"After the June debate that so clearly exposed Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, news coverage questioning his competence to hold office for another term was seemingly never-ending, and for good reason. The end result, of course, was that Biden took himself out of the race and endorsed Kamala Harris.

Now Trump has had a debate that raises serious questions about his competence."

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
/1

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/trumps-mental-capacity-is-now-topic

Trump’s mental capacity is now topic one

Is he competent to be president? That’s a question journalists should be asking, prominently and relentlessly, until Election Day.

^{Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)}

Pundits and journos want policy details from Harris because they’re looking for flaws in an otherwise flawless campaign rollout so they can have more drama.

So they say the lack of detail is a big problem and then find swing state voters who heard that and echo it back to them for new stories.

This is how a lot of sausage gets made.
#HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024 #trump #media

Google just destroyed a plan to get tech giants to hand some of their ad profits to journalism in California.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @mattdpearce.bsky.social about why Google and Meta are a threat to journalism and how they’re transforming the web.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/237_google_and_meta_are_a_threat_to_journalism_w_matt_pearce

#tech #journalism #news #media #google #meta #california

Whoa, she was shot in the head by a sniper, and this is how US media whitewashing her murder

Video on TikTok:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeKxtFFE/

#Media #Hypocrisy #WarCrime #DoubleStandard #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics

Now that’s a lede

“In Kamala Harris’s big general-election debate four years ago, she faced off against an opponent with a fly on his head.

In her immeasurably bigger debate on Tuesday night, she confronted an opponent with bats inside his.”

Opinion | Donald Trump Made a Raving, Rambling Fool of Himself in That Debate
#politics #media #journalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opinion/trump-harris-debate.html

👀 Per Mary Trump of unfortunate birth.

Apparently, he was trying to connect his #lies about high bacon prices with his lies about wind energy. He keeps telling these easily debunked lies because, as Daniel Dale, chronicler of #Donalds mendacity, pointed out, “By virtue of shameless perseverance, [Donald] often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular #falsehood.” In other words, while Donald never gets tired of lying, the #media gets tired of doing its job.

"The Trump-Musk alliance is about their unquenchable thirst for power. Also their hatred of women, trans people, and immigrants. But it has nothing to do with 'wasteful spending,' no matter what the New York Times tells you. ...

The New York Times can pretend to believe that, but we don’t have to."

~ Jamison Foser

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #misogyny #trans #immigrants #xenophobia #NewYorkTimes
/4

Boddie quotes Michael Steele:

"It's obvious on so many levels, but the thing about it that strikes me, and it's going to be manifest on Tuesday, in how even in the run-up to this debate, the expectation is somehow — she's got to perform better, she's got to prove something. No! The guy who's talking cray-cray has to prove something."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/3

"MSNBC's The Weekend co-hosts, former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders-Townsend, on Sunday issued a scathing rebuke of the media's coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump."

~ Maya Boddie

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/2

https://www.alternet.org/trump-harris-debate-msnbc/

'Trump is not covered the same': MSNBC hosts slam media’s high 'expectation' of Harris for 'clicks'

^{Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)}

Scott Dworkin continues his weekly "5 Corporate Media Fails" series with commentary on five big fails this week in which the media either failed to cover a story adequately or got it wrong — always in Trump's favor:

1. Putin Did Not “Endorse” Harris

2. Trump Admits He Lost

3. Trump and Vance Made Truly Horrible Statements

4. Covering the Wrong Stories

5. Trump’s Brain Failures

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/1

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/cover-trumps-mental-decline-now

Cover. Trump’s. Mental. Decline. Now.

5 more lousy corporate media fails

^{Scott Dworkin (The Dworkin Report)}

"The corporate media, however, have decided that it is no longer the job of its journalists and pundits to report and analyze information; rather they believe they must translate Donald’s nonsensical ramblings into a version of the English language we can all understand."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MentalDecline #sanewashing
/5

https://www.marytrump.org/p/translating-the-crazy

Translating the Crazy

Corporate media turns a blind eye

^{Mary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)}

I have a Ko-fi page I use as a "tip jar," for those interested in supporting my blogging efforts. Thank you!

https://ko-fi.com/diversetechgeek

#Kofi #blog #tech #media #SelfPromo

John Stoehr turns a cold eye on media malfeasance in letting Trump off the hook again and again and sanewashing his nonsense babble, since

"If he’s unfit to communicate, he’s unfit to serve."

