Some things in modern life are not hard to figure out. You don’t have to be progressive—and it shouldn’t be partisan—to grasp that Nazis are bad and so is Nazism. Anyone who has a memory or taken a history class knows that millions of Americans fought to defend American principles and democracy itself against the Nazi march across the world. To be more specific, over 16 million Americans fought in WWII, over 400,000 sacrificed their lives and nearly 700,000 were wounded to defend America’s allies and democracy.
See the attachment for Josh Marshall's apt description of "both sides" journalism.
As I've said before, "both sides" is not primarily a truth-seeking practice, but a refuge-seeking one.
"Press bias avoidance" as Josh calls it, is not about depicting what happened. Not in the main, I mean. Rather it's a pre-response by journalists to criticisms they have anticipated or internalized.
Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.
MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p
Judge Mehta has called a conference for 9:15 in the Oath Keeper sedition trial this morning.
That's unusual.👀
I hope none of the jurors got sick over the holiday weekend.
Steven Beschloss
Jay Rosen
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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