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Originally Posted by spleen1015
USA Today interfering with democracy!
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Only 4 years too late.
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The problem with daily news is that it obsesses over what’s happening, making it harder to grasp what unfolds. Breaking news, by its nature, is ill-equipped to cover the demise of democracy – just as the weather report never really shows us the climate is changing.
Breaking news shows the world as a place of sheer madness without rhyme or reason – a non-stop series of unrelated events. It’s like a diary without a memory or a notion of the future: it tells us of today, while it has forgotten all about yesterday, and pretending there’s no tomorrow. It warns and warns and warns, but immediately forgets what it’s warning against – thus never learning from its own wailing sirens.
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Even now, they’re still attending the daily White House press briefings as if they were normal press conferences rather than a vehicle for systematically disseminating lies and misinformation. Even now, they’re still quoting patent falsehoods in headlines and articles as if they were solid statements by legitimate government sources rather than deliberately misleading propaganda from the mouths of so-called spokespersons. Even now, they conflate impartiality and “false balance”, as if every truth lies somewhere in the middle
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Even now, they still talk about “the White House” as if it has the same meaning it once had.
But as journalism professor Jay Rosen puts it, “There is no White House. Not in the way journalists came to use that term. [...] Those words, ‘the White House’ are still used, but there is no clear referent. The metonymy broke.”
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The full article propably not conducive to a discussion, but theese parts dealing with the media side of things seem pretty well put ...
I think the first part is crucial as well. For example how many outlets still feigned surprise about things that were clear and called beforehand (blue shift late in counting, Trumps strategy, problems re: counting that were predetermined by prior rulings etc etc).
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Last edited by whomario : 11-06-2020 at 02:09 AM.
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