This is a huge development. Credit to the @washingtonpost who see that the agenda-setting hate-for-profit network #fox lies at a massive scale is an important story.
Why @SallyBuzbee won’t say lies is an indictment of institutional weakness.
But +1 for putting this story A1
But what do @nycscribe & @AGSNYT do as Rupert Murdoch IN HIS OWN WORDS says that Fox is a political arm that will do all it can to help GOP?
Not front page.
Fox is building and buttressing a whole ecosystem to embed its pro-Republican and anti-democracy propaganda. Rupert Murdoch is not only about profit he is about POWER. He has all the money he could ever spend.
The Fox Right Wing propaganda is building a huge multi platform ecosystem / empire so big that it will soon be nearly impossible to escape.
First understand that Fox is a radicalizing force. It is not purely providing information to an audience. It is using basic propaganda techniques to create community in its audience and having them reject other sources of information. Watch @BrainwashingDad by @Jen_Senko
Media oligarch Rupert controls attention and narrative with his properties. He has turned the WSJ past legitimacy into a Trojan horse of an OpEd megaphone for Right Wing propagandists.
Note @rupertmurdoch is at war with democracy as a regulatory state capable of enforcing policies that would benefit the “common good” are a threat. As such he vehemently opposes @gigibsohn for @fcc !
ACT against Rupert. Call your Senators and ask them to advance and come out in support of @gigibsohn for FCC
Rupert employs homophobes to spread his disinfo. Watch Fox. Learn.
Also his homophobic WSJ Editorial “strange bedfellows” is an attack on the eminent @gigibsohn who would be the first openly LGBTQ+ on the FCC
@VictoryFund has stridently called out hateful attacks on Sohn.
If you watch sports you see Rupert uses Fox as a Trojan horse for promoting and normalizing his true core power -Fox News. During #SuperBowl he plugged his other platforms and personalities.
We wish more folks listened to experts on the Fox ecosystem @GoAngelo@mmfa that by appearing on Fox you LEGITIMIZE Fox to advertisers. Advertising $ anywhere in the Fox network supports racist @TuckerCarlson
Sports equals eyeballs.
Sports = normalization of Fox’s hate for core mission.
Super Bowl, World Cup etc.
People have to wake up fast there is an information war and oligarchs are using media to fight against the common good. It’s not only $ - it’s narrative. @MMBrussell
Tell us what you are doing. We all need to activate.
The media oligarchs are activated and consolidating power, control of information and narrative.
They are rendering our government inoperative to regulate their power.
This alliance 👇 should scare the f*ck out of you.
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The @nytimes has a proven track record of enabling corporate interests and whitewashing Republican incompetence in governing. #EastPalestine
A1 today criticism of EPA (Biden Admin) from a local “diner equivalent” = misinformation.
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It’s as if NYT has an ax to grind with the EPA/Biden admin that it suppresses how the Republican Governor has handled the situation.
Did these journalists know the Gov refused Biden’s offer immediately after the accident?
Those of us NOT depending on the NYT do.
Context. Context. Context. Did the NYT reporters of which 5 contributed to this piece ASK what the central pizza owner thinks of Republican deregulation policies that LED to this type of accident?
Stenography that fits a narrative that NYT Editors want.
Fred Ryan (Republican) publisher of the @washingtonpost pays editors who reinforce Republican-friendly narratives. Let’s walk through todays A1 piece abt the impending preventable catastrophe of #DebtCeiling
☝️ @TonyRomm +editor construct a frame that the Republican hostage-taking of the US economy is a responsible and legitimate strategy.
“Urgency for a deal” when Republicans are not acting in good faith or consistency.
Next Tony emphasizes the frame that the deficit is “bothsides”
Tony parrots GOP disinformation “two years of Dem control”. Is this true @TonyRomm ? If yes let us know you think so. If not why be a stenographer?
Oh and it’s most legitimate economists warning - not only the Biden administration.
And read the following 🧵 to understand how important local journalism is to democracy. 1/
Local journalists are democracy's frontline workers. They strengthen communities, save taxpayers money, and promote civic engagement. Where local journalism is strong, more people vote & elected officials pay more attention to constituents. But only 1 in 6 of us pays for news! 2/
Less than 20% of us pay for news, but investing in local journalism literally pays us back. 'Each dollar spent by a newspaper on investigative reporting can save taxpayers hundreds of dollars by changing public policy and rooting out waste and corruption.' Other benefits are.. 3/
Daily reminder: Corporate media has as its prime directive distribution of a maximally palatable “news product” to expand/maintain its financial/influence value.
Gov #DeSantis is a neofascist. He has weaponized his powers to attack education, public health voting rights etc..
His assaults on public education, book banning are racist & transphobic.
Journalistic failure by fraudulent euphemisms:
“Cultural issues”
“Pushes to right”
A healthy Fourth Estate would speak out against fascism and not leave it to “Democratic govs SEE a need” @danbalz (author) fills his piece with “view from nowhere” musings.
Question: Are the dangerous anti-American policies of DeSantis a bad thing Dan?
Cc: @jayrosen_nyu