Dan GillmorWe are living through an increasingly successful plot to end the American experiment.
One reason, though hardly the only one, is that journalists have normalized the extremist movement that organized and is carrying out the plot.
Class Wario@dangillmor for profit
Pete@dangillmor @classwario BOOM! Right here. As soon as the News Divisions became profit centers, the writing was on the wall. Wasn’t immediately apparent, but it was there. Other factors thrown in for sure, but the money-magnetic pull was strong enough to overwhelm real journalism. I grew up watching Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley and others. It’s a new world.
Dannyboyguyman@dangillmor the reactionaries worked the refs so long and well that the refs now work themselves
Gerard Cunningham ✒️
One Butt Cheek Too Many@dangillmor The mistake is seeing this administration as the only part of that attempt. Every administration for at least the past fifty years is guilty.
bubbajet@dangillmor @lisamelton It’s the editors and owners. I think it’s time for people - us - to start promoting news outlets that call it like it is even if they’re not “mass media.”
The Contrarian
Cafe Media
Popular Information
Joyce Vance
Heather Cox Richardson
Lucid (Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
Teri Kanefield
Paul Krugman
The list goes on…
Jeaniesmaug@bubbajet @dangillmor @lisamelton Heather Cox Richardson is some one who calls it like it is? 😂 She calls half of it what it is, ignoring the other and pretending this doesn't make her just absolute normalizing noise.
Mastodon Migration@bubbajet @dangillmor @lisamelton
Wish these folks could realize that they had better combine their independence with a switch to public digital media. Because if they stay on corporate platforms like Substack and Bluesky their 'independence' from oligarchic control is going to be short lived.
Chad J@dangillmor July 4, 2026; this is when I think it ends.
Kris@dangillmor I have a Samsung g9 super ultra wide but mostly use it for sim racing. Than a boring old 16:9 on my desk.
rouxdoo √A different thought - the editors, owners and journalists are not to blame here (although their malfeasance can not be ignored).
We are now in an age where podcasters and influencers are being granted press credentials to the White House briefing room.
Perhaps the change in how we interact with our government and our elected officials is the basis for the change we see?
Can we make our new reality conform to our view of norm or do we need to change how we interact with it?
RationizedInsanity🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸@dangillmor Most of the time, popular journalism just follows where the money is.
Whatever story gets the most attention at any cost, even if it's society.
It's just a part of the greater problem of money ending up in the hands of people who should never have a single dollar.
Dean F.@dangillmor Oh, you've noticed that too?
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7@dangillmor I've rarely to have not seen anybody report "quid quo pro" is illegal in demanding CA do stuff to get Federal Aid for the fires.
Basically now normalised, and Dems in Congress are silent.
Bill Zaumen@dangillmor There's a related reason for why they want immigrants, particularly those who had to leave countries with authoritarian governments, out of of here: those immigrants can clue us in from first hand experience as to how you install a police state.
Kevin Morgan@dangillmor I’d argue that it’s media ownership, and not so much journalists.
The problem is that most of the media is owned by the oligarchs, and the journalists they hire have to be compliant, or they’re eliminated. So, it’s those specific journalists who remain, and not journalists in general.
Unfortunately, this leaves many otherwise great journalists forced out of the profession.
Army Girl@dangillmor one reason is also that "journalist" has no meaning anymore.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴..."plot," as in, the #TrumpCoup, right?
Weird Christmas, Rev. (rev.)@dangillmor If "The Am Exp" is democracy, then what we've found is that it's not compatible with technology that amplifies communication according to corporate incentives/monopolizing combined with a meager education and social support system. "Democracy" might still work, but not in this kind of tech-corporate-consumerist environment. We all act like democracy is "just voting" while everything else is almost 100% consumer attitudes towards everything else. That's true of the right and left.
SearingTruth"Any Americans who still wonder how Adolf Hitler could have brought Germany to its knees, and the globe to its destruction, are sleeping so soundly they cannot be woken."
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