Jay RosenFeb 9, 2023

Clown car hearings exploit a weakness in mainstream journalism's source code, which gives no clear instructions for how to report truthfully on events that are themselves false, meaning they spring from a propagandistic intent and taking them seriously only furthers the scam.

And yet: They can't be ignored because they show what the Republican party does with its power.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-panel-probes-twitter-block-hunter-biden-story-2023-02-08/

#uspolitics #uspol #journalism

Former Twitter execs tell Republicans they erred on Hunter Biden laptop story

Former Twitter executives told a Republican-led U.S. House committee on Wednesday that they made a mistake by blocking tweets about a laptop said to belong to President Joe Biden's son Hunter but said government officials were not involved.

Reuters
Show threadDan AnconaFeb 9, 2023
@jayrosen_nyu that is an absolutely WILD headline to take away from that shitshow. Way to make your readers more stupid.
Show threadSpicewalla

@danancona @jayrosen_nyu

Its basically the way CBS covered it this morning too. If anything, CBS was even more propaganda-friendly by reporting all the accusations first and then only reporting the rebuttals.

CBS didn't even mention the hypocrisy of maga demanding the removal of tweets that hurt the crybaby-in-chiefs feelings.

Feb 9, 2023 at 3:52pmWeb
Show threadDan AnconaFeb 9, 2023
@Spicewalla @jayrosen_nyu Horrifying. One of the projects I’m working on in the background is a news source for people who aren’t on twitter/masto and don’t want to be to know what’s going on anyway. Hard nut to crack but we need to start running some experiments.