This is a GOP-manufactured reckless, damaging crisis. It is not a @JoeBiden crisis. By centering Biden and omitting details about how the debt ceiling functions - and context the NYT protects the GOP.
“Barrels” because the @GOP is willing to destroy the American economy.
“Both sides-ism” hides and protects EXTREMIST GOP positions, harms and inability to govern.
These are institutional decisions to favor Republicans (at the expense of truth) by Editors esp @nycscribe
Legacy media has a pro-Republican bias.
NYT Covering vital news as sports…
Please read this great piece by @froomkin on how legacy media is dangerously failing to inform America Re: #DebtCeiling
Here’s a truth bomb several paragraphs in. The appropriate word “hostage” IS used.
This GOP-manufactured crisis is about #DebtCeiling and hostage-taking. Why not make that the headline? thereby normalizing it with its influential voice. Instead #Bothsides
This is the opening graph. Minimizing Republican irresponsibility +culpability.
GOP is not “allowing” they are FORCING a default.
WaPo says it’s “theatre”.It’s worse, it’s propaganda. legacy media swallow, then REGURGITATE and disseminate it with an aura of legitimacy.
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Hey @froomkin help us make sense why in a 217-215 vote to push America towards a catastrophe @Santos4Congress casting what could be considered a deciding vote” to pass the legislation is not a part of the conversation? He +the GOP cheated to win. @marceelias@ElieNYC@espiers
The front page of @nytimes is a window into its priorities. Today an affront against democracy by
-minimizing GOP war on women and democracy
-fascism 2024
@AGSNYT runs the NYT as a Republican-protection racket.
This “news analysis” fails to center the GOP war on the rights of Americans and how there is a massive difference be D/R. But @reidepstein is now “analyzing” for NYT readers as if shilling for @DraftKings Reid: abortion rights are not a Democratic “strategy” -they are values!
The headers above the sections, about NAZIS (!), read:
-Finding people with like minds
-A nice way to go about it
-Projecting power
-“It’s a good way to relate to normal people”
-The face of hate
Barring one, these might as well have been written by a PR firm. 2/
According to Fascist Quarterl— er, we mean @NPR, the Nazis are a scrappy, admirable bunch of go-getters with the gumption to “punch above their weight and get noticed.”
The @nytimes is a “Republican protection racket”. Its editors use linguistic tricks + word choices TO whitewash Republicans:
Instead of “extremists” “neofascists” “radicals” they’re “hard right” “right”
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.