#Media Coverage

[deadpresidents]

The media keeps saying things like "this is unheard of". NO, IT'S NOT.

JFK. RFK. George Wallace. Gerald Ford (twice). Ronald Reagan. Steve Scalise. Gabby Giffords. Not to mention Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and MLK. And that's all since 1960. This happens pretty often in the United States.

And is anyone surprised that there's been an act of political violence in 2024? Every conversation I hear is dancing on the edge of "political violence."

[restless-soulz]

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i don't usually post videos, but i thought this was pretty relevant because I haven't seen anything on tumblr about it.

[alwaysbewoke]

the fix is in!!

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Source

[a-person-on-earth]

Edward Snowden on X: "If it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Nothing can justify this. It's a crime. A crime. And everyone in the world is less safe for it." / X

[vox-anglosphere]

It was a death that shook the world - and resonates to this day.

[jangillman]

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[littleraccooncarl]

Writers for PBS Kids shows, including Carl the Collector, are going on strike if management does not agree to a fair deal before their current contract expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 21, 2024.

If this happens, this would mean production on Carl would be halted, and we would get no new episodes for a while.

[kick-a-long]

Great video that really spoke to my experience of living in 2024. Of the fear and anxiety that comes with every new person I meet and talking to friends who support killing me and people like me. It’s a long video but it’s great. It’s got a lot to say about social conformity.

[yamimichi]

The Greek boat disaster. 700-800 people on board. Many of them women and children. Hundreds missing. Potentially victims of human trafficking.

But hey! Let's have the media focus on 5 billionaires who paid upwards of $200k to get bolted into a death trap just so they could go sightseeing.

I'm not being insensitive to the plight of those 5. I'm saying that the media is being insensitive to the Greek boat victims. Apparently billionaire lives are more newsworthy.

[shantidasi]

#झूठीमीडिया_शर्म_करो

सत्य को जांचे बिना पत्रकारिता की धज्जियां उड़ाते हुए भारतीय मीडिया संत रामपाल जी महाराज के ख़िलाफ़ गलत खबर दिखा रही है। जिसे स्वीकार नहीं किया जा सकता।

कुछ तो शर्म करो मीडिया, सत्य दिखाओ।

Media Apologize To Sant RampalJi

[deadpresidents]

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

-- President Lyndon B. Johnson, on the cynical media coverage that he believed he and his Administration often received, particularly when compared to the coverage of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.

[nothingelsetobe]

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Please watch this!!

[tilbageidanmark]

The language of conflict...

[readingsquotes]

-Oct 18, 2023

"Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that started the 1948 war that saw Israel seize 78 percent of historic Palestine. The lie that Israel faced annihilation in 1967, forcing it to invade and occupy the remaining 22 percent of Palestine, as well as land belonging to Egypt and Syria. 

Israel is sustained by lies. The lie that Israel wants a just and equitable peace and will support a Palestinian state. The lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The lie that Israel is an “outpost of Western civilization in a sea of barbarism.” The lie that Israel respects the rule of law and human rights. 

Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians are always greeted with lies.

...

Israel has invented an Orwellian lexicon. Children killed by Israelis become children caught in crossfire. The bombing of residential districts, with dozens of dead and wounded, becomes a surgical strike on a bomb-making factory. The destruction of Palestinian homes becomes the demolition of the homes of terrorists. 

The Big Lie — Große Lüge — feeds the two reactions Israel seeks to elicit — racism among its supporters and terror among its victims. The Big Lies fosters the myth of a clash of civilizations, a war between democracy, decency and honor on one side and Islamic terrorism, barbarism and medievalism on the other. 

George Orwell in his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” called the Big Lie “doublethink”. Doublethink uses “logic against logic” and “repudiate[s] morality while laying claim to it.” The Big Lie abolishes nuances, ambiguities and contradictions that can plague conscience. It is designed to create cognitive dissonance. It permits no gray zones. The world is black and white, good and evil, righteous and unrighteous. The Big Lie allows believers to take comfort — a comfort they are desperately seeking — in their own moral superiority even as they abrogate all morality. It feeds, what Edward Bernays called, the “logic-proof compartment of dogmatic adherence.” All effective propaganda, Bernays writes, targets and builds upon these irrational “psychological habits.”

Israeli supporters thirst for these lies. They do not want to know the truth. The truth would force them to examine their racism, self-delusion and complicity in oppression, murder and genocide. "

[a-person-on-earth]

Film The Police LA on X: "Shutting down the news is NOT something you do if you believe your cause is righteous. It’s something you do when you have something to hide." / X