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Do you remember when mainstream media outlets like WaPo and The Guardian went out of their way to refuse to publish any details about the Trump resistance leake
by ursuscamp 3y ago
Do you remember when mainstream media outlets like WaPo and The Guardian went out of their way to refuse to publish any details about the Trump resistance leaker, even after his identity became publicly known?
Now they go out of their way to expose this one. Mainstream media outlets are really arms of the Western security state. I should hope this is absolutely clear to everyone at this point.
- localplume 3y ago[dead]
- frogblast 3y agoAlternatively, maybe it is clear to responsible media organizations that some leaks really are in the public interest, and some really are against the public interest. There was nothing scandalous in this leak to be exposed, but it does put the US's sources within Russia at risk.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoYou're suggesting that in all Mainstream media outlets there is someone who's taking their marching (or editorial) orders from someone in the state department. If true now that would be a story that someone would love to break.
- anon291 3y agoI mean, we know that both Twitter and Facebook took marching orders from both the state of California and the Biden administration and no one seemed to care, so whatever.
- mrkeen 3y agoThey lay out some pretty broad marching orders here: https://www.state.gov/information-for-journalists https://www.state.gov/information-for-journalists
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoFor interviewing State Department people, yes. Do they tell journalists how to report on international events? If so, you need a different URL to demonstrate it...
- realreality 3y agoThey don’t have to take orders. They know implicitly what the State wants. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have their jobs. This has been explained repeatedly since “Manufacturing Consent”.
- howlingfantods 3y agoIrrespective of the contents of the leaks, the Trump resistance leaker wrote an Op-Ed for the NYTimes and leaked formally, directly to the media, so of course the media is going to protect its anonymous sources. This leaker was trying to win an internet flame war on a subculture forum.
- ulrashida 3y agoYou're right, sharing anonymous opinions from a government post is on exactly on the same level as disclosing military classified secrets. Give me a break.
- lazyeye 3y agoHave to agree. There are now large sections of the media which are really just a "mouthpiece for the regime".