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Jay Rosen Feb 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

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Clinical Rawlsian Feb 9, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu IDK, the Democratic party uses its power mostly to try and help people (though frequently imperfectly and halfheartedly) and the MSM does a pretty good job of ignoring that.

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Clinical Rawlsian

@jayrosen_nyu I think journalists reluctance to both ignore bullshit like this or accurately reported as bullshit comes as much from several decades of the right successfully working the refs whining about liberal media bias as it arises from any inherent contradictions in journalistic ethics and practice.