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Corporate media is failing to inform Americans of the criminality, harms & danger of Trump. Publishers & Editors expose their biases by what they prioritize, exclude and frame on their #FrontPage
#TrumpArraignmentDay Edition
What do you think of A1 @nytimes ?
@froomkin
Corporate media is failing to inform Americans of the criminality, harms & danger of Trump. Publishers & Editors expose their biases by what they prioritize, exclude and frame on their #FrontPage
#TrumpArraignmentDay Edition
What do you think of A1 @nytimes ?
@froomkin
.@nycscribe and NYT Editors chose this photo. Stoic Trump, Flag
“Momentous” is that good or bad?
@MarkJacob16 @JeffSharlet
“Momentous” is that good or bad?
@MarkJacob16 @JeffSharlet
I guess Fred Ryan & WaPo think a photo of Trump and a plane are informative? Note the “Not Guilty” equals “Trump says” framing.
Did @SallyBuzbee see the goddamn photos we saw of our National Security documents in a bathroom shower?
Why this frame WaPo?
@tomwatson @AndreaChalupa
Did @SallyBuzbee see the goddamn photos we saw of our National Security documents in a bathroom shower?
Why this frame WaPo?
@tomwatson @AndreaChalupa
.@NPR has just written an advertisement for Nazis under the guise of reporting on the problem of white supremacist hate groups.
Don’t believe us?
A 🧵…starting with this positive headline.
@MrOlmos, @jimurquhartpixs what are you thinking? What was your editor thinking?
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Don’t believe us?
A 🧵…starting with this positive headline.
@MrOlmos, @jimurquhartpixs what are you thinking? What was your editor thinking?
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The headers above the sections, about NAZIS (!), read:
-Finding people with like minds
-A nice way to go about it
-Projecting power
-“It’s a good way to relate to normal people”
-The face of hate
Barring one, these might as well have been written by a PR firm. 2/
-Finding people with like minds
-A nice way to go about it
-Projecting power
-“It’s a good way to relate to normal people”
-The face of hate
Barring one, these might as well have been written by a PR firm. 2/
According to Fascist Quarterl— er, we mean @NPR, the Nazis are a scrappy, admirable bunch of go-getters with the gumption to “punch above their weight and get noticed.”
@MrOlmos @jimurquhartpixs and your editor, what on Earth are you doing? 3/
@MrOlmos @jimurquhartpixs and your editor, what on Earth are you doing? 3/
The @nytimes writes propaganda by euphemism. The public deserves to understand connections between DeSantis and religious zealot billionaires whose stated goal is to destroy public education. Where’s that article? @PatriciaMazzei has a history of doing PR for DeSantis. 1/2
Here is incoming president Corcoran on how education will be weaponized by the religious right to achieve the goal of destroying truth. PRETTY IMPORTANT for the public to know, wouldn’t you say? The @nytimes isn’t doing journalism here. It is hiding the truth. #FixMediaNow 2/2
Here’s @PatriciaMazzei using her power to paint DeSantis as a savvy political gambler while he risked lives. How ghoulish:
🧵We're building a people powered movement to create a better informed electorate. We've written articles, created guidelines for better coverage, led trainings in how to write letters to the editor, how to engage with the journalists who tell us about the world...1/
We've organized folks to demand a working #FCC and exposed efforts to keep it in service to conglomerates. We will work every angle possible to get out from under the yolk of a commercialized system for informing the public because we are currently systemically under-informed. 2/
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🧵We wrote in @Salon, "The 2022 midterms are a referendum on how well America's newsrooms have conveyed the authoritarian threat to the voting public."
We called on media to urgently uplift truth & democracy with election coverage. With a week to go... 1/
salon.com/2022/10/23/med…
We called on media to urgently uplift truth & democracy with election coverage. With a week to go... 1/
salon.com/2022/10/23/med…
Things aren't going great. We outline 3 main requirements for pro-democracy election coverage:
1) make threats to democracy clear
2) protect Americans against disinformation
3) treat elections as if they are more important than the sports page
This @AP article fails all 3.
