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"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
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"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
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newsletter.tnr.comThe media is ready to hold Trump to a lower standardA weekly accounting of the...
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"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
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https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased-b5f
Sherrilyn’s Newsletter · Why Have Race and Gender Been Erased from Analysis of the Presidential Election? Part 2
Josh Marshall speaks plain truth:
"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic Party. This doesn’t mean every journalist individually, of course. But the establishment media generally — the Times, the Post, the Journal, CNN and the business news channels, all of them…."
#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
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TPM - Talking Points Memo · Wired for the GOP
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"Like I said, a successful relationship requires reciprocity otherwise it’s simply an exercise in abuse.
After 9 years, I’m done.
I have no desire to reach out to or understand any Trump voter, especially after the 2024 election. I’ve seen enough. They voluntarily chose the most corrupt, dishonest, criminal, unqualified man on Earth to lead the most powerful nation."
#Trump #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #Thanksgiving
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"The year is 2024 and I have yet to see a major story or report commissioned by a cable news show, newspaper, or magazine that demands that Trump voters go to urban diners and talk to Democratic voters. I have yet to see any finger-wagging paternalism from these establishment leaders asking Trump voters why Donald Trump has yet to crack 50% support from the voting population."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #Thanksgiving
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/when-will-trump-voters-be-asked-to
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali · When Will Trump Voters Be Asked To Reach Out and Understand The Rest of Us?
U.S. newspaper editors practicing bothsidesism after the Nazi terror was well underway in 1933 -- is it baked into the profession?
#NewsMedia #journalism #bothsidesism
![Text Shot: From Chicago, John [Gunther]’s editor sent a request for “more diversified” articles: “The whole paper has been loaded with anti-Hitler copy for two weeks.” The time had come, his editor insisted, “to write about something else besides the infringement of personal liberty.” The Daily News was laying itself open to the charge of bias; the news columns shouldn’t be used “for the advocacy of a cause.” . . .
According to a columnist for the Montclair Times, [H. R.] Knickerbocker had gotten himself “quite excited” about Jews and failed to depict the German perspective. His reports were “hearsay,” they were exaggerated, they could scarcely be believed. “There must be two sides to the question."
– Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, chap. 7.](https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/113/461/059/745/209/551/original/9759515033ae4645.jpeg "Text Shot: From Chicago, John [Gunther]’s editor sent a request for “more diversified” articles: “The whole paper has been loaded with anti-Hitler copy for two weeks.” The time had come, his editor insisted, “to write about something else besides the infringement of personal liberty.” The Daily News was laying itself open to the charge of bias; the news columns shouldn’t be used “for the advocacy of a cause.” . . .
According to a columnist for the Montclair Times, [H. R.] Knickerbocker had gotten himself “quite excited” about Jews and failed to depict the German perspective. His reports were “hearsay,” they were exaggerated, they could scarcely be believed. “There must be two sides to the question.\"
– Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, chap. 7.")
![Text Shot: From Chicago, John [Gunther]’s editor sent a request for “more diversified” articles: “The whole paper has been loaded with anti-Hitler copy for two weeks.” The time had come, his editor insisted, “to write about something else besides the infringement of personal liberty.” The Daily News was laying itself open to the charge of bias; the news columns shouldn’t be used “for the advocacy of a cause.” . . .
According to a columnist for the Montclair Times, [H. R.] Knickerbocker had gotten himself “quite excited” about Jews and failed to depict the German perspective. His reports were “hearsay,” they were exaggerated, they could scarcely be believed. “There must be two sides to the question."
– Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, chap. 7.](https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/113/454/167/884/970/121/original/04b0376e13e64543.png "Text Shot: From Chicago, John [Gunther]’s editor sent a request for “more diversified” articles: “The whole paper has been loaded with anti-Hitler copy for two weeks.” The time had come, his editor insisted, “to write about something else besides the infringement of personal liberty.” The Daily News was laying itself open to the charge of bias; the news columns shouldn’t be used “for the advocacy of a cause.” . . .
According to a columnist for the Montclair Times, [H. R.] Knickerbocker had gotten himself “quite excited” about Jews and failed to depict the German perspective. His reports were “hearsay,” they were exaggerated, they could scarcely be believed. “There must be two sides to the question.\"
– Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, chap. 7.")
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Is #bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) - Healthy Debate https://healthydebate.ca/2023/08/topic/bothsidesism-scientific-consensus-matters/ “Our information ecosystem has become a massive #FalseBalance machine. Fringe positions that have already been studied and shown to be wrong are legitimized, given a huge profile and presented as reasonable and respectable alternatives to the existing body of evidence. (1/9) from @CaulfieldTim
Healthy Debate · Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) - Healthy DebateOur information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine. We need to correct bothsideism and misinformation.
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#Falsebalance – also known as #bothsidesism – occurs when opposing views are represented as being more equally valid than the evidence suggests. At its core, false balance is the misrepresentation of the scientific consensus. And it has become a significant issue.” (2/9)
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"But when we allow the cult of Both Sides to shape our own minds, ethical judgement and factual investigation disappear, and with them any chance for constitutional order and democracy.
Ethical judgement would involve a notion of right and wrong, which the activity of the priests erodes. The worse the evil of one side, the more artfully it must be forgiven, and the more viciously the other side must be berated."
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"These are, rather, articles of faith. Once accepted, they enable the public performance we wrongly call 'media.' Both-Sideism does not mediate but mystify. Its practitioners, called 'anchors' or 'publishers,' are shamans or priests. Mystifiers. …
All shamans do this: they insist that their dogma must be our reality."
Timothy Snyder offers brilliant analysis of the "dualist cult" of both-sidesism that rules the roost in US corporate media, and reflects the expectations of the American people. It's a kind of religion, he says,
"No data from the world around us indicates that two is the correct number of perspectives, nor that any two perspectives, once chosen, would be equal."
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"They have already dangerously normalized a criminal con man grifter, making him just a coin flip away from the White House.
If Trump regains office, a substantial part of the blame will rest with our media, just as it did in 2016. How they sleep at night knowing this is beyond comprehension."
#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #normalization
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Todd Beeton cites Stuart Stevens' response to the two New York Times headlines about Trump and Harris that Josh Marshall highlighted yesterday (see /10 in this thread for that graphic). Stevens says,
"These two headlines should be studied in journalism classes for decades.
Trump headline could apply to a Nobel prize winner in genetic studies."
#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/harris-trump-media-double-standard
The Big Picture · Media Holds Kamala Harris And Donald Trump To Two Different Standards
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"In the wake of two devastating hurricanes, Helene and Milton, that’s a question we should be asking in context of climate change: What is the cost of failing to address the increasingly dangerous combination of increasing air temperatures, warming waters, and rising sea levels in terms of loss of human life, destruction of property, and the quality of our existence?"
#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #WashingtonPost #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #Helene #Milton #hurricanes #ClimateChange
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Mary Trump notes that Washington Post has jumped on Kamala Harris for saying she would like to see Medicare expanded to cover long-term at-home care. WaPo asks where the money will come from.
Mary Trump responds:
"Here’s a question I never hear the corporate media ask: What is the cost of not addressing an issue that affects millions of Americans?"
#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #WashingtonPost #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump · What It Costs Us
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"We don’t know what kind of malignant sickness is metastasizing throughout the political newsroom at the Times. And we don’t know what’s going to happen on November 5.
But if Kamala Harris loses, the New York Times’s absolute failure to meet the historical moment — not just this year, but ever since 2015 — will be a big part of the story of how the United States of America ended up where it ended up."
#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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