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"Donald recently called America 'the garbage can of the world,' and this is what he had to say about actual human beings back in September:
'The people that surround [Kamala Harris]—they’re Scum. They’re scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.'
Good to know.
We’re five days out. The media keeps getting it wrong."
~ Mary Trump
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/15
Lincoln Project helpfully provides us with a beaucoup of times when the Garbage Can Man Trump has called Kamala Harris' supporters — and America itself — garbage.
I'm continuing to hashtag New York Times and Washington Post as I post this item because both media outlets should be royally shamed, though they're evidently well beyond shame.
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/14
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The Garbage Can Can
Take a shot every time Trump calls Americans who don't support him “garbage."YouTube
"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'
That really did happen.
And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?
If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/13
"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/12
"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."
~ Seth Abramson
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/11
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FACT CHECK: No, President Biden Didn’t Call Donald Trump Supporters “Garbage”
The viral lie—spread to hundreds of millions by Trump and Elon Musk and the subject of a bizarre publicity stunt by Trump aimed at making voters forget what happened at Madison Square Garden—is silly.Seth Abramson (Proof)
"As the election approaches, the reporting gets worse — policy issues are pushed aside, the most ludicrous micro-controversies are given front-page treatment, more and more attention is paid to increasingly useless polls and pointless speculation, and they ride into election day on a wave of triviality. ...
The most disheartening thing about all this is how it shows our elite media have learned nothing."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/10
"Nobody tells the elite reporters that they’re terrible at their job, and they think their job is to report the same thing all the other news outlets are reporting."
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/9
~ Paul Waldman
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The News Media Have Learned Nothing
The election is just days away, and reporters are making the worst possible choices.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
Kurtz quotes New York Times Pitchbot, which writes,
"Biden calling Trump supporters 'garbage' in a webcam interview is a moral outrage. Here’s why Trump calling Harris supporters 'garbage' at a rally is not."
"In the final week of the presidential campaign, the country’s two most prominent newspapers extended into a second day their credulous coverage of Republicans’ fake outrage over President Biden’s 'garbage' comment.
The NYT and WaPo each made it a front-page story in Thursday’s editions, with above-the-fold, prime-real-estate treatment."
~ David Kurtz
#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/7
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Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again
INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... John RobertsDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Readers do not distrust opinion journalists for forming opinions and sharing them with the public. They distrust condescending, ham-fisted plutocrats who have no blessed idea what they’re talking about, moving fast and breaking stuff."
"Bezos is right to worry about waning trust in the media. But he does not understand that people like him are in large part responsible for this distrust, and that cosplaying as a pundit while pandering to the worst-faith actors in American politics is not a plan for restoring it."
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #media
/5
~ Jay Willis
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Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem
Brace yourself, but The Washington Post’s owner’s decision to destroy his paper’s credibility in order to restore trust in journalism may have a few flaws in its logic.The New Republic
"I’d hoped (forlornly) that all major outlets would see the rush for the exits at the Post and start asking themselves whether they’re taking their own subscribers for granted. Seems they did not."
~ Brian Beutler
"Independent analysts such as Edison Research said in March that X’s usage in the United States dropped 30 percent since last year. Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover."
~ Robert Reich
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #Twitter #EconomicElites #Trump
/3
"The Guardian U.S. might be one of the biggest winners. …
U.S. readers pledged $2.16 million [to The Guardian's fundraising campaign]. (That’s an additional $1.5 million since Saturday night.) The campaign broke the Guardian U.S. record for fundraising twice; first setting a one-day record on Friday with $485,000 raised and then topping that on Saturday with an additional $619,000 raised."
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #PhiladelphiaInquirer #Guardian
/2
Sarah Scire reports that publications endorsing Harris, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Guardian, are capitalizing on the controversy Jeff Bezos has caused by yanking a Washington Post endorsement of Harris. Other publications endorsing Harris are now racking up new subscribers.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #PhiladelphiaInquirer #Guardian
/1
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The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs
The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.Nieman Lab
Boycott Amazon. Cancel Prime. Save your money and skip Whole Foods.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Las Vegas Sphere: not a Bezos coward.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Inside The #WashingtonPost’s Decision to Stop Presidential Endorsements
Post owner Jeff #Bezos ended the decades-long practice, weeks after a discussion at a meeting in Miami. The move has drawn criticism in and outside the newsroom.
Reading the comments on Jeff Bezos' piss poor attempt at an explanation for not endorsing Harris and losing 200K subscribers, some of them are brilliant:
My favourites are: "Democracy died in broad daylight" and "That's a lot of extra words where "my moral cowardice knows no bounds and anyway I do what I want" would work just as well."
