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Clayton Slaughter Jan 25

Kai Kupferschmidt

The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened.
The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened.
There is plenty of evidence.
Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.

ProScience 🇪🇺Jan 25

PlantagoLabs Jan 25

@kakape And the same journalists wonder why nobody trusts them 🤷

CartyBoston Jan 25

@kakape Yeah, the Post has finally begun to distinguish itself from the New York Times and not in a good way. Bezos is a tumor.

Ross of Ottawa Jan 25

@kakape they're so terrified they'll display a bias between left and right that they forget they have a basic responsibility to show a bias between truth and lies, right and wrong.

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦Jan 25

“If Jimmy Allred says it’s raining, and W. Lee O’Daniel says it isn’t raining, Texas newspapermen quote them both, and don’t look out the window to see which is lying, and to tell the readers what the truth is at the moment.”
- Hubert Mewhinney, Texas Spectator, late 1940s (alleged)
@kakape

@kakape alternative truth

@kakape One of my favorite quotes from The Newroom:

❝ Bias toward fairness means that if the entire congressional Republican caucus were to walk into the House and propose a resolution stating that the Earth was flat, the Times would lead with 'Democrats and Republican can't agree on shape of Earth'.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6dgBCjmiDrw

biased towards fairness - the newsroom

YouTube

bouriquet Jan 25

@kakape When that happens, all trust and credibility in the entire government is gone, lost.

Clearly that's not what their job is - not every newspaper shaped object is a newspaper.

My camera shoots fascists Jan 25

@jztusk @kakape

"Newspaper shaped object"
So good! This is how I will describe them from now on.

I stole it from the bicycle community, where they use "bicycle shaped object" to refer to cheap things that are sold as bicycles but don't work very well. 😁

@jztusk @Mikal @kakape I will borrow that

@Wen @Mikal @kakape

As my father used to say, "Take it and use it in good health!".

Steve Woods Jan 25

@kakape Just remind me, how much did Bezos donate to tRump?

#MakeAmericaGrateAgain

@kakape good lord, it’s like they’ve never heard the classic; “If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.”

David Michaels Jan 25

@kakape the federal government is afraid of the truth.

Recruiting gangbangers to masquerade as federal officers isn't acceptable. They murdered Alex Pretti.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️Jan 25

"Some say that journalists should strive to be “neutral”

I disagree....

When remaining “neutral” is used as an excuse to avoid stating uncomfortable truths — truths that might offend the powerful or the public — that is not journalism.

That is cowardice."

#Journalism #Press #Media #News #Journalists #Politics #Meme

Zhi Zhu 🕸️Jan 25

"If one politician states that it is raining, and another politician states that it is sunny, a journalist who simply quotes both politicians is not only being lazy, but is also FAILING at journalism.

A journalist's job is not simply to quote whatever a politician says.

A journalist's job is to “check the weather” and then report on the accuracy or inaccuracy of what has been said."

#Journalism #Press #Media #Journalists #Politics #Meme

Zhi Zhu 🕸️Jan 25

"Truth demands the free press pull no punches, even it that appears to be 'taking sides.' (Taking the side of truth is the media's job.)"
-Jennifer Rubin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/04/nabj-trump-interview-media-coverage/

#Truth #Journalism #Press #News #Media #Meme #Quote

TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀Jan 25

@ZhiZhu @kakape 👍👍

Jeff Mitchell Jan 25

Exactly. And the two can't be true simultaneously so isn't it part of their job to determine which is.

This type of reporting just continues to maintain a framework where facts don't matter, truth is what you choose to believe.

Everyone can see where that philosophy is heading.