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With democracy in free fall, the media must (finally) wake up

Plus: a piece of heartening news amid the barrage of horrors

American Crisis
#MargaretSullivan @theguardian.com journalist and former public editor for the @nytimes.com talks with #CourtAccountabilityAction’s @lisagraves.bsky.social about corporate media capitulation to Trump, including the decision by #Disney/ABC to suspend and then reinstate Kimmel youtu.be/OHBlB7QZl4U?...

ABC Pays the PRICE as Trump SC...
ABC Pays the PRICE as Trump SCREWS THEM

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#MargaretSullivan quoting #JosephONeill “I am sure Trump will overreach. It is up to the opposition to make him pay for his overreaches. It is not our job to help him ‘succeed.’ It’s not our job to ‘unite the country’ or, as President Biden has suggested ‘turn down the temperature.’ It’s our job to make Trump fail, fail again, fail worse.” #USPol #AmericanCrisis

https://open.substack.com/pub/margaretsullivan/p/get-past-the-blame-game-ideas-for?r=pmcrr&utm_medium=ios

Get past the blame game. Ideas for how to move forward

Don’t give in to despair — that’s what autocrats thrive on

American Crisis

Historians: He’s a fascist. Political scientists: He’s a fascist. His own aides: He’s a fascist.

The NYT: He shows a wistful longing for a bygone era of global politics.

About those New York Times headlines
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/about-those-new-york-times-headlines

#MargaretSullivan #NYT #NewYorkTimes #VoteBlueToSaveEveryone #TrumpFascism #Fascism #USPol

About those New York Times headlines

Yes, I do care to explain

American Crisis

Check out #MargaretSullivan 's excellent critiques of legacy media failures....

...at a critical cross roads for American #democracy

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com

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No, #MargaretSullivan of the #Guardian. Musk is not "reckless".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/17/elon-musk-antisemitism-social-media-hate-speech-

Let’s be very clear about what Musk *is* and what he most certainly *is not*.

He does not misunderstand history. He is a product of the white supremacist Apartheid mindset he bathed in growing up in 1980s South Africa. The proper understanding of the basis of Apartheid starts with recognising exactly how this white supremacist ideology justified itself, and phrased those who stood against it.

By affirming an antisemitic trope, Elon Musk sinks to a dangerous new low

The owner of X has the power to elevate the hateful speech of others and bring about enormous harm

The Guardian
The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault

With democracy in the balance, the press must relay the crucial importance of this election and the dangers of a Trump win

The Guardian
Elon Musk’s hypocrisy about free speech hits a new low

It’s ‘free speech for me, but not for thee’ in his world – he doesn’t like it, he sues

The Guardian
Trump is hoping his ‘free speech’ defense will work. It won’t

The first amendment is powerful but it doesn’t protect criminal behavior

The Guardian
It is frightening to see how #journalists (even those supposedly knowing about #media, like #MargaretSullivan @TheGuardian) realise how and why #Twitter failed them and us as a digital public space but entirely fail to draw any meaningful conclusions for themselves. Instead they willingly stumble into the next #platform dependency that will harm independent #journalism and degrade public discourse.