#Liberal Media

[stillnaomi]

it's not really shocking that the same media that insisted on starting the narrative with October 7th focused on condemning the violence against the UHC CEO. according to the ruling class, we're only supposed to fight oppression through liberal institutions or pacifism, unless it's happening in a Bad Country. hitting back is a big no no to them because, like all bullies, they fear any challenge to their power. capitalism is a system built on exploitation, and its institutions reflect that

[jangillman]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Thom Hartmann at The Hartmann Report:

Have you heard that Comcast is planning to sell MSNBC? Is Rupert Murdoch planning to buy it? Will America’s media landscape soon resemble those of Hungary and Russia? Without the rightwing media juggernaut, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president next year and wouldn’t have won in 2016. That said, the progressive media landscape looks like it might be about to get a whole lot worse. Comcast, which owns NBC and its subsidiaries CNBC and MSNBC (among other media outlets) announced this week that they’ll be spinning off MSNBC (among others) next year. And the consequences are already showing up. It was reported this week that Rachel Maddow just took a substantial annual pay-cut because of the uncertain future of the network. In part, this probably reflects a belt-tightening at Comcast, but is also an indication of how legacy media — which now includes cable properties — are taking a hit from newer digital media, from social media to podcasts to web-based networks and programs.

[...]

While NPR goes to great lengths to avoid political bias in their news (the Corporation for Public Broadcasting even hired last month, “in response to right-wing criticism,” multiple editors specifically to spot and stamp out any progressive perspectives that may creep into their reporting), if they were crippled, it’s safe to assume the roughly 1,500 rightwing hate radio stations in the country stand more than ready and willing to pick up their radio audience. Rightwing billionaires brought us Fox “News,” Sinclair, two other web- and cable-based rightwing TV channels, nationwide networks of hate radio (now also in Spanish), tens of millions of dollars in subsidies to rightwing podcast hosts, and the destruction of about half the nation’s local newspapers. Not to mention an entire network of billionaire-funded hard-right phony “pink slime” newspapers that pop up around the country every election year.

There’s no equivalent politically-tilted media systems on the left; Democratic-leaning billionaires have stayed out of the media space ever since Romney’s company took down Air America.

The closest TV and radio counterparts we have are Free Speech TV (available on the web, Dish, Sling, Roku, AppleTV, and DirecTV) and the Progress Channel on SiriusXM (my daily program is carried on both).

In the print media space, Substack is growing (although they also carry hard-right content) and provides a solid community of progressive publications (like HartmannReport.com), but that’s a drop in a much larger ocean; even The Washington Post and The New York Times don’t come close to the strength of editorial bias found in the Murdoch family’s The New York Post or The Wall Street Journal. Publications like The New Republic, Mother Jones, The Nation, and The Guardian provide solid progressive content, but all have funding bases that are trivial compared to conservative publications supported by rightwing billionaire networks. Ditto for websites like Raw Story, Common Dreams, Alternet, LA Progressive, Democratic Underground, and Daily Kos.

Thom Hartmann wrote a excellent yet frightening piece about how progressive journalism and media has ossified.

[trump666traitor]

[nando161mando]

Liberal media went from demonizing to praising ISIS real quick

[foxy-kitsune-fox]

I believe and think Kamala Harris is gonna win on Election Day from polls and early voting by pandering, lies, symbolism, racism, fascist. If not, I was wrong, but still not voting for her, Donald Trump is a better option choice.

~ Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Fox/Foxy Kitsune Fox/Fox Man/Fox King/King Fox/Gemini Man/Autism Man/Rainbow Man Is A Metrosexual/God Of Autism/King Of Autism/God Of Asperger/King Of Asperger 🦊

[new-california-veteran]

So I didn't watch the debate because I thought it was going to be on tonight and missed it last night, but from what I've gathered so far the "liberal media" is desperate for four more years of trump.

To hell with the country and its people, the ratings they get from trump's clown show are all that matters to them, lol.

[alexbyrth]

What the BBC and the liberal media thinks about the audience and YOU.

[liberalthelemite]

Jon Stewart's Danger To Democracy - by Mary L Trump

For an 81-year-old, President Biden’s accomplishments are astounding: record economic recovery; historic climate and infrastructure investment — massive achievements in an era of vanishing bi-partisanship. There is much more to do after the disastrous four years of the Trump administration and decades of Republican governance, but unlike his elderly, fascist, and cognitively impaired counterpart in the Republican Party, President Biden is an elder statesman with experience to get things done that can give American democracy a fighting chance.

The alternative?

A cruel, unfit, rapist who, in addition to being a criminal defendant under four indictments, sides with our enemies at every opportunity.

There is no comparison.

Every single time someone in the corporate media, or a comedian with the reach and influence of somebody like Jon Stewart, wants to highlight “both sides” at the cost of the truth, it’s up to you and me to get out the word.

[coreythegremlin]

the level of sinophobia in the west is ridiculous to the point that people will answer a video about street food by talking about suicide nets. there's a good chunk of people where the mere mention of china has them frothing at the mouth, and all because they're not the "good" asians who do whatever the US says. the media's role in this is vital, the way it manufactures hatred by leaning into whatever foreign policy its government has

[stillnaomi]

remember that one time the security services defanged the the guardian newspaper?

On 20 July 2013, GCHQ officials entered The Guardian’s offices at King’s Cross in London, six weeks after the first Snowden-related article had been published.

At the request of the government and security services, Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson, along with two others, spent three hours destroying the laptops containing the Snowden documents.

The Guardian staffers, according to one of the newspaper’s reporters, brought “angle-grinders, dremels – drills with revolving bits – and masks”. The reporter added, “The spy agency provided one piece of hi-tech equipment, a ‘degausser’, which destroys magnetic fields and erases data.”

Johnson claims that the destruction of the computers was “purely a symbolic act”, adding that “the government and GCHQ knew, because we had told them, that the material had been taken to the US to be shared with the New York Times. The reporting would go on. The episode hadn’t changed anything.”

Yet the episode did change something. As the D-Notice Committee minutes for November 2013 outlined: “Towards the end of July [as the computers were being destroyed], The Guardian had begun to seek and accept D-Notice advice not to publish certain highly sensitive details and since then the dialogue [with the committee] had been reasonable and improving.”

The British security services had carried out more than a “symbolic act”. It was both a show of strength and a clear threat. The Guardian was then the only major newspaper that could be relied upon by whistleblowers in the US and British security bodies to receive and cover their exposures, a situation which posed a challenge to security agencies.

thank goodness for smaller operations, like Declassified UK, or we'd hear even less of what the state gets up to

[jangillman]

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[themfp1]

WHERE DID ALL THE FASCISM TALK GO?

By: Byron York On Monday, journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, “Is there a single person in DC or media acting as if Literal Adolf Hitler is about to assume power in 2 weeks in order to end American democracy, install fascism, and create a white supremacist dictatorship? Is it possible those who said this for years never believed it?” You can answer that for yourself. But the fact is, the…

[somerandomg33k]

So, does Liberal support Fascism? What did Twitch do this time? And CAN THE ELECTION BE OVER ALREADY?!?! And whatever else comes to our minds on Social Justice Alchemy. And we are joined by our friend Owen Macdonald. Come and join us.

[teachanarchy]

The Failure of The Liberal Media