Mastodawn

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/minneapolis-vs-donald-trump-ice-invasion.html

"The takes that trouble me come not from the bloodthirsty MAGA types (who do us a service in revealing the clarity of their longing) but from those who would define the center as existing somewhere between Good and her killer."

~ Kerry Howley

#AlexPretti #Trump #media #BothSides #lies #truth
/4

The People of Minneapolis vs. Donald Trump and ICE

Renee Good’s death at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross galvanized a city eager to rise up. Kerry Howley reports on the ground in Minneapolis, watching out for ICE at every corner, crosswalk, church, and school.

Intelligencer

"The footage says yes. The administration says no. Weiss says: let’s hear from both sides.

When you treat lies as one legitimate perspective among many, you are not being fair. You are being complicit. You are lending the authority of your institution to the project of deception. You are telling your audience that they cannot trust their own eyes, that reality is up for debate, that power gets to define what happened."

#AlexPretti #Trump #CBS #BariWeiss #media #BothSides #lies #truth
/3

"This is the false balance that has plagued American journalism for decades, but Weiss is taking it further. She is not just applying it to matters of opinion—should taxes be higher or lower, should we have more or less immigration—where reasonable people can disagree. She is applying it to matters of fact. Did the agents shoot a man who was trying to help someone?"

#AlexPretti #Trump #CBS #BariWeiss #media #BothSides #lies #truth
/2

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-6

"[Bari] Weiss is not saying that CBS should lie. She is saying that CBS should present lies and truth as equivalent. That the journalist who documents an execution and the administration spokesman who calls it self-defense should be given equal weight. That 'both sides' deserve representation, even when one side is simply making things up."

~ Mike Brock

#AlexPretti #Trump #CBS #BariWeiss #media #BothSides #lies #truth
/1

The Crisis, No. 6

On the architecture of unreality

Notes From The Circus

"Worry more about being called biased than about being accurate. Do all of this, consistently, for years, and you will be surprised when the things people warned you about come to pass. The surprise is built into the methodology.

There’s a cost to this."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/16

"Political journalism has developed a set of practices that make surprise the default response to predictable events. Treat every denial as meaningful. Frame every warning from advocacy groups as partisan overreach. Insist on a both-sides structure even when one side is lying."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/15

https://www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-literally-the-job

"We are now one year into Donald Trump’s second term, and something strange is happening in political media. A lot of people who spent years insisting that the so-called 'alarmists' were being hysterical have started, tentatively, to admit that maybe they got it wrong. …

At a certain point, you have to ask what it would take to not be surprised."

~ Parker Molloy

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/14

This is Literally the Job

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.

The Present Age

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-canada-became-an-enemy

"Trump’s cowardly enablers are largely responsible for the abyss America has plunged into."

~ Paul Krugman

#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists #Democrats #Republicans
/13

How Canada Became an Enemy

It’s not about trade, it’s about ego

Paul Krugman