I allocate a good share of blame to what we call the “Mainstream Media”. For decades they have given up on actual research, digging and fact checking. Instead they opted for Celebrity Journalism (•”Tomorrow I have an exclusive interview with …..”). All those interviews do is give the experienced politician a forum to repeat lies to a stenographer who won’t go beyond a tepid challenge for fear of losing future Access. As a result right-wing lies go unchallenged by facts and the right wing perpetrators get an added forum in the MSM to reinforce them.
It is really interesting how so many of the folks who were so worked up about "Election Integrity" in 2020 were the greatest threats to actual Election Integrity... and probably still are.
Steve Bannon has already advised Trump to declare victory on election night so that any returns after his declaration of victory will appear to be suspicious. He did this 2020 saying that "We were ahead big time and then all of a sudden the numbers were changed!" So we can expect the same this time around. FOXNews will not make the same mistake as they did last time by being first calling a swing state for Harris (even if true) so as not to anger Trump.
But, really, is there any effective method of countering the bogus narratives that will inevitably come?
The best I think we can hope for is that traditional media will (try) to stick to truth and reality and give as little air space and attention to Trump/MAGA counterfactuals. The rest of the siloed media sources are going to do what they usually do--- and of course no attention should be paid to anything on the antisocial media platforms. As Dave Chappell observed: "Twitter is not a real place." And that goes double for Xwitter.
Thx for this, Renee. We need to prepare for more of this today and in the days ahead: ‘A deliberate effort to demonize fact-checks, content labeling, and platform responses to viral lies as a “censorship-industrial complex.”’ As frustrated as I get, I shared this on a pod yesterday and it gives me some small comfort:
“Complaints are every where heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” - James Madison, Federalist 10 (1788)
I allocate a good share of blame to what we call the “Mainstream Media”. For decades they have given up on actual research, digging and fact checking. Instead they opted for Celebrity Journalism (•”Tomorrow I have an exclusive interview with …..”). All those interviews do is give the experienced politician a forum to repeat lies to a stenographer who won’t go beyond a tepid challenge for fear of losing future Access. As a result right-wing lies go unchallenged by facts and the right wing perpetrators get an added forum in the MSM to reinforce them.
Our Journalists have failed us.
You’ve had journalists in your corner for decades and you still got bodied. It’s your fault, not journalists. You.
"Cultural elites" provoked... nothing. Remember, you chose this. Grow up, little boy Jack.
P.S. Enjoy power, hahaha
I don’t know why you’re laughing, unless at your own broken English. You lose, I win.
That would be a little more threatening if you could read English properly.
Bless your heart. Go ahead and keep talking, it is vaguely amusing.
This is a great listen on that string of thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUqur6hZvKg&t=5s
It is really interesting how so many of the folks who were so worked up about "Election Integrity" in 2020 were the greatest threats to actual Election Integrity... and probably still are.
It seems that the American people have now voted with a resounding voice and the Left has no choice but to listen and learn from it.
Can someone check in on the Unpopulists peeps? They good?
Related:
https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/there-is-no-censorship-industrial
Not true … we’re ready to fight as the Lawyers who did it in 2020 are ready to go again. They just won’t have guns, that’s someone else’s job.
Wonderful
Steve Bannon has already advised Trump to declare victory on election night so that any returns after his declaration of victory will appear to be suspicious. He did this 2020 saying that "We were ahead big time and then all of a sudden the numbers were changed!" So we can expect the same this time around. FOXNews will not make the same mistake as they did last time by being first calling a swing state for Harris (even if true) so as not to anger Trump.
But, really, is there any effective method of countering the bogus narratives that will inevitably come?
The best I think we can hope for is that traditional media will (try) to stick to truth and reality and give as little air space and attention to Trump/MAGA counterfactuals. The rest of the siloed media sources are going to do what they usually do--- and of course no attention should be paid to anything on the antisocial media platforms. As Dave Chappell observed: "Twitter is not a real place." And that goes double for Xwitter.
Thx for this, Renee. We need to prepare for more of this today and in the days ahead: ‘A deliberate effort to demonize fact-checks, content labeling, and platform responses to viral lies as a “censorship-industrial complex.”’ As frustrated as I get, I shared this on a pod yesterday and it gives me some small comfort:
“Complaints are every where heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” - James Madison, Federalist 10 (1788)
We’ll survive 2024.