We Know One Big Loser in This Election: The Mainstream Media
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This year we also had the EU, Indian, UK and French elections and the total cost was less than 2 Billion.
So the big underlying question is what are Americans even getting out of all that spending? Better quality journos? Better quality politicians? Or just better spin doctors, consultants, fund raisers, talking heads?
The whole machinery, thanks to the amount of cash pouring in, has gone off the rails in terms of, no limit exploitation of people's fears. Shows what power the media as a whole has on people's well being.
I appricate your response, don't know if you will see this. On one hand I like HN because comments do not turn into fights, but on the other hand, I check the comments every few weeks and I miss stuff like this.
Best.
CBS: 4,963,000
ABC: 4,441,000
NBC: 3,703,000
Fox News: 3,253,000
https://www.nationalmediaspots.com/stats-us-cable-broadcast-...
And yet somehow there is no mention there of Biden's diminished mental capacity until after it was too late.
Could it be that the major news outlets were twisting themselves into knots to appease the right, or that they actually weren't.
For example, The dramatic edits on the CBS 60 minutes interview with Harris would seem to indicate that they actually were trying to do something else
60 minutes edits all their interviews. If Trump accepted their invite, his interview would have been edited as well. Would that have been wrong?
But what really gets me is the NYT. Man, they bent over backwards to normalize & sane-wash the craziest shit. Michael Tae Sweeney just turned it into his hole bit, but boy was he ever right: "the media covers Trump like this because they want him to win."
We have colossal problems with absolutely deranged things going on in the far right media & online streams/radio, blending conspiracy and disinformation together, just gleefully outdoing each other for hotter own the libs takes. We keep saying low information voters, but it's only true sometimes; it's just as much people being fed the wildest craziest shit. And rather than actually report some of the wild shit going on straight from the presidents mouth, like the NYT could do, it's all re-parsed into, oh, hahaha old man Trump is at it again with his somewhat divisive talk!
For a while on Bluesky there was a Trump headline translator, where people would put real or imagined whores in one side, and the NYT headline on the other. Too too many were real examples of absolutely crazy making-palpable bending-over-backwards efforts to help out. It just feels like there's no one at all to report accurately.
and René Descartes on the other?
Apologies!
Idk what blame means to you but this looks an awful lot like blame to me
I really dont understand this "sane wash" angle. They literally were calling him hitler, fascist, blah blah right up to the election.
Go ahead and downvote. If you want to keep believing that everyone to the right of Mao is too stupid to recognize that the NYT and its fellow msm outlets are trying to manipulate them with nearly every story, go ahead.
As opposed to what? America is a wholly liberal nation. Including the marginally right! Who embodies liberalism more than trump? Americans are liberal narcissists that care more about opinions and the right to be an asshole than they care about other people. The only difference is that some of them care about trying to grant abortions and others want to not grant abortions. But all care about bullshit rather than shit that matters, like rent and wages and housing development. There is no political constituency demanding economic rights, for instance, nor any party that stands for workers. There is no party that calls out the government for catering to corporations over citizens as the american government clearly does.
I mean if you want to call conservatives "fascists" you can, but fascism is just a degenerate form of liberalism and it's not like the democrats are any less fascist than republicans. It's all right-wing bullshit that puts aesthetics and comfort ahead of anything that people should actually care about.
I guess you could call the rest of the world "communist" if you think the democrats are to the left of liberalism but who would take you seriously
Just googling "site:nytimes.com trump hitler" I didn't see anything saying straight Trump is Hitler although they are willing to say point out that JD Vance questioned if he was "America's Hitler" which seems fair enough to me. (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/magazine/jd-vance-intervi...)
Dunno if you have a link for them saying that or maybe it's unreliable right wing sources saying the NYT says Trump is Hitler?
The press often does a great job of shielding those in power from reality, and that's what it did in most of the Biden term. Now, I also disagree with the other extreme view that press needs to be positioned so against the establishment that it conflates facts with fiction. Not taking the side of either ruling or opposition but pushing for society's interest is the real job of press.