And the media have an obligation to tell us this, not to function as "Trump’s assisted living program" and impose coherence, order, and meaning on meaningless spates of words.

John Stoehr

#Trump #media #sanewashing
/1

https://www.editorialboard.com/the-press-corps-is-trumps-assisted-living-program/

The press corps is Trump’s assisted living program

We are beyond “sane-washing.”

^{John Stoehr (The Editorial Board)}

Harris is getting the Al Gore treatment from Alex Thompson and the rest of the sadly influential Axios crew.

He’s almost single-handedly invented the narrative that “she's presenting a different ideology than four years ago” with a constant drumbeat of cheap, misleading gotcha pieces. It’s just the most pathetic hackery.
#media #HarrisWalz2024 #Election2024

Internationalen har fått en ny redaktionssekreterare!
Åsa Mattsson har lång erfarenhet som journalist på bla. Aftonbladet och har jobbat som pressekreterare för Vänsterpartiet.

https://internationalen.se/valkommen-ombord-asa/

#intervju #internationalen #vänsterpatiet #vänstermedia #media #intervju

#The19th wanted to ‘normalize’ #women in #power. In 2024, it’s dreaming bigger.

The nonprofit newsroom, entering its fifth year, is making new hires & planning to grow an endowment.

The birth of the 19th came in the wake of #HillaryClinton’s 2016 electoral loss — & a growing frustration that traditional #news #media wasn’t equipped to cover women in #political life.

#Equity #Women #LGBTQ+ #gender #journalism #politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/19th-news-site-ramshaw-lasharah-bunting/

without total control of media publishing, broadcasting, distribution & trading, there are no #techbro American billionaires; and without American #tech #billionaires, there is no American Fascism as we know it today.

if billionaires have no right to exist; neither their #media companies as we know them — the #FAANG & corporate media.

to kill American fascism you need to kill American corporate media as it is off and online.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending

#AmericanFascism #copyright

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal to lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with the four publishers, which accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

Promote whoever’s doing NYMag’s social media immediately…

#media #markrobinson #Election2024 #ncgov

Latest comic: Critics to ignore

#uspol #elections #2024election #kamala #KamalaHarris #women #gender #comic #cartoon #media

Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

#communications #media #cybersecurity

Jesus fucking Christ, NYT, was the Holocaust also an affordable housing plan?

These people have lost their damn minds.

#media #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #fascism #immigration #trump

from #MiddleEastEye
#Israel launches largest occupied #WestBank offensive since Second Intifada

Drones bomb #Jenin, #Tulkarm and #Tubas as the military begins major assault

By #FayhaShalash in Ramallah, occupied #Palestine and #HuthifaFayyad
Published date: 28 August 2024 05:35 BST

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-launches-largest-occupied-west-bank-offensive-second-intifada

#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Israel launches largest occupied West Bank offensive since Second Intifada

Israel launched its largest offensive on the occupied West Bank since the Second Intifada, attacking three cities - Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas - from land and air.

^{Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)}

Mark Knoller’s been around for a long time. He’s covered every POTUS since Gerry Ford. He absolutely knows that there’s a tradition of newly nominated tickets giving joint interviews after their party’s convention.

He’s just a fucking hack. Has been for a long time.

#media #Election2024

#DeclassifiedUK | Amber de Botton: From #DowningStreet to the #Guardian

"Doesn’t her appointment further highlight that the paper, far from being a challenger of the establishment, is really a voice for it, but somewhat disguised underneath occasional critical reporting and its ‘liberal’ facade?"

https://www.declassifieduk.org/amber-de-botton-from-downing-street-to-the-guardian/

#DumpTheGuardian #Media #Propaganda #Tories

Amber de Botton: From Downing Street to the Guardian

Why would the Guardian employ a Tory prime minister’s spin doctor as its new communications chief?

