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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com |
one of the most cowardly arguments i keep seeing from columnists is that nothing breaks through with trump supporters, so it’s a waste of time reporting on what he believes. this should be seen as a critically damning failure on behalf of the fourth estate. this means you failed. it’s not a pass.
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Jane Blue
@favcolor.bsky.social
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Our so-called "fourth estate" holds power accountable when it is easy. When it comes to chaos agents and bullies in power or trying to attain it, they freeze up and go limp. Play dead. We can not expect it to save us. The 4th Estate is a fantasy.
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waxmonkey
@waxmonkey.bsky.social
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"public poorly informed, says public informing industry"
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🏳️⚧️ Fiona The Pink Kobold 🏳️⚧️
@scalieshutterbug.bsky.social
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Do they not know that swing voters exist? And that they SHOULDN'T be kept in the dark about the implications of a Biden loss?
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Sam
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also hardcore trump supporters =/= all people who end up voting for trump because he's got an "R" after his name!
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Andy Pearlman
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this is also such an obvious opportunity for comparing and contrasting Biden and Trump in stories for the media that's doing lots of "Biden Old" — conveying to people that Trump is old *and* his brain is melting where Biden is old and therefore gets tired more easily is a really useful both siding.
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@schanoes.bsky.social
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Also—do they not understand that reporting on how fucked up Trump is clarifies the stakes of the election for ALL readers? My mother reads the NYT and WP every day, and when I mentioned it the other day, she’d never heard of Project 2025.
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WeirwoodTreeHugger
@weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social
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This contradicts their claim that they're in the business of reporting and not shaping the news. I asked Brian Stelter on Twitter why the reporting is so asymmetrical if it's not a conspiracy to help Trump win. Unsurprisingly he did not answer.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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The analogy that comes to mind is if the media stopped reporting on the weather because everyone knows it’s hot outside.
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Brooke Pierce
@bpie7.bsky.social
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I see this problem with some rank and file Dems too. It's like they conflate Trump loyalists with undecideds and think the undecideds can't be moved by reminding them how awful Trump is. Which is why many of these Dems are so obsessed with replacing Biden with a magical Johnny Unbeatable now.
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LurkyMcLurk
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They’ve been running non stop Biden is old *and should quit* stories for over a week but “Trump guilty” got what 2-3 days maybe? And none about how it is *objectively very bad* just “do the voters care”
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Brittany Wilson
@sameoldstory.co
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I don’t think they believe this one, honestly. It’s pretty easy to see that while maybe MAGA can’t be moved, low to med propensity voters that lean Biden pretty obviously could be.
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𝕁, the dearly gparted
@checkwithscience.com
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this feels sort of like the "interesting times" Chinese curse but I feel like at some point you are destined for a columnist slot somewhere
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Materialist Gnostic
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And it's not just about Trump's base. Trump will get some swing voters or non-Trump Republicans. They should be reachable by this stuff even if hard core MAGAs aren't.
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