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@FixMediaNow
Jun 14, 2023 • 17 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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Corporate media is failing to inform Americans of the criminality, harms & danger of Trump. Publishers & Editors expose their biases by what they prioritize, exclude and frame on their #FrontPage

#TrumpArraignmentDay Edition

What do you think of A1 @nytimes ?
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.@nycscribe and NYT Editors chose this photo. Stoic Trump, Flag

“Momentous” is that good or bad?

@MarkJacob16 @JeffSharlet
I guess Fred Ryan & WaPo think a photo of Trump and a plane are informative? Note the “Not Guilty” equals “Trump says” framing.
Did @SallyBuzbee see the goddamn photos we saw of our National Security documents in a bathroom shower?
Why this frame WaPo?
@tomwatson @AndreaChalupa Image
Look here at @NYDailyNews

This has more context than WaPo and NYT! Image
Even Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda rag @nypost included useful context and info! Did you know yesterday was also Trump’s 77 birthday?!

(Thank you Rupert).

@onthemedia @BLStrangfeld @Will_Bunch @nhannahjones Image
“Uncharted Territory”

(Uncharted criminality). Image
Note how @pharostribune used the artists sketch of the event and not a plane. Nice work!

@thehill with requisite Trump favorable pic and frame Image
“Historic arraignment” or “historic criminality”?

Nice to show folks besides pro-Trump demonstrators. Image
Kudos to @USATODAY for the frame of “historic charges” not framing the day as being “historic”

@jayrosen_nyu @Heidi_Cuda @protecttruth_ @EricHoppe4 Image
Wow here’s A1 ‘Trump says’ “Not Guilty” but at least did not use random plane photo (note campaign banner in photo below to text his grift!) Image
.@nytimes A1 looked “like” a campaign ad here’s the @jerseyjournal doing one better.

Is this an “in kind” donation to the Trump campaign?

@chaunceydevega @brianstelter Image
This is an earth-shattering frame. “Former President” Image
Value by @HoustonChron to center “37 counts”. Image
Remember how “lock her up”imagery was amplified by corporate media in 2016?

Here’s a sign reminding he pleaded not guilty to Espionage Act violations and “lock him up” Image
Front pages are central to how news orgs frame and influence. WaPo and NYT continue to make egregious editorial decisions.

Here’s @SallyBuzbee

@jdawsey1 @AshleyRParker recent travesty A1 WaPo on other Trump criminality and charges.

@KarlBode
Do you remember when Republicans hijacked the debt limit to extort America?

That was “drifting” in case you forgot.
Bottom line. We need you to help support more-informative and pro-democracy media and journalists.

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Sep 6
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Leading news orgs deceive the American people about the profound unfitness of Trump.
One way they do this is “sane-washing” the abnormal & his incoherency.

This is not journalism-it’s journalistic fraud & propaganda.

Let’s unpack.
#FrontPage
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@ParkerMolloy @froomkin

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Editors of all 3 leading news orgs ran A1 stories. Giving prime real visibility. Instead of objectively reporting his pathologic incoherence. They cherry picked nuggets to report. “Musk” “efficacy commission”.

This a form of deception.

H/t to @Acyn
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@Acyn Opening subhead and grafs are failures by omission.

Let’s grade them on accuracy and errors of commission and omission:

NYT. F
WaPo. F+
WSJ F

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 @sullivan @jeffjarvis @mtomasky

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Aug 28
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The @nytimes is failing democracy & being run by @agsnyt and @nycscribe as a Trump/GOP protection racket.

8/27 updated indictment by Special Counsel of Presidential candidate Trump

Shockingly, NYT editors do not consider this #FrontPage worthy

@jeffjarvis @NewsJennifer

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WaPo and WSJ see this significant and historic development as above-the-fold #FrontPage worthy.

Why doesn’t @nytimes ?

@NYTimesGuild any ideas ?

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@nytimes @NYTimesGuild Editorial #FrontPage CURATION shapes narrative. What is - and isn’t prioritized - reflects opinion & bias.

Choosing to deprioritize the indictment of a candidate for President to Page A11 is an indictment of the leadership of NYT.

@HillaryClinton @Will_Bunch
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Jul 11
A 🧵The @nytimes is failing democracy & being run as a Trump/GOP protection racket. Editorial #FrontPage CURATION shapes narrative. What is - and isn’t prioritized - reflects opinion & bias.
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 cc: @MarkJacob16 @ruthbenghiat @mtomasky @anatosaurus @AnandWrites @NewsJennifer Image
Given the breadth of PUBLIC information about corruption and impropriety this is long overdue.

Thank you @propublica for doing journalism. NYT is bitter and jealous about you receiving the Pulitzer for your heroic work.

NYT is vanishing SCOTUS corruption.

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@propublica .@AOC introduces substantial articles of impeachment.
NYT does not deem a New York Congressperson taking such a drastic measure #FrontPage worthy.
Is @nycscribe deciding whether such articles receiving a vote in a GOP-led House make it newsworthy?
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Jun 16
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Epic media failures of omission: not showing Americans clips of Trump’s demented speeches.

#TrumpIsUnfit to be POTUS but instead of *showing* this reality, newsroom leaders deceive Americans by CHOOSING not to.

h/t to @Acyn

Ronny “Johnson”

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Trump “Battery / Shark” insane ramblings “normalized by omission” by @jonathanvswan @maggieNYT @jdawsey1 @peterbakernyt @danbalz @semaforben @AsteadWH

@nytimes @washingtonpost @wsj @NBCNews @ap @cnn @CBSNews @ABC

cc: @MarkJacob16 @NewsJennifer
@ElieNYC @NoLieWithBTC
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@jonathanvswan @maggieNYT @jdawsey1 @peterbakernyt @danbalz @semaforben @AsteadWH @nytimes @washingtonpost @WSJ @NBCNews @AP @CNN @CBSNews @ABC @MarkJacob16 @NewsJennifer @ElieNYC @NoLieWithBTC Trumps plan will kill and maim children AND defund public schools. There is no doubt of this.

#TrumpIsUnfit but corporate media refuses to say so. This enables and licenses Trump.

@PostGuild @NYTimesGuild have you any say in the newsroom? Is this the Fourth Estate?

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Jun 9
ALERT: #FraudulentEuphemism
Editors’ language choices have tremendous impact on Americans understanding of our world.

Today WaPo normalizes dictatorship & makes destruction of American democracy sound sexy with: “muscular Oval Office”

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This piece provides important context and “stakes” of the 2024 election. Thank you @bethreinhard

It’s unfortunate WaPo editors have softened the edges of the facts presented by their choice of euphemisms.

FYI “Post-constitutional” = dictatorship

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@bethreinhard @TimothyDSnyder We need regular Project 2025 coverage and discussion of dictatorship and fascist movements, not soft-pedaling “violating norms of exec overreach”.

IDEA: How about a weekly Sunday deep dive A1 on Project 2025?

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May 31
🧵BREAKING: Newsrooms Rush to Communicate That Trump's Felony Conviction Doesn't Matter

While many front pages prominently carried news of Trump’s guilt, our most influential newsrooms are already communicating to the public that they should not consider this a very big deal. 1/ Image
Newsrooms can make a big deal out of, and paint as a beyond the pale scandal, anything they want. That they haven't made those choices for Trump suggests a willful desire not to. News execs are choosing to normalize Trump and downplay his disqualifying behavior. Terrifying. 2/ Image
Would any other politician receive such framing? Consider, none of the articles had to be written at all. Each of those outlets could have chosen to use the occasion of Trump’s historic conviction to instead call for him to drop out of the race. Alas, a bizarre whitewash. 3/ Image
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