^{MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)}

What is the big flip-flop? Harris said she’d sign the bipartisan #immigration bill* #Biden negotiated and #Trump killed, which has, among other things, a provision to use funds previously allocated for a wall under Trump but not yet spent.

*It’s a shitty bill but this is an election year

#media #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-flip-flops-border-wall

How many two-time popular vote losers who attempted a crackpot coup d'état have been elected, Marc?

Six of the 49 Veeps who preceded Harris have gone on to win the WH. “Sitting” is doing a lot of ̶o̶b̶f̶u̶s̶c̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ work here.

#Election2024 #media #HarrisWalz2024 #trump

"The #media completely blowing the election coverage is allowing #Harris to run as the 1st post-media president

Instead of meeting a threat to democracy, careerist clickbaiters have both-sidesed, fact-checked trivia, and asked pointless questions

2024's massive media fail"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 🧵1/...
🎁 #GiftLink https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/media-elections-dnc-kamala-harris-military-20240827.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

Concentration camp. The accurate term would be "concentration camp."

I'm really sick and tired of the euphemisms used by the American media.

#media #Palestine

It was actually the Nebraska *Junior* Chamber of Commerce. Impeach!

This is an Axios reporter promoting and lending legitimacy to a moronic gotcha from The Washington Free Bacon.

#media #Election2024 #TimWalz #HarrisWalz2024

👏🏻

Via Victor Shi:

Now, THIS is what you call a headline. Bravo, LA Times.

#Harris #Trump #media

Forgive the X link but it does seem that the Beyoncé rumor was started by Dems, including some connected to the WH.

Can't say for sure that it was to get more eyeballs on Kamala's speech and ultimately drive Trump further over the edge by juicing her ratings but I hope it was.

I want them to get how our attention economy works and be just a little ruthless in their efforts to kick Trump's ass and save our democracy. Stakes are too high for niceties.

#media #DNC2024

https://x.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1826827605330329850

from #CommonDreams
Major #Union Backing #Harris-#Walz Joins Call for #Palestinian American to Speak at #DNC

"If we want peace, if we want real democracy, and if we want to win this election," the #UAW said, "the #DemocraticParty must allow a Palestinian American speaker to be heard from the DNC stage tonight."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dnc-palestine-protest

#Uncommitted #UnitedAutoWorkers
#ShawnFain
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #KamalaHarris
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Major Union Backing Harris-Walz Joins Call for Palestinian American to Speak at DNC

"If we want peace, if we want real democracy, and if we want to win this election," the UAW said, "the Democratic Party must allow a Palestinian American speaker to be heard from the DNC stage tonight."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

"Addicted to horse-race election coverage, the political press just can’t stop looking for ways to give Trump every single benefit of the doubt, all in an effort to create some supposed level playing field.

Case in point – check out the so-called fact-checkers."

~ Justin Baragona

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/20

https://zeteo.com/p/the-washington-posts-embarrassing

The Washington Post's 'Embarrassing' Fact-Check Shows Why 'Both Sides' Journalism Always Fails

Plus, Fox News not bothered by its anchor peddling an election lie, and a right-wing troll gets trolled.

^{Justin Baragona (Zeteo)}

"Today we were able to get CNN to change a bogus headline in only 24 minutes, and tonight we trended #AmericaNeedsWalz to fight back against the media’s constant attacks on Tim Walz, already garnering over 100 million impressions."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/20

"Our campaigns are dominating the trends on social media, garnering billions of impressions over the last two weeks. We are also pressing forward with our rapid response coverage to get ahead of the mainstream media’s pro-Trump agenda."

~ Scott Dworkin

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/19

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/tim-walz-rocks-dem-convention-with

Tim Walz Rocks Dem Convention With Powerful Acceptance Speech

This is how it's done

^{Scott Dworkin (The Dworkin Report)}