Mastodawn

TC Won't Give In To Lies Mar 28, 2024

@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.

@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.

LeaBug Mar 28, 2024

@wdlindsy it means we don't want to listen to a lying insurrectionist anymore.

@LeaBug Not sure what "it" is in your statement.

Grant Mar 28, 2024

@wdlindsy

" This industry, which prizes objectivity above all else "

Maybe he's been asleep for the last ~30yrs, but if he'd bothered, he could have watched that idea falling apart, led by the truly odious Rupert Murdoch, who hasn't even the tiniest interest in 'objectivity'. All he's interested in is the most effective way to get more cash and division achieves exactly that.

@gsymon Perhaps by "prizes," he means something journalists claim to cherish while belying that claim by their actual practice?

Determinerik

🇵🇸Mar 28, 2024

@wdlindsy
And we're living in a world where a politician who was fully aware of Israel killing civilians since early october, and still continued to arm them to this day, actively aiding a genocide, is considered 'normal'.

Kid Mania Mar 29, 2024

@determinerik @wdlindsy
Interesting choices, eh? Especially when we consider the bipartisan support Israel enjoys. It's fascinating that two parties that apparently want to tear each other apart both agree on this particular issue.

Determinerik

🇵🇸Mar 29, 2024

@clintruin @wdlindsy it's fascism or fascism-with-glitters

@determinerik I'd say we're living in a world in which powerful forces have made it well-nigh impossible for political leaders of either party to break from full-throttled support of Israel, though what Israel is now doing may, at long last, push at least many Democrats away from that full-throttled support. I'd also say anyone dreaming that Trump would offer a better alternative to what's happening with Israel-Gaza is deeply deluded, and attacking Biden only boosts Trump, so I refuse to do it.

krunch 🌈🏳️‍⚧️Mar 30, 2024

@wdlindsy NBC is owned by Comcast, a publicly traded corporation beholden to shareholders and execs who want as much money as possible, they will do anything for those goals, nothing else matters to them.