out of power."

~ Jason Linkins

#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/3

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=861dc9bd7f4e7dd3cccd534d0ae2a2e9.1147&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"The vast majority of mainstream media pundits, and the most prominent political party analysts are simply ill-equipped to speak or report with knowledge, context, sophistication, or authority about how race shapes American politics and electoral outcomes.

~ Sherrilynn Ifill

And because of this, corporate media are perfectly happy to pave the way for fascism.

#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/2

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased-b5f

Timothy Burke looks at the fatuous pablum "American public writers on partisan division" have fed us for some years now — looking at you, corporate media — and opines:

"It must be nice to be so continuously wrong and yet still be welcome on the editorial pages, the Sunday talk shows, and so on."

#media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump
/4

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/trump-essentials-7-the-army-of-the

"We are here because of a system-wide failure to hold Trump accountable and mount an effective defense against the onslaught of authoritarian minority rule. The much vaunted 'guardrails' have failed spectacularly."

~ Thomas Zimmer

And not least among those failed guardrails are very plainly the corporate media. If any of us doubted who they are, they've taken the mask off.

#media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump
/2

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-stakes-in-this-election-are

"This entire election has been disproportionately viewed through the lens of polling that has deliberately weighted to ensure that polling doesn't miss Trump voters, but not (as far as we know) weighted to adjust for post-Dobbs polling misses.

And then Ann Selzer came along."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #polls #AnnSelzer #women
/6

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/03/male-pollsters-shocked-shocked-when-a-woman-pollster-discovers-women-voters/

"In the eyes of those who control the platforms of communication, and in the halls of power, and in the minds of many comfortable and privileged people, it is a far less divisive act to hold a Nazi rally, crammed with racism and hatred and bigotry and Nazi speakers delivering Nazi slogans and Nazi intentions to enact Nazi policies, than it is to refer to such a thing as 'a Nazi rally.'"

~ A.R. Moxon

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #fascism #Nazi
/5

https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/

Scott Dworkin provides a rundown of the "top five absolute worst failures by the Press" during this election cycle — lying for Trump, biased coverage, undermining Harris, refusing to blame Trump for chaos, and misleading headlines.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #MediaAretheProblem
/4

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-press-failed-america-this-election

"It is designed to obscure the differences between Kamala Harris & Donald Trump, a man who routinely calls people 'vermin' & threatens 'bloody' mass deportation of tens of millions of people, including American citizens, & uses violent imagery to describe women who dare oppose him & threatens to jail Americans for exercising their first Amendment rights to criticize their government & publicly expresses his admiration for foreign dictators & privately praises Adolf Hitler."

#MediaFail #Trump
/3

"For two days with just a week remaining in an election in which Joe Biden is not running, the nation’s leading news companies pretended this utterly irrelevant and innocuous Biden comment was the biggest political story in all the land. ...

All of this over an apostrophe, or its absence.

This is disorienting bullshit — intentionally disorienting bullshit."

~ Jamison Foser

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #MediaAretheProblem
/2

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/long-walk-home-trump-fascism-media-distraction