William Lindsey Mar 28, 2024

"NBC — and most of the press — have yet to accept the reality that this is not a normal election between a Republican and a Democrat. Donald Trump and his enablers represent an extraordinary threat to democracy. This industry, which prizes objectivity above all else, is incapable of accurately covering an election where one candidate is a normal politician and the other is a dishonest, corrupt insurrectionist."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#NBC #RonnaMcDaniel #Trump #normalization

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NBC Proves the Media Can't Save Democracy

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@wdlindsy
I appreciate you're just providing a quote, but I call BS on this framing that media "...prizes objectivity above all else"

What they prize is money and the largest audience possible. THAT is why they want to platform gas lighting rightwing lies. They want to broaden their audience.

If they cared about *objectivity*, there would be more fact-checking, bans on discredited sources and coverage as a battle of political systems not a horserace.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 29, 2024
@TCatInReality My reading of what Dan Pfeiffer writes leads me to think he's not describing how media actually function when he uses the word "prizes" here, but is describing the aspirational claims of media, which media frequently belie by their actual behavior.