Mastodawn

The debt limit sprains the both sides brain.

Read Dan Froomkin:

"Extremist Republicans have been enabled by media coverage that tries to split the difference, and treats what is essentially a hostage crisis created exclusively by one side as a normal, two-sided partisan squabble. Indeed, our top political reporters now insist that the onus is on Biden to solve the problem."

https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

#uspol #journalists #journalism

Republicans threaten to tank economy. Media blames Biden. - Press Watch

The nation is not “barreling toward default,” nor is it “careening,” or even “drifting” there. It is being pushed there by Republicans.

Press Watch - An intervention for American political journalism

Seth Goldstein Apr 28, 2023

I'm not the hugest fan of Biden, but the media has been very unfair to him

Southern Leftist Apr 28, 2023

@seth
He's underrated. Sure, he's geriatric, but look the infrastructure, economy, and much-needed gun control and other well-crafted legislation he's passed.

Better than any Bush, Trump, or other neocon/conservative that's shit on us for Wall Street.

To clarify, I'm a Dem who hates Bush, Reagan, and Trump.

3ln4ch0 Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu MMT is the way

Matthew Nadler Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu they really can't help themselves, can they?

Jay Rosen Apr 28, 2023

Correct.

Steve Popovich Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu if it bleeds, it leads. The media want drama.

Dogzilla Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu I’m trying to avoid the conclusion that the people who make up American mass media just aren’t very smart and are deeply prone to the most basic of manipulation. But they don’t make it easy

anubis2814 Apr 28, 2023

@Dogzilla @jayrosen_nyu Cable news is just an ad company using "news" as a vehicle for more ads.

Matt Apr 28, 2023

@anubis2814 @jayrosen_nyu @Dogzilla TV is an entertainment medium. TV news is #AmusingOurselvesToDeath

LiberalTalkingPoints Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu They are trying to immanentize the eschaton for the US dollar.

bassplayer Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu Meanwhile treasury prints more money that we don't have to cover runs on banks whose only crime was to purchase US bonds which up until now used to be stable and worth something. The feds monetary policy has the biggest impact on our economy. Not the executive branch. The whole system is based on debt.

Southern Leftist Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu
"He who desires a painless celling lift will be terrorized with MAGA and default."
- The Reactionary's Gospel, 9:9:9

GATEKEEPER Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu
If the debt of the US was zero , nothing would be different.
There would still be the GQP trying to grift a little more.

Lady Gee Apr 28, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu the Supreme Court, big media, gerrymandered states. Corrupt congress. We are hanging by a thread here and if I hear Marianne William’s name again I’m going to. 🔥🚀

msgbi Markus Sagebiel Apr 29, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu @charles_ex 2 party autocracy

DamnKimberlee May 5, 2023

@jayrosen_nyu if we the people--we’re actively supporting our President properly--we’d be boycotting the corporations who are funding the seditious assault on Democracy. Without money--it stops.