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1) make threats to democracy clear
2) protect Americans against disinformation
3) treat elections as if they are more important than the sports page
This @AP article fails all 3.
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To make threats to democracy clear journalists need to stop saying stuff like candidates "embrace...Trump's lies about the...election." Candidates are lying all on their own. Say so. Timidity from newsrooms is creating a nationwide permission structure to "deny" elections. 3/
🧵As national news media perilously spreads anti-democracy candidate lies, here are examples of what pro-democracy, pro-truth election coverage can look like. Check out our guidelines and share them with a political reporter you know...immediately. 1/
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It's imperative that pro-democracy newsrooms use forceful language to inoculate American voters against strategic election disinformation. Here's a great example from the @pbpost. Coverage must connect the #BigLie to the GOP effort to undermine faith in elections. 2/
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Pro-democracy newsrooms must uplift election workers, voters, and the election process. Here's a great example from @npr's @hansilowang. Poll workers are under MAGA attack. Celebrating them in feature articles makes them less ripe for GOP demonization. 3/ npr.org/2022/09/07/112…
🧵Our national news media, describing lying GOP candidates as mere "skeptics," has taken sides in the battle for democracy. Fascists who lie about our electoral system aren't viable candidates for office. Media must stop softening their immorality. We need pro-truth frames. 1/
Fascism expert @ruthbenghiat explains: "The GOP's aim is to debase the whole idea of elections, so the fundamental democratic idea of relying on elections to choose leaders is compromised." The midterms are a referendum on how well America's newsrooms have conveyed the threat. 2/
Euphemisms like "election denier" convey validity to a strategic disinformation campaign. 70% of GOP voters believe lies they've been fed. News media creates a nationwide permission structure to "deny" elections. A candidate who "disputes the 2020 results" is lying. 3/
Introducing the Media and Democracy Project đź“° đź“ş đź“»:
We are a grassroots group of concerned citizens who launched an activist campaign in 2020 to demand that our media provide truth, context, and transparency in every piece of reporting. #FixMediaNow 1/ MediaAndDemocracyProject.org
We are a grassroots group of concerned citizens who launched an activist campaign in 2020 to demand that our media provide truth, context, and transparency in every piece of reporting. #FixMediaNow 1/ MediaAndDemocracyProject.org
We believe an informed citizenry is the bedrock of a democratic society. The information we receive from media affects and shapes our opinions, voting decisions, degree of civic engagement, and ultimately determines the health of our society. We must @FixMediaNow #FixMediaNow 2/
Robust news and democracy go together. “A popular [democratically elected] Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance…” —James Madison #FixMediaNow 3/
A MORE ACCURATE HEADLINE: Leaked data shows Switzerland banks engaged in criminal activity, now trying to clean up their act. nytimes.com/2022/02/28/wor…
Now, an extraordinary leak of data from Credit Suisse, one of the world’s most iconic banks, is exposing how the bank held hundreds of millions of dollars for heads of state, intelligence officials, sanctioned businessmen and human rights abusers, among many others.-@nytimes
As predicted by Italian fascism expert @ruthbenghiat, now comes the propaganda on January 6 as a badge of honor. This dreck from the @nytimes ffs.
MAGA as victim… see Trump’s failed coup “as day one of movement”.
Agitprop makes its way around the world in seconds, redistributing facts.
1/ PUBLIC MEDIA READING LIST 🧵:
Hi, our mission is to convince you that commercialized, corporate media is every bit its own form of propaganda and to help you help us push for alternatives. Here is a list of articles and books to get you started.
Hi, our mission is to convince you that commercialized, corporate media is every bit its own form of propaganda and to help you help us push for alternatives. Here is a list of articles and books to get you started.
2/ Of course, you'll be best served by reading @VWPickard's excellent book, Democracy Without Journalism? amazon.com/Democracy-with…
3/ Then read his explainer of the Fairness Doctrine. Most scholars doubt a new FD will have the impact activists think it will, but "it encouraged sensitivity toward programming biases and empowered local communities to hold broadcasters accountable." washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
