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"The Fourth Estate is failing America": RNC showcases how Trump exploits an "incompetent" media
"The Fourth Estate is failing America": RNC showcases how Trump exploits an "incompetent" media
"News organizations continue to go after pinpoints of stories here and there while forgetting the bigger picture"
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED JULY 18, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)
(Salon) On Monday, Donald Trump made an appearance at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. His face was bandaged from the injury he received from a failed assassination attempt last Saturday in Pennsylvania. The bandage is his badge of pride and courage, a symbol of the blood sacrifice he wants his MAGA people to believe that he is prepared to make to protect them as he becomes Americas first dictator.
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In a post on Twitter, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who is a leading scholar of fascism and authoritarianism, pushed back against the deceptive claim that Trump and the other Republicans want to tone down the violent political rhetoric and resulting danger in the aftermath of Saturdays attempted assassination: "The pivot delusion/propaganda point has returned! Sorry but Trumps idea of unity is everyone behind him or else .He tells his own supporters that if they vote for him and die it will be worth it. No pivoting out of that.
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D. Earl Stephens is the author of Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trumps Very Important Letters."
.....I guess that's as much sarcasm as I can muster right now ... Instead of reporting on one of the most significant stories in American history, our corporate media has instead busied themselves trying to drive a dangerous narrative, and Joe Biden out of this race. Endless breathtaking coverage. Endless new cycles. Such drama! Imagine if they spent even half of this time sounding the alarms and reporting on the GOP's unrelenting attack on our freedoms and our Democracy. What in the hell is going on in these newsrooms? Republicans are literally telling us there will once again be violence if they don't get the results they want in November. Is there even one reason we shouldn't believe them? Why isn't our broken media taking this extraordinary threat seriously?
While Joe Biden was hosting NATO leaders this week, who, by the way, are in almost unanimous agreement that this man needs to remain as our president, Donald Trump was hosting the fascist prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban. And just what in the hell is going on here? You'd think a serious working press would be on top of that one to help explain it to us all, and the dangers of authoritarian rule.
This is what keeps me up at night. The Fourth Estate is failing America spectacularly right now. .................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/18/the-fourth-estate-is-failing-america-rnc-showcases-how-exploits-an-incompetent-media/
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"The Fourth Estate is failing America": RNC showcases how Trump exploits an "incompetent" media (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2024
OP
True Blue American
(18,208 posts)1. I agree 100%.
CrispyQ
(38,584 posts)2. I realize there isn't a single thing that's responsible for how "news" has changed,
but it seems the 24x7 news cycle is a big part of it. When I was a kid we had half an hour of local news in the morning, at noon, & again around dinner. National news was only at dinner. There was no 24x7 news cycle where shows had to produce ratings to get advertising dollars. We profitized "the news" & now there's so much of it that has no value, you have to be a savvy news consumer.
I check sources out on this site & found them to be pretty accurate.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com