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Lincoln Project helpfully provides us with a beaucoup of times when the Garbage Can Man Trump has called Kamala Harris' supporters — and America itself — garbage.
I'm continuing to hashtag New York Times and Washington Post as I post this item because both media outlets should be royally shamed, though they're evidently well beyond shame.
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/14
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"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'
That really did happen.
And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?
If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/13
"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/12
"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."
~ Seth Abramson
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/11
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FACT CHECK: No, President Biden Didn’t Call Donald Trump Supporters “Garbage”
The viral lie—spread to hundreds of millions by Trump and Elon Musk and the subject of a bizarre publicity stunt by Trump aimed at making voters forget what happened at Madison Square Garden—is silly.Seth Abramson (Proof)
"As the election approaches, the reporting gets worse — policy issues are pushed aside, the most ludicrous micro-controversies are given front-page treatment, more and more attention is paid to increasingly useless polls and pointless speculation, and they ride into election day on a wave of triviality. ...
The most disheartening thing about all this is how it shows our elite media have learned nothing."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/10
"Nobody tells the elite reporters that they’re terrible at their job, and they think their job is to report the same thing all the other news outlets are reporting."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/9
~ Paul Waldman
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The News Media Have Learned Nothing
The election is just days away, and reporters are making the worst possible choices.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
Kurtz quotes New York Times Pitchbot, which writes,
"Biden calling Trump supporters 'garbage' in a webcam interview is a moral outrage. Here’s why Trump calling Harris supporters 'garbage' at a rally is not."
"In the final week of the presidential campaign, the country’s two most prominent newspapers extended into a second day their credulous coverage of Republicans’ fake outrage over President Biden’s 'garbage' comment.
The NYT and WaPo each made it a front-page story in Thursday’s editions, with above-the-fold, prime-real-estate treatment."
~ David Kurtz
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/7
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Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again
INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... John RobertsDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Readers do not distrust opinion journalists for forming opinions and sharing them with the public. They distrust condescending, ham-fisted plutocrats who have no blessed idea what they’re talking about, moving fast and breaking stuff."
"Bezos is right to worry about waning trust in the media. But he does not understand that people like him are in large part responsible for this distrust, and that cosplaying as a pundit while pandering to the worst-faith actors in American politics is not a plan for restoring it."
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
/5
~ Jay Willis
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Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem
Brace yourself, but The Washington Post’s owner’s decision to destroy his paper’s credibility in order to restore trust in journalism may have a few flaws in its logic.The New Republic
"I’d hoped (forlornly) that all major outlets would see the rush for the exits at the Post and start asking themselves whether they’re taking their own subscribers for granted. Seems they did not."
~ Brian Beutler
"Independent analysts such as Edison Research said in March that X’s usage in the United States dropped 30 percent since last year. Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover."
~ Robert Reich
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #Twitter #EconomicElites #Trump
/3
"The Guardian U.S. might be one of the biggest winners. …
U.S. readers pledged $2.16 million [to The Guardian's fundraising campaign]. (That’s an additional $1.5 million since Saturday night.) The campaign broke the Guardian U.S. record for fundraising twice; first setting a one-day record on Friday with $485,000 raised and then topping that on Saturday with an additional $619,000 raised."
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #PhiladelphiaInquirer #Guardian
/2
Sarah Scire reports that publications endorsing Harris, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Guardian, are capitalizing on the controversy Jeff Bezos has caused by yanking a Washington Post endorsement of Harris. Other publications endorsing Harris are now racking up new subscribers.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #PhiladelphiaInquirer #Guardian
/1
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The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs
The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.Nieman Lab
"Donald recently called America 'the garbage can of the world,' and this is what he had to say about actual human beings back in September:
'The people that surround [Kamala Harris]—they’re Scum. They’re scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.'
Good to know.
We’re five days out. The media keeps getting it wrong."
~ Mary Trump
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/15
It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal, just a ho-hum announcement of something not happening. Instead the greatest salesperson of the era, whose customer obsession had made #Amazon into a #colossus…, got the greatest customer #rejection of a lifetime.
A ¼M #WashingtonPost readers canceled their subscriptions….That is ~10% of the total circulation. The speed & decisive force of the cancellations was a bit of a shock but also appropriate, said Danny Caine, author of “How to Resist Amazon & Why.”
"How is it possible that an indicted insurrectionist, adjudicated sex offender, and convicted felon could very possibly be elected president for the second time?
The news of this past week gives us a clue. Billionaire newspaper owners Jeff Bezos (Washington Post) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times) each killed an already-approved editorial board endorsement of Kamala Harris."
~ Michael Podhorzer
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #Bezos #LosAngelesTimes #SoonShiong
/3
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The John Roberts Election
Politicians in Robes Part II: How the billionaires captured the Court to remake American “democracy” in their own imageMichael Podhorzer (Weekend Reading)
Shipley held a contentious meeting on Monday with scores of #opinion section staffers, who posed tough questions to the #editorial page chief, including appeals for #Bezos to address them.
As recently as last week, according to a person present, Shipley said he sought to talk Bezos out of his decision. Shipley added, “I failed.”
“I believe we face a very real threat of #autocracy in the candidacy of Donald #Trump,” Hoffman added in his letter to #Editorial Page Editor #DavidShipley, which was obtained by NPR. “I find it untenable & unconscionable that we have lost our voice."
