Thread by @MediaActSquad

1/ All just a game to @jdawsey1. He, @washingtonpost, @RoigFranzia write puff pieces for lying GOP operatives while the Dems are perpetually in disarray. Stop normalizing GOP lies and astroturfs,@SallyBuzbee. CRT = Koch Tea Party Redux! washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/ronn…

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1456271055887032321

2/ Puff piece for Dana Loesch on August 30th.
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…

3/ Puff piece for Dan Bongino from April 20th.
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…

4/ Puff piece for Moms For Liberty on October 15th. MFL is a Koch funded astroturf that has largely created the school board protests along with fellow astroturf Parents Defending Education. Fake outrage led to wider outrage. Legitimized here by WaPo. washingtonpost.com/national/moms-…

5/ Here’s an exhaustive🧵from @jennycohn1 that begins by exposing Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler as a Koch Funded operative. The thread goes much deeper into the swirling nexus of GOP disinformation strategy and connections. threader.app/thread/1432909…

6/ But @timcraigpost didn’t need to do a deep dive on Twitter to provide the essential context missing from his Moms For Liberty piece. As a journalist, he should have found exhaustive resources like this K-12 report from @UnKochCampus and reported truth.

unkochmycampus.org

7/ WaPo reporters and other mainstream journalists could improve at describing reality to all of us by listening to their critics. Here @froomkin provides an exhaustive look at the problems with CRT coverage. presswatchers.org/2021/10/failin…

8/ The laundering of the massive GOP CRT lie into the mainstream is a major factor in swinging the election to Youngkin. Corporate media give readers every reason for Dem failure (disarray!) but for the biggest one - media tilting outcomes towards the GOP by normalizing lies.

https://twitter.com/MediaActSquad/status/1456355507619328009

9/ More from @JuddLegum on how this lie will continue to be pushed all the way through 2022 and beyond if media doesn’t stop doing the GOP bidding. @jayrosen_nyu, how can we get media to stop laundering disinformation to the masses? @VWPickard? @NormOrnstein

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1456000631517417485

10/ Here we made a mistake and repeated the Legum thing from above and can’t figure out how to delete it without deleting this whole thread. Please move on to the next tweet while enjoying this moment of levity. A reminder CRT isn’t taught in any K-12 schools.

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1456000631517417485

11/ We’re in a nightmare scenario where American politics are being radically warped, and elections are being decided, by corporate media’s active participation in GOP disinfo. Reality’s no longer legible in the face of a GOP production fed to us by the press.

12/ @PaulHRosenberg provides this breakdown of how both-sides coverage obscures the truth, forcing unequal things to appear equal, and this becomes de facto GOP propaganda. salon.com/2021/07/31/bot…

13/ More on how the right astroturfs (plants GOP operatives pretending to be organic, grassroots activists) outrage which is then laundered by corporate media. From @SusieMadrak: crooksandliars.com/2021/10/republ…

14/ And still more from @mmfa @MattGertz about how GOP astroturfing works on Fox: mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…

15/ Can’t stop won’t stop. More from @JuddLegum on the right-wing operatives orchestrating the attack on America’s school boards. popular.info/p/the-right-wi…

16/ If we can find information that provides essential context to America’s politics, context necessary for voters to make informed decisions about self-government, we have to wonder why corporate media won’t. We demand truth, context and transparency in every piece of reporting.