mccJun 15, 2023
I dunno it just doesn't really make sense to me how much the media is going on in Trump's indictment/arraignment is UNPRECEDENTED and NORM-BREAKING. It's precedented! It's normal. Spiro Agnew got arrested. Spiro Agnew got sentenced!. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Speaker of the House in history, was charged afterward for hush money payments to cover up child molestation. He went to actual prison. *Donald Trump* has been indicted? Before? In the last year? What's so new here
Show threadLacciJun 15, 2023
@mcc
It's starting to get awfully awfully specific in terms of firsts. I think this is the first federal indictment of a former president, I think the previous indictment was by the state of New York. Much of the media are basically a hype machine now, they want everything to be as dramatic as possible to get as many eyeballs as they can. The people in charge are ok with not covering the right stories or covering anything all that well as long as people are paying attention.
Show threadLacciJun 15, 2023
@mcc
I think it's kind of an arms race against themselves that they're losing (except the far right hyping people willing to hype all the way to violence). The more the media go all in on hype the more of it they have to use to get any attention. And we end up with stuff like weird obsessive coverage of nothing at all happening with a tragic plane crash and endless gaps covering critical stories. And lies/misrepresentations cause they think that angle gets attention. :(
Show threadKevin Karhan 
@Lacci @mcc that's because the fash know to weaponize the press and broker on the #unaccountability that the #ConsequenceFreeSpeech culture in the #USA fosters...
Jun 15, 2023 at 1:31amWeb