"People sometimes ask what I mean when I criticize the New York Times and other major news organizations for sanitizing and normalizing the profoundly sick, hateful rot at the heart of the modern Republican Party.

Well here’s a great example: An article today by Michael C. Bender headlined 'How JD Vance’s Combative Conservatism Is Shaping Trumpism 2.0.'"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #NewYorkTimes
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criticalread.substack.com/p/va…

Vance’s racist attacks are just 'rabble-rousing' to the New York Times

The Times normalizes hurling invective at a vulnerable community to fire up a hateful and bigoted base as just 'combative conservatism'

^{Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)}

"Bender’s byline includes the fact that he 'traveled on Senator JD Vance’s campaign plane this week for events in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.'

And that explains a lot."

#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #NewYorkTimes
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"Tagging posts that made false claims about election fraud as 'disputed' could make Trump voters more likely to believe the lies, a study has found, appearing to throw cold water over the platform’s previous intervention on misinformation."

~ Clea Skopeliti

#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #Twitter #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
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theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

First Thing: Israel bombards Lebanon as Hezbollah vows ‘punishment’

Hassan Nasrallah condemns pager and walkie-talkie explosions that killed 37. Plus, how genetics explains picky eating

^{Clea Skopeliti (The Guardian)}

Skopeliti adds that Twitter (excuse me: X) no longer tags posts as "disputed" but uses “community notes.”

She also notes that the study she's citing was conducted during the 2020 election. But as she maintains, its findings have pertinence for the contemporary US election cycle, since they show something about how Trump voters characteristically process news reports that call his claims into question.

#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #Twitter #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
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"For a decade before Trump took over the GOP, I watched national political reporters bobble their heads in unison when Republican leaders insisted 'deficits don’t matter' (because the president was a Republican) then bobble their heads some more when Republicans decried deficits as a threat to American security (because the president was a Democrat), never once catching on that their sources were just lying."

~ Brian Beutler

#media #Republicans #Democrats
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offmessage.net/p/the-trump-lie…

The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken

Trump's signature methods of smearing, exploiting, and pandering are suddenly getting him nowhere.

^{Brian Beutler (Off Message)}

"The phrase 'antisemitism event' usually refers to an event designed to draw attention to and denounce antisemitism. But in Donald Trump’s hands, it morphed into an event that featured antisemitism, in the form of the mind-blowing comments by the principal."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #antisemitism #media #sanewashing
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newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?a…

Donald “Blame the Jews” Trump is truly losing his sh*t now

Fighting Words. What got me...

^{newsletter.tnr.com}

"This sanewashing must stop. Voters need to be informed when Trump makes statements with a tenuous connection to reality at best. He’s disqualifying himself from the presidency every day that he opens his mouth, but much of the mainstream media is ignoring the words coming out."

#Trump #antisemitism #media #sanewashing
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