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Lmao even.

Because corporate media is sociopathic. Their sole objective is to look after themselves. They have no higher calling, instead always choosing the line of least resistance.

Distrust of the media is not a big problem. The problem is that people who have a healthy skepticism of the mainstream media throw that skepticism aside to embrace the dumbest, least reputable, most obvious grifters and liars ever to curse this planet with their presence.

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They are not independent reporters. Hi

Not Matt Taibbi among the authors?

#FDT #ReleaseTrumpEpsteinFiles #TheEpsteinBallroom #TrumpsInsane

Because they have revealed the.selves as complicit Nazi's, and we the public believe them.

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One really wonderful and introspective writer here going along with three clowns. Jelani, c'mon my guy.

i need the news to be more like max headroom and i'll trust it again

I agree with Max that my distrust of the media only increases in the absence of regular doses of dumbfuck lab-leak bullshit

I believe the media. I believe they’ll keep holding Trump to a double standard.

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I will read 10,000 words on how these four specific people were chosen for this and the exact details of their collaboration

Because they have been purchased by billionaires? 😆

every time i think of this tonight i will laugh myself into an asthma attack

LOL

They haven’t told the truth about TSF since 2015. They haven’t hounded TSF as hard as they did with President Biden.

Interesting to compare the Hunter stuff with the Don Jr stuff.

Jack Shafer working hard to find out who did this

Let's just start with crucifying Howard Dean for showing genuine enthusiasm with his base! Swiftboating Kerry, and there is not enough space to write about what the fuking media did to HRC! Let's end with WAPO outlining in detail, Bill Clinton's blow job and cigar sex! To undisclosed Epstein Files!

Because they duck!

Lol

because they continue to sane wash the senile mad king destroying our nation. Or in the case of the more powerful right wing propaganda machine, brain washing.

Because the media gave them no choice!

How many hotdogs(uits) come in a pack?

HA! Lamestream media is run by oligarchs and wealthy bastards who are trump minions and don’t understand how important a free press is to democracy. ABC, NBC CBS FUXX News is a Republican propaganda company.

It wasn't us. It was that other media over there.

This is a rhetorical question.

Gee, I wonder why. If it’s not propaganda, it’s the majority of their stories are scare tactics to keep their ratings up.

Because they don’t report the news, their actual job description. They decided to be Trumps propaganda outlet instead.

Because they never tell the truth about Trump. Next question

because it has been consolidated by billionaires into a capitalism propaganda machine

Even CBC is problematic. Their mandate of providing a both sides perspective was fine when we had fiscal Cons, Liberals, and progressives (NDP, Green). All mainstream parties were moderate, none extreme. But now that the Cons have taken up fascism, giving them equal voice is undermining democracy.

🤣🤣 They’re so weak !

I’m still seeing news segments about kids being behind in their grade level due to Covid restrictions. About how they’re still “catching up”.

😂🤣🤪

rhetorical....

oh bless their hearts.

real meeting of the minds there

If only there was a sign, any kind of sign, anything...

To state the obvious about when people died - it seems pretty relevant when comparing cumulative death totals that the pandemic erupted at the tail end of Trump I!

Firstly 4 years is longer than 10 months. Secondly the number of Covid deaths under Biden included a large number of people who refused the vaccine just because it was Biden giving it out. Her logic implies it's the Democrats fault for that. How? Because they won the election instead of Trump?

Was it Biden that "essentially said COVID is over"? August 31, 2020 www.wptv.com/news/state/f...

“Fewer available treatments” is objectively false.

We got to this moment because the media has striven to learn the exact wrong lesson from every single teachable moment since at least 2015, and arguably since the turn of the millennium.

full on case of twitter brain between those ears

Asking Taylor Lorenz to have a COVID take that's within a country mile of reality is like asking me to fly to the moon by flapping my arms.

more of pandemic thing afaict

Like, I don’t remember any of this happening. And it isn’t bc I’m old; it’s bc it didn’t happen.

wow, that is truly delusional. Biden faced up to the pandemic and ended it only after two even more deadly waves. We read the death count every day for the first year and a half of Joe Biden's presidency. Somehow this was memory holed in order to elect Trump. But Covid was covered under Biden.

for fuck's sake

Literally not enough “Eye Roll” emojis…

So Lorenz Taylor is blaming Biden for the Covid deaths? This is some delusional shit. Biden kept on message - masking and social isolation. Biden wasn't in charge of local governments. After the vaccine and deaths went way down for vaccinated folk the CDC changed their guidance.

I increasingly think that most people have either willfully forgotten what happened between 2020 and 2022 or cemented into their memories an almost completely fabricated version of it that validates and valorized their traumatic experiences of those years.

. . . to connect the politicizaxn to the distribuxn of harm revealed by the data. That's bc politicizaxn served as as rationalizaxn to simultaneously elide Trump's lie that COVID wld not spread & in fact wld disappear, & justify unfettered econ & social interacxn, wch served corp/MSM interests.

She's so terrible.

👆This was Biden/Klain. Then we got Biden/Zients. Two completely different administrations in my view and should be judged accordingly.