Hoffman says he intends to remain at the paper, saying he "refuses to give up on The Post, where I have spent 42 years.
“For decades, the #WashingtonPost's editorials have been a beacon of light, signaling hope to dissidents, political prisoners & the voiceless,” Hoffman wrote in a letter Monday explaining his decision to leave the editorial board. “When victims of repression were harassed, exiled, imprisoned & murdered, we made sure the whole world knew the truth.
The other writer is David Hoffman, who accepted a #PulitzerPrize for #editorial writing on Thurs, the day before #Bezos’ decision…. Pulitzer judges recognized him “for a compelling & well-researched series on new #technologies & the tactics #authoritarian regimes use to repress #dissent in the digital age, & how they can be fought.”
The #WashingtonPost has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations of digital #subscriptions & a series of #resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples w/the fallout of owner #Bezos’s decision to block an #endorsement of #KamalaHarris.
>200k people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday…. The figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5M subscribers, which includes print as well.
#FourthEstate #democracy #journalism
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The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The #WashingtonPost Co.'s status as a privately held company.
“It’s a colossal number,” former Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told NPR. “The problem is, people don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.”
Over 200,000 subscribers reportedly flee The Washington Post after owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
@npr reports "the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well." Several columnists have also resigned from the paper over the decision.
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #USPolitics #JeffBezos #Media #Politics #Trump #News #Journalism
We want to support the journalists; so boycott Amazon and encourage Bezos to sell the Washington Post to someone who gives a shit.
Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement
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#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement
Fears for effect on jobs at newspaper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos that declined to back a presidential candidateEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
#NYTimes #Opinion #Section Runs #Splashy #AntiTrump #FrontPage — Amid Uproar Over #WashingtonPost and #LATimes Declining to Run #Endorsements.
"#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump says he will #prosecute his #enemies, order #massdeportations, use #soldiers against #citizens, #abandon our #allies, play #politics with #NaturalDisasters — #believehim."
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NY Times Opinion Section Runs Splashy Anti-Trump Front Page
The Times endorsed Harris all the way back on Sept. 30, writing she had "demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution."Kipp Jones (Mediaite)
"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."
~ Lily Mae Lazarus
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
/1
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Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’
Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump’s meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper’s Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.Lily Mae Lazarus (The Daily Beast)
What Bezos said in 2013: “There would be change with or without new ownership,” he said. “But the key thing I hope people will take away from this is that the values of The Post do not need changing. The duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owners.”
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes published this on the paper’s website, titling it “Democracy Dies in Darkness”
#WashingtonPost #fascism #Editorial #politics
"This is a rather monstrous abdication of responsibility in the face of the very real fascist threat that looms over us all—especially those of us who aren’t billionaires. It is yet another stark and troubling instance of the failures of our corporate media to do its job."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos
/19
"This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty."
~ Marty Baron, former executive editor of Washingon Post quoted by D. Earl Stephens
Stephens adds,
"When a newspaper with the logo 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' fails to endorse the candidate that stands up for that Democracy, they are not being accurate or credible.
They in fact are completely worthless.
Dead."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost
/2
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BREAKING: The Washington Post Has Died
Its stunning refusal to endorse Kamala Harris is the end of the venerable newspaper ...D. Earl Stephens ✍️ (Enough Already)
"The editor of the editorial page had already drafted the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris when publisher Will Lewis—who is a new hire, hailing from the Rupert Murdoch journalism tree—quashed it and then released a CYA statement about how the paper was 'returning to its roots' of not endorsing candidates. The Post itself reported that the decision was made by the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #Murdoch
/3
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The Guardrails Are Already Crumpling
Jeff Bezos’s decision to pull a Washington Post endorsement of Harris is foreboding. But not necessarily for the reasons you think.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"Our corporate media, run by billionaires, are abdicating their duty and fidelity to democracy by proactively bending the knee to Trump and his dictatorial ambitions. The people must resist."
~ Wajahat Ali
"Will Lewis should be ashamed, if shame is an emotion he is capable of feeling. What an empty shell of a leader. What an embarrassing decline for a once-venerated news organization.
This decision won’t impact the outcome of the election in eleven days. But it will have a lasting impact on how people think of the Washington Post."
~ Dave Karpf
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis
/5
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A suggestion for the Washington Post's new motto: "Obey in Advance"
A study in willful incompetenceDave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)
"As the 2024 election looms, media self-censorship in response to Trump’s potential return threatens the democratic role of journalism. …
In times like these, it's crucial for media organizations to remember their responsibility to the public. Anticipatory obedience may offer short-term safety, but it poses long-term risks to the very fabric of democracy."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis
/6
The aren't obeying in advance.
They want Trump to win.
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis #LosAngelesTimes #media
/7
"One week before the mortals finish voting and might elect an authoritarian, one whose former chief of staff calls him a fascist, the Washington Post has decided that silence is the best way to guide its readers.
Silence, after all, will not offend the authoritarian should he win."
~ Benjamin Wittes
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #RupertMurdoch #WillLewis
/8
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The Washington Post Bends the Knee to Trump
Billionaires can’t be trusted to maintain the institutions of democracy.Benjamin Wittes (The Bulwark)
