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
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@jayrosen_nyu but journalism does know what to do with people reporting false information as true. That’s part of its mission and part of its core. Say, rather that journalism has been prevented from functioning by systemic failures brought about by corporate ownership diluting its brand, compromising the integrity of the process in a manner complicit to increase confusion and weaken the base by poisoning the well.

Call it what it is. Complicity for purposes of control.

Feb 10, 2023 at 11:31amWeb