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/

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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 threadMatt L

@jayrosen_nyu which is why republicans do them constantly...and the po-faced, faux-responsible establishment Democrat position over the past few years...to not rake over every aspect of what Trump and his minions did in public hearings, because they

"didn't want to divide us further"

and

"were looking forward not back"

etc..was such a catastrophe. News, and especially TV news, are addicted to hearings and court cases and you try to generate as much of both as possible.

Feb 9, 2023 at 4:44pmWeb