"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."
As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.
~ Dan Froomkin
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump
"Our top journalists continue to fundamentally cover up Trump’s derangement and incoherence. The man is lying almost constantly, gaslighting at full throttle, but the news coverage sanewashes his nonsense with euphemisms like “freestyle diplomacy.”
They cover this war largely as a political story, with most of the news coming out of the (lying) White House.
In their brief moments of access, they ask lame questions that get useless answers."
@wdlindsy mainstream media is owned and operated by the Epstein class. It’s not a failure, it’s working as intended. I realized this when they made sure Biden had to drop out due to his age and health issues but completely ignored Donald’s when he was against the comparatively young and sharp Kamala Harris
They’re not on our side. They never really were
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Between 90s commercial breaks they feed your amiglya sound bites of outrage, disgust, calculated nonsense, and lies of omission. It's eingeneered to keep you in a state of agitation poised between fight or flight.
All of that, as obscene and corrosive to well being as it is, all of that is done to effect the primary goal of selling your viewership at an advertising auction. Your not even the person news is being made for. Your the fucking product being sold. A pig in a CAFO creating shareholder value.
Trump gets the attention of the media because he sells fear & fear sells advertising.
Billionaires hire the best marketing people in the world for their skills at social engineering & terror management theory.
They hijack the news cycle & the electorate's amygdala.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201903/how-political-rhetoric-inspires-white-nationalist-terror
Fostering fake existential dread & neurotic anxiety in white nationalists is why Trump got elected.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/donald-trump-and-the-politics-of-fear/498116/
You now see, publishing news has nothing to do with publishing news.
Its all just making money. Journalists make money spreading all the lies and lies. Thats the reason they spread them.
If at one point, no one is interested or reading those lies = no money, only then it will end.
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