Pauline von HellermannStarted watching #Newsnight last night; thought it would be good to check in on mainstream news narratives. Saw that one of the guests was from Breitbart news. Completely normalised. Switched off.
@pvonhellermannn Disgusting, then again, not really a surprise. The media's role in normalising fascism can be observed in many countries. In Germany it is a regular occurrence, regular guests on talk-shows, breakfast TV, they are all over the place, and when the public complaints about the frequency, they respond with "pluralistic public obligation", whereby it is nothing but a deliberate false balance production.
@Unknowable It’s so bad. What i find particularly scary is how quickly we all, including myself, find things “normal” that are really not OK, and that we didn’t use to find normal or OK at all. Just because we see them again and again. #ShiftingBaselineSyndrom a useful concept for norms, too.
@pvonhellermannn The global network of fascists is the true driver of this shifting baseline. The U.S. Vice President supporting the master saboteur in the European Union, Putin's puppet, is only the tip of the iceberg. By Orban's playbook, they literally act, undermining all levels of society, from education, over media, small town politics, you name it. This power grab, where "conservative" parties act as their stirrup holder, it is happening everywhere. #governancefailure