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you can't talk about US politics and polling honestly without having a conversation about how the American news and information diet is comprised of infotainment sewage and agitprop. Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.

techdirt.comBari Weiss Gets To Work ‘Fixing’ CBS ‘Bias’ — By Making It More BiasedFor more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs is “biased” and therefore must be dis…

not only do you have a vast right wing propaganda network that's growing all the time (NY Post, Fox News, Sinclair, AM Radio, now CBS, probably soon TikTok), you have a corporate press that's been fecklessly bullied for a generation to be soft on Republicans lest they be accused of "liberal bias"

on one end you have this massive right wing propaganda bullhorn lying about what Democrats stand for bolstered by a corporate press that's routinely gamed by Republicans to validate and amplify these lies then you have pundits wondering why the electorate so often votes against its best interests

just play along with me at home: any time you read journalism on U.S. politics, polling, or electorate's beliefs, see if it makes ANY mention of the U.S. public's news and information diet, or that ANYTHING AT ALL might be a bit rotten in the way the U.S. public gets informed on the issues

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none of this, it should be clear, excuses shitty dem proposals and messaging, or their failure to recognize media policy reform as something they've neglected for a generation but I can't respect any journalism or reports that can't recognize the extremely effective Republican information assault

yes, it is 4AM Pacific time and this is the sort of stuff I wake up pissed off about

khaworth.bsky.social

@khaworth.bsky.social

Now go back and re-watch presidential debates for the past 20 years, and notice how many of the questions are framed by GOP talking points.

Starr

@starrceline.bsky.social

@bigdogmomthree.bsky.social

it’s justified rage our media regularly gaslights us they gaslight anyone on the left or with minority status much too often

Pamela Parkington 🐝

Same 😑

Greg Wilson

@joke2power.bsky.social

For 40+yrs, the phrase "class war" was used by msm against liberal Ds while Rs were cutting taxes for the rich to benefit the wealthy, waging class war against the poor & working class; the words "elitist & condescending" were used by msm against informed Libs & Ds who warned public abt R policies

🎃Spooky Salty KD 🧂🐸 🚫👑

@drkimberlyd.bsky.social

Thank you for this! I was just debating this with an incredibly obtuse journalist earlier this week—media absolutely shapes perception. Denying that is wildly unrealistic and seeing this in print is reassuring for some reason! Also up at 6 AM Mountain for the same reason!

you'll find most mainstream outlet journalists were hired specifically FOR their inability to see this problem, or any lack of courage to challenge it

chemborg

@chemborg.bsky.social

same

Joe Gannon

@jmgannon.bsky.social

@erstwhilecon.bsky.social

More same. To this day I don’t understand why people show up to work at Fox.

Skotty Skeets

"Over those 11 years, the share of congressional Democratic co-sponsors of a bill to study reparations for the descendents of slaves rose from 1% to 57%." Hard to respect a writer who can't spell "descendants," while citing a "bill to study" that few voters ever heard of.

I Am Antifa

@iglover.bsky.social

You nailed it. The Semafor article is garbage. We are faced with a media system that constantly tells us what we think and believe. It is always picking apart the left as being out of touch while ignoring rot on the right. We do have some people so stuck to their purity tests that they can't /1

the consolidated corporate media onus is always on the left to shift further right while the right can literally murder people riding around in boats with only modest blowback

I Am Antifa

@iglover.bsky.social

See the forest for the trees, but the majority of us do see the big picture. If we can't get OUR message out, then all the side issues dems focus on will never see the light of day. It drives me crazy when people tell me what I believe based on garbage they heard on right wing radio and TV.

JP Stormcrow

@jpstormcrow.bsky.social