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I am still baffled by the radio silence about any of that in the mainstream media. My prediction is that this, the Rittenhouse trial coverage, and the attempts
by poszlem 4y ago
I am still baffled by the radio silence about any of that in the mainstream media. My prediction is that this, the Rittenhouse trial coverage, and the attempts to shut down the discussion about the lab Leak theory are going to be viewed in a few years the same way as the mainstream media's complicity and collusion with the government before the Iraq war.
- petesergeant 4y ago> radio silence about and of that in the mainstream media Do any of these help? site:washingtonpost.com "twitter files" site:cnn.com "twitter files" site:foxnews.com "twitter files"
- poszlem 4y agoNo, they don't. https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1605128180750319619 https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/16051281807503196...
- petesergeant 4y agoAh, so the "mainstream media" "radio silence" here for an American politics story is in-fact complaining that on a specific date, it wasn't front-page news in ... the UK?
- poszlem 4y agoCan you show me when it made front page in the US media?
- joshuamorton 4y agoI mean it helps that it isn't front page news. It's completely reasonable to disagree about the scale of a story. Most people disagree with you and shellenberger that this is important. What place do you have to demand that we interpret things the same way you do?
- oprah 4y ago"most people" cannot disagree with them about the story's importance, because "most people" haven't heard about the it thanks to the suppression campaign. That's the whole issue you are trying to downplay.
- joshuamorton 4y agoSo I'm confused, is any tweet that isn't reposted on the front page of the nyt "suppressed" now? Those who have seen the story think it's not worth publishing. One of the points of news/media is to vet stories and exercise good judgement and editorial choice about what is worth publishing and what isn't.
- belltaco 4y agoThere are no big revelations in the twitter files. It's mundane things like FBI employees asking Twitter to look at tweets telling Republicans to vote on the Wednesday after election day, when you can no longer vote. And Biden campaign(which was not in power, Trump admin was) sending Twitter links to a few tweets that have Hunter's leaked dick pics that were being spread without his permission(definition of revenge porn), to check if they violated Twitter's rules on revenge porn. It's a big yawn except for all the lies by the right wing causing outrage.
- wl 4y agoSure, the Rittenhouse coverage and how people responded to it was terrible. People saw what they wanted to see, regardless of the facts. But the whole situation was ammunition for the culture war and not really a matter of public concern more generally, unlike the Iraq war.
- LarryMullins 4y agoA few weeks ago over Thanksgiving, I found out that my aunt believes Rittenhouse killed "several black people". She doesn't live under a rock per-se, she keeps herself steeped in TV news (so she may as well be under a rock.)
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoThis is a common post on Reddit along with them still falsely claiming he “went across state lines with a gun”. These people did not watch the trial, and have no idea what they are talking about. But are certain that they do… ChatGPT levels of certainty… hmm, might be on to something there.