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this is great. The NYT responses are pathetic (especially to criticism of calling Karoline Leavitt "fierce and nimble" in a subheadline without mentioning she's a propagandist and serial liar) establishment media ownership seeks out and hires people who'll coddle and defend ownership ideology

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

nytimes.comVideo: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About TrumpIn this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

If you're brutally honest about Republicans and fascists you'll lose access to sources, alienate advertisers, potentially risk total subscribership, and make (usually white rich male ownership) mad, so as a result you get this sort of formless, mushy, journalistic simulacrum that normalizes fascism

15/10/26, 5:08 pm9 reposts89 likes

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

this is then normalized through conditioning over decades by the hiring of a particular type of person and a firing of most of the people who speak truth to power, all while critics get defensive lectures about how everything is fine and ownership interests are perfectly firewalled from editorial