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Many serious news outlets are signaling their obediance to Trump and the right. Politico's European publication published, as news, a story that said disinform
by mmooss 2y ago
Many serious news outlets are signaling their obediance to Trump and the right.
Politico's European publication published, as news, a story that said disinformation mostly was a mass panic and didn't amount to much. Again, obviously false and appeasing the right, which also has shut down anyone who researches disinformation, even at institutions like Stanford and Harvard.
The LA Times owner has stopped them from endorsing Harris and from publishing various pieces critical of Trump, and is insisting they publish more that's positive about Trump.
Semafor published an article, by one of its founders, that compared reporting on Trump-Russia collusion with reports of Iranian motherships controlling drones in the Northeast, and a "mass delusion". At least it was an opinion piece, but it's obviously false and dishonest.
MSNBC had some of their leading hosts visit Trump to, per reports, try to appease him. They later published an apology for a guest's mild ridicule of Fox News.
It's been easy Internet points for a long time to disparage the serious news media. If you actually succeed and destroy it, we will be in deep trouble. We are in deep, deep trouble. There could be no source for accurate information. It's time to stop playing Internet games and take your world very seriously - you're not an outside critic; you build the world for yourself, for others around you, and for generations that follow. Generations before us built professional journalism; what will we build? X?