#The Press

[tomi4i]

Journalism has a vital role in shedding light on what entities like Israel want to keep in the dark.

Israel killed over 100 journalists in 10 weeks.

[macmanx]

It’s a good day to stop supporting the NYT, and start supporting your favorite independent journalists, or your local NPR and/or PBS stations.

[palatinewolfsblog]

“The profession of journalism ought to be

about telling people what they need to know -

not what they want to know.”

Walter Cronkite.

The Art of Gravitas

(for my old Friend @acommonloon ) ...

[typhlonectes]

[kaldurahmen12]

Alibis needed

I feel like we need a montage of the kiddos fucking with the press. Like sure, we hear about the infamous galas, but for fuck’s sake, their dad is a drunk, zombified playboy himbo with an adoption addiction. There’s no way Brucie Wayne’s wards aren’t pulling the same shit to distract from their playing duck-duck-goose with the Riddler and Two Face every night.

I mean, look at this:

Where is Duke playing giant shadow Pac-Man with People Magazine? Where is Cass materializing at Vicki Vale’s elbow like the girls from the shining, or Damian throwing hands with some random oil tycoon for killing the whales or Tim dropping by seemingly innocuous conversations and saying, “oh yeah that guy? The beloved stock broker? Predator. Serial stalker. Arrest him. Jail no Bail.” And absolutely wrecking careers as he walks off into the chocolate fountain.

please. I don’t need Bruce punching his kids. I need THIS.

also, just look at his dramatic ass:

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Quote by Elizabeth Spurlock Lambert : Jake Tapper just lied about Democratic governors getting together to discuss getting rid of Biden. When called out on his lie by many of those governors who were named and were pissed that he lied about a meeting that they said didn’t even happen, he deleted some of his tweets, but he didn’t retract or apologize and they are now just feathers spreading in the wind.

Politico lied about Biden family members privately trashing Biden’s campaign advisers. That never happened, and Politico doesn’t have any sources who would even know if it did. And it gets worse- a Biden aide even refuted the story before it ran, and they ran it anyway.

The NYT (who never endorsed Biden, including not in 2020 either) is so bitter about him never giving them an interview that they openly call for him to step down as they get caught being on Trump’s payroll.

NBC lied that Nancy Pelosi called for Biden to step down and when she got pissed and corrected the lie, Jen Psaki, Biden’s own former press secretary, kept repeating it anyway.

Politico also lied that Governor Whitmer said that Biden would lose Michigan. She never said that. They never corrected.

Bloomberg lied (by twisting facts) about Dems doing a virtual roll call about Biden being the nominee. That’s a lie.

Carl Bernstein lied to CNN that Biden was having memory loss at a restaurant in June 2023. The restaurant he named has been closed since 2019. He also wasn’t even there. He cited “unnamed sources” who he says told him. It was reported uncritically and without a fact check by CNN even though it’s not even possible that it’s true.

David Folkenflik of NPR deliberately omitted half of Jim Clyburn’s quote. Bad faith Biden-hater Andrea Mitchell asked Clyburn if he would support VP Harris *if Biden dropped out*. Clyburn answered that direct question in the affirmative, but then spent a long time taking exception to the whole premise of the question and said he doesn’t think Biden should drop out. Folkenflik omitted the part where Clyburn took exception, and only reported that Clyburn would support Harris if Biden drops out. I would count the omission as enough of a distortion of Clyburn’s answer that it was a lie.

This attached data compiled by media matters shows that the political media was pushing these “Biden is old and has dementia” stories even *before* the debate where his stutter got triggered because they let Trump spew a lie tornado all over the the stage at him. They need their bias confirmation now. Which is what they’re doing.

The biggest problem our democracy faces in the 2024 election is voter suppression.

We never hear about that problem. Why?

Because a close second problem is that two institutions which are crucial to protecting our democracy- the press and the courts- only work if they practice disciplined ethics. Neither institution has any accountability in 2024 for not being ethical. Who enforces ethics on the Supreme Court? Who enforces ethics on cable news and political news media? All we can do is not fall for it.

The next time you hear a story where “sources” have told CNN or MSNBC or Politico or NBC or NPR or anybody anything about “insiders say”, just don’t even believe it. “Some people are saying”. That’s what they are getting away with. I’ve been amazed at how many people I’ve seen it work on!

[retropopcult]

"New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Reporters and rewrite men writing stories, and waiting to be sent out. Rewrite man in background gets the story on the phone from reporter outside." Photographed 1942 by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.

[cheery-cherry-cherub]

IF YOU SAW THIS ITS NOT FUCKUNG TRUE

[captainpirateface]

We went to a newspaper press!

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[crying-on-the-six]

[hezigler]

The greatest failure of our democratic republic is that of the fourth estate.

[macmanx]

The return to power of Donald Trump, who has called journalists enemies and talked about retribution against those he feels have wronged him, has news executives nervous. Perceived threats are numerous: lawsuits of every sort, efforts to unmask anonymous sources, physical danger and intimidation, attacks on public media and libel protections, day-to-day demonization.

[beatleshistoryblog]

LECTURE 16: MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS: This footage demonstrates quite clearly the intense level of controversy in the United States – particularly in the southern states – stirred by John Lennon’s remarks in an interview with journalist Maureen Cleave in early 1966 about The Beatles being “more popular than Jesus.” Lennon’s fellow Brits – even devoutly religious Christians – understood that Lennon was commenting on the increasing secularization of the country, and how The Beatles – and other forms of popular culture – often supplant organized religion in stirring intense devotion among followers. But in the United States, his comments were ripped completely out context, made to seem as if Lennon had been boasting, and sparked a number of “Beatle Boycotts” and public demonstrations against the band during their third and final tour of the United States. These protests were among many unpleasant events in 1966 that pushed The Beatles off of the touring stage and deeper and deeper into the recording studio. 

[gypsythorn13]

Yes i love using stuff like this and try to support local bookstores however i can

Mild rant that's been bugging me and i like to vent in text i sent my sister to a bookstore about a half an hour away from her to pick a book for me that i sent her the money for as well as gas money to go get it cause she was a lil low im having her read this book for content warnings for me so that's why i did it that way and i really wanted to check out this store and thought she'd enjoy getting to check it out it seemed very lovely and after asking her about it the first thing she mentioned was that it was expensive

And the little vein in my forehead starts twitching

She complains about this everytime we go to an independent bookstore I've never heard her complain about the prices at bookamillion or barnes and noble just indies and its like they didn't make the prices the publishers did you're upset with the wrong people they can't afford to sell books at a lost like amazon or walmart so shocker they are the price as advertised on the back of every book you own yes i understand publishing books have raised prices so has everything else this is not new take it out on walmart instead of books n stuff that are trying to make rent and get in queer authors (she's freaking pan) and authors that might not have a audience without them

She literally complained when we went to an amazing bookstore in Bloomington morgensterns that reopened after barnes and noble went out of business in Bloomington honestly cutest story I've ever heard they had a wall of manga and a wall of graphic novels a section for dnd and a section for queer authors things i thought that she would love i got a copy of kikis delivery service the book psychonaut and libernull my friend got an alan watts book and a book about poisons loved it and she just complained she want to go to half price books which we did and that was fine but there was nothing wrong with morgensterns its was amazing

Any rate i can't take my sister to any bookstores any more and im mad about it i just want to support authors not buy all their books second hand and take forever to even find them

Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if they’d reopen at all.

The lifeline in question is called Bookshop. 

In simple terms, it’s a super clean, user-friendly online bookstore whose raison d’être is supporting independent bookstores — not simply with exposure or resources (though that’s certainly a factor), but with cold hard cash…