This is the converse of "Biden did all the lockdowns in 2020" brain worm of the right

Taylor Lorenz got caught being without a mask at her book launch event after scolding everyone for not wearing a mask well past 2020. Her excuse was she paid thousands to have continuous clean air ventilation. Gee, not everyone has that disposable wealth and trusted the efficacy of a free vaccine.

The "let the poor die, just get these horrible children out of my house and let me get back to lunching" campaign began pretty much immediately. It only let up for awhile because that set got extremely anxious about youngs and blacks in the streets and then MAGA insurrectionists for about 10 months

Republicans ran in the 2022 midterms against the "Fauci-ouchie" and masking.

Mounk’s “take off that mask” article was May of 2021, and Nate Silver’s “school closures were worse than Iraq” tweet was like January of 2022 so my question I guess is why am I getting lectured here

Was there an expansion in UI eligibility and benefits? Perhaps a social safety net that did not include work requirements?

“We would have kept Trump out of office had Biden simply continued the COVID emergency.” The mind reels.

The degree to which SCOTUS is responsible for obstructing any health policy that is an inch to the left of center really needs to be reckoned with. Medicare-for-all would not survive a constitutional lawsuit under the current iteration of SCOTUS. The ACA Medicaid expansion barely survived it in 2012

no they didn't. Biden was not president in 2020

Why lie about someone being an anti-vaxxer?

Did red states start opening up and ending covid restrictions? Did half the GOP refuse to get the shot, thus prolonging the pandemic? Did the right spread non-stop misinformation about covid? Did two variants hit while half the country was insisting it was no different than the flu?

Lorenz is a disingenuous idiot.

I had a vague idea that Lorenz was best ignored but couldn’t really remember why I had that impression. After reading this quotation, I’m glad to know that impression was very much correct!

2) a substantial fraction, perhaps almost half, of the remaining deaths were due to vaccine refusal 3) COVID lasted 10 months under Trump and, well, 4 years under Biden (including two major mutations that both caused large surges)

The media is too soft on Dems... lol, lmao

Hey what event coincided pretty closely with Biden becoming president, see if you can remember

Asking ChatGPT whether 4 years is longer than 10 months.

I think that's charitable given that the framing of Biden being president is the one she explicitly chose (“Biden essentially came in and said, ‘COVID’s over. Everybody get back to work.”) she could have said Biden was acceding to media pressure if that's what she meant here.

In the lead up to the midterm elections Democrats were facing a huge amount of pressure to ease off of COVID restrictions and "return to normal". Republicans were running directly against what they cast as "Biden's lockdowns" (even though there were no lockdowns).

I think that the year of isolation fearing that every cough was the black death while the President recommended injecting bleach probably broke a bunch of people.

Did everyone memory-hole the vaccine and mitigation resistance by Republicans in 2021? FFS

Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington. Harry Whittington is dead. (No point in mentioning those two facts occurred 7 years apart and were unconnected.)

Let's see Trump was president for less than one year when covid existed, Biden was president for four years.... lemme see here....

And it is an utterly false assertion. The vaccine wasn't even released until after Biden took office. So every single bit of vaccine-related policy and promotion happened during the Biden Administration. Red states started abandoning measures in the summer of 2021. Not the Federal Government.

a lot of media people think that them being the media and them having the first amendment means you can't complain about them because that is telling them what to do and censorship

Anyone taking Lorenz seriously on COVID has no idea of how much unwarranted confidence she has in her own "work" on this score.

When he said it that was extremely true though, in summer 2021 99% of deaths were of the unvaccinated. apnews.com/article/joe-...

1) Available ≠ used. 2) Herd immunity is a thing 3) who do you think continued to spread it so it could mutate?

higher rates of covid deaths in red counties because those people were still believing all of the felon's lies about a deadly virus - even AFTER the vaccines were available. Because there is no vaccine for ignorance www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1...

Fewer treatments? Because the president wasn't pushing Ivermectin and Lysol?

And then when the next wave hit, I saw the infections skyrocket but the deaths didn't follow like the previous waves. It was clear the vax did its job but for some reason people like Taylor refused to accept that.

Were they all wearing their hot dog suits writing this?

Did she put a mask on this article? Because I'm catching long covid just from reading it, and vaccines don't help.

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Why don't people set their hair on fire and smear feces on their bodies? Because no rational person does that. Same principal...

Because they're shite! They carry water for Trump and yet it's not enough for them - it's still the left-wing media because they sometimes criticize Trump. Heaven forbid!

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Man oh man does Taylor suck exponentially worse every time I am reminded of her dumb ass

Always love a tedious article that took multiple authors

I have some ideas on this 'anatomy of a credibility crisis'

we're gonna need more hotdog costumes

🤣 Gee, I wonder why?

Well in my formative years the media went along with lies about Iraq having WMD's. I imagine it all started there.

The US media formally known as “the press“ hasn’t been doing their job for over a decade. Independent media is who we owe our support to! The four major networks can fuck right off 🖕 He’s already done this to the media, how far down the list do you think YOU are?

seeing Taylor Lorenz, i thought sure this was satire. *sigh* #ComplicitMedia can't understand how they got here? #FOH

Because the media’s been so cowed by Trump that it fears the truth. And once truth is no longer paramount, relevance is lost.