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23 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The subtext of every U.S. coronavirus milestone that the news media can't touch is plain: We are a country held hostage by selfish, stupid and stubborn Republican science-deniers who will never do the right thing and wear a mask. It's not some mystery. We are run by dumbasses.
So much news coverage of the pandemic is passive "rates going up" and "states going in the wrong direction" as if we're some monolith experiencing a scientific anomaly. The truth is we were never "all in this together." Republicans don't believe it's real and that's all it is.
An honest news media that wasn't afraid of being accused of bias by bad-faith right-wing trolls would frame this uniquely American pandemic the way most journalists do privately: Republicans Drive Coronavirus Rates Up For 34th Straight Week
It's just amazing. Republicans admit they don't want to stop spreading coronavirus and the media refuses to frame it this way. It's always "America Struggles With Spread." They are outright saying they don't give a shit about it:
They're not shy about it! This isn't like their mass veiled racism vs. out-loud Trump racism. All Republicans are pro-covid. They believe masks don't work and the virus isn't bad. It's so fucked up that the news media doesn't call this what it is.
WEBMD AND DR. FAUCI: Wear a mask. It will save lives.

REPUBLICANS: Hard pass.

NEWS MEDIA:

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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
22 Oct
My favorite part of the 60 Minutes interview is when Trump doesn't want to answer a question about masks so he tells Lesley Stahl "next question, go ahead" and she says "OK" and asks another question. Some real Meet the Press energy
Oh cool Stahl asking Trump about Hunter Biden's laptop. Let's see if he has anything substantive to say about this issue. He's the President, he might have good information
The go-off-king reaction to Swan's interview was a little obnoxious because he simply countered Trump's lies with facts, the baseline of what any journalist should do in an interview with a liar. But it's a gold standard compared with asking Trump "do you think..." on everything
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22 Oct
The mainstream media must be dissolved
COMIN IN AT NUMBER ONE
What the fuck is this fucking horseshit
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21 Oct
(Democratic Senator, 2029) I don’t watch the President’s twitch stream
Has the gamestream media reported this
Dreaming of hosting a Sunday show on twitch called "L33t the Press" with @AOC as inaugural guest
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
16 Oct
One day I’ll be wrong for the first time ever but today is not that day
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
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
14 Oct
The news media has been painfully sluggish to adapt to Trump. 20 days before an election that he has promised to overturn and disrupt with white supremacist militia “poll watchers,” an autocrat who only lies as he gasses his own people is given a network town hall at his request
Covering Trump the right way is not hard intellectually—it’s only difficult with the artificial shackles journalists place on themselves. They believe their job is to ask the leader of a white supremacist cult who has killed 220,000 people what he thinks about the news of the day Image
The goal of the interview is “get him to make news”—a crazy quote that belongs in a headline and is covered elsewhere. The goal is not to prove he doesn’t read his intelligence briefings or doesn’t know basic facts about covid. It’s to get Trump to want to come back for another
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7 Oct
Today is a sobering day: the four-year anniversary of the Access Hollywood “pussy" tape. As I do every year, I will be live-tweeting the events of that day as they occurred.
It was a pristine, crisp autumn day. Not a cloud in the sky, the trees slowly shedding their summer green coats. It was a month before the 2016 presidential election, and we all wanted it to be over.

As usual, I was with POTUS. He was visiting a DC-area elementary school.
As we entered the school, POTUS was greeted by admiring teachers and students. He shook their hands and talked about the baseball playoffs.

At that very same moment, unbeknownst to us, David Fahrenthold entered the Washington Post building a few miles away and opened his email.
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