my latest—picking sides;

pressrun.media/p/why-is-the-p…
“What’s happening in Virginia is the press is taking its beloved Dems in Disarray storyline out for a spin and ceaselessly stressing what a political disaster it would be if McAuliffe lost.”
“Do you remember this kind of breathless coverage in advance of the Georgia run-off elections in January, when GOP faced the prospect of losing two U.S. Senate seats in a red state? I don’t. In fact, much of the Beltway media assumed Republicans would prevail.”
"There’s a governor’s race in New Jersey this year as well, and a Democrat is expected to win with ease. For some reason, that’s not a “barometer” of anything. It's only a barometer if a Democrat might lose."
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28 Oct
meh. they all cash Murdoch checks. they all know the game being played at WSJ, both on the editorial page and in the newsroom
Ie WSJ’s Trump news coverage has been an absolute joke for years
it’s another pointless “shocked, shocked…!” episode when everyone at the WSJ DC bureau knows the paper is in the tank for the GOP
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25 Oct
my latest—end this media obsession; pressrun.media/p/who-cares-if…
“The continued, hand-holding coverage — “brainwashing” is virtually never used — represents the latest example of the press helping to normalize irrational, nihilistic behavior by Trump followers.”
“This imprudent fixation represents Both Sides journalism taken to an absurd extreme where the radical, barely-there minority is held up as being equally important and newsworthy as the vast majority.”
Read 5 tweets
22 Oct
“Every indicator confirms that the “lazy worker” claim was nonsense. In fact, today there are more job openings even as the extended benefits have expired.”
“Because conservatives were braying loudly and making the absurd anti-Biden claims, the press automatically treated the allegations as news, and seemed uninterested if the shaming charges were accurate or not. “
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19 Oct
anti-vaxxers helping to create full employment economy!
my hunch is police officers who refuse to get vaxxed do not represent the best and the brightest of the workforce, so kind of a win/win
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19 Oct
Dems won WH by 7M votes, flipped two red states that hadn’t gone blue in 40-50 yrs and all we ever see is this drumbeat of coverage re: Dems looming political apocalypse; vox.com/2021/10/18/227…
press still basically views 2020 as a Dem loss. it’s unprecedented
Dems in Disarray is a powerful drug
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19 Oct
this was the editorial the war-hungry WashPost ran after Colin Powell lied to the UN for an hour straight in March, 2003; washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
"After Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's presentation to the United Nations Security Council yesterday, it is hard to imagine how anyone could doubt that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. "

read that three times.
this was the absolute dominant mainstream media, Establishment voice at the time: blood lust demand for war, and open contempt for anyone who doubted Bush lies
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