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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
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Oct 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
One day I’ll be wrong for the first time ever but today is not that day ImageImageImageImage
A weird truth about modern American journalism is that headline writers just really suck. There’s no explanation for it. You can write a great story and it gets summarily fucked by a bored and grumpy headline writer who stopped trying their hardest in 2004
I also don’t understand how the producers who write chyrons are so bad but they also just are bad for some reason Image
The reason this matters for real is that on election night Trump will falsely claim victory to shape the narrative as votes are still being counted, almost certainly showing Biden with 6-8 million more votes than him, and people waking up Nov. 4 will see “Trump Claims Victory”
Trump’s entire strategy is to overturn the results with lawsuits about “mail-in ballot fraud,” a fake thing he made up. But the GOP will support him if enough people believe it’s possible, the same way they supported him because Barr manipulated the media with the Mueller summary
It’s so easy to change this lazy headline writing template and yet we never will. This is the approach at every mainstream outlet: agenda heds that deliberately ignore the news (Trump endorsing QAnon) because Biden didn’t do something equally atrocious
https://t.co/oBU5U4HHNZ
The problem is that apparently nobody in the journalism industry thinks this is a problem worth addressing. This is completely psychotic:

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This article validates every “lock her up” Republican plainly acting in bad faith today by repeating a bullshit talking point and even states in Serious Newsvoice that the raid “drew the ire of conservatives who decried the search as an abuse of power” in service of that bullshit
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The extremely simple reason that the news media is covering “Doors Killed The Kids” seriously is because the news media is Republican
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May 25, 2022
Journalists will cover shit like this if you fucking do it
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