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over at the newsletter I wrote about the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and the pitiful complicity of our broken brunchlord access press

karlbode.comA Broken Press Gathers This Weekend To Normalize Fascism Over CocktailsThe brunchlord American press gathers every year to pretend they hold power accountable. This year it teeters out of unethical farce and into complicity.

Joanne

@jewellerjo.bsky.social

23 Apr

Serious question from Europe: are Americans generally ok with the fact so many ‘journalists’ are seriously well-connected, often very rich, nepo babies? Jenna Bush, Willie Geist, Luke Russert, Ronan Farrow, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Meghan McCain, Mika Brzezinski, to name just a few.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

no, they're increasingly hostile to it. Trust in journalism is at an all time low. But all the monied interests are motivated to create a lazy infotainment simulacrum that's increasingly getting worse. So a lot of people are shifting their attention to influencers or newsletters.

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Doug

@dwcrooks.bsky.social

25 Apr

This is true for a segment of Americans who aren’t naive; I suspect a large population of non-MAGAts are unaware of how bad everything is and just presume Trump isn’t _that_ bad and things are mostly normal