#WashingtonPost #Bezos
In a #WashingtonPost OpEd, Jeff #Bezos spins some #bullshit in an attempt to excuse his #acquiescence to #Trump’s threats to perceived enemies & a #FreePress.
#billionaire #SelfInterest #WaPo #FourthEstate #democracy #fascism #tyranny
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LA Times owner Soon-Shiong WANTED A JOB under Trump running American healthcare. Washington Post owner Bezos wants to keep his $3.4 billion contract with NASA. Billionaires want Trump’s multitrillion dollar tax cuts. Planet-destroying oil execs want deregulation.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
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#latimes #patricksoonshiong #LosAngelesTime #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Patrick Soon-Shiong: the billionaire LA Times owner who blocked Harris endorsement
Biotech tycoon’s decision to refuse to allow presidential endorsement led to resignations and subscribers’ revoltDan Milmo (The Guardian)
"So, why did I cancel my subscriptions?
Because this wasn’t about an endorsement. It was about what it says of these papers’ owners—and a troubling trend among oligarchs more generally. From silent acquiescence to, in the case of Elon Musk, unhinged cheerleading, some of the most powerful people in the world are conspiring in complicity to undermine our country and our democracy."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #EconomicElites
/7
"Of all the expectations I had for these final weeks of the election, canceling two of my newspaper subscriptions wasn’t one of them.
I’ve always believed newspapers are essential to our democracy."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #EconomicElites
/6
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Canceled Subscriptions
In service of democracyElliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)
"But here we see billionaires, who own press operations as side businesses, out of their back pocket, as it were, seeming to decide that it’s easier to pull up stakes in advance, get out of the way of the freight train, lay down before Trump has even won the election."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/5
"A lot of the country is convinced that a second Trump presidency will push America into the kind of elective autocracy we see in degraded democracies like Russia, Turkey and India. That brings with it the standard package of curtailments of press and other civic freedoms."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/4
"It’s been suggested to me that Jeff Bezos’ decision here may be based on more than just fear. Perhaps carrots are operating in the background as well as sticks. I don’t know if that’s true. But I mention the possibility because I think it’s a critical driver of what I’ve called that climate of bewilderment. The choice has the whiff of decisions or deals made off stage, out of public view."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/3
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Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
It's part of the stock in trade of liberal American discourse: threatening or claiming to cancel a subscription to this or that once-revered journalistic institution in response to bad behavior…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
“'Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,' he said on Saturday. 'Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.'”
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
/2
It's important to stop thinking of major newspapers as "News Organizations"
They aren't.
They're Oligarch Marketing Departments.
They're funded the same way billionaires maintain Politician Bribery slushfunds.
"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."
~ Lily Mae Lazarus
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
/1
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Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’
Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump’s meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper’s Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.Lily Mae Lazarus (The Daily Beast)
Readers who’ve written to cancel their #WashingtonPost subscriptions have cited its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate, but they have also cited what they see as the paper’s general decline.
"The best thing those readers can do is cancel their $139 annual #AmazonPrime subscriptions, if they have them, and invest that money in the #journalism they say they want and need."
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Cancel Amazon Prime, Not ‘The Washington Post’
The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.Ellen Cushing (The Atlantic)
Someone should send #Bezos this 2022 story from the #washingtonpost about All the President's Men... Redford said papers were "chicken---" for not covering Watergate because Nixon was "vindictive and mean."
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![“I said, ‘Wait a minute, hold on,” Redford recalled. “You guys are here watching me make a fool out of myself [over] something trivial, [but] is there more to this?” And they really let me have it. They said, ‘There are three things you don’t understand: You don’t understand about publishing a newspaper. In order to publish something like that you have to have the support of the publisher [and] the editor. And you have to have time. And [with] newspapers, you don’t have that time. Secondly, it’s not going to come out. Because McGovern’s going to self- destruct, Nixon’s going to win in a landslide, and nobody wants to be on the wrong side of this guy, because he’s vindictive and mean and he’ll go after newspapers.” And I said, ‘Well, how chickens--- is that?’”
After the junket, Redford went home to Utah, where he was preparing to film “The Way We Were,” reading everything he could about the break- in. “And then, when [Woodward and Bernstein’s] articles started to appear, I was right on them.”](https://plantroon.com/photo/preview/640/342101 "“I said, ‘Wait a minute, hold on,” Redford recalled. “You guys are here watching me make a fool out of myself [over] something trivial, [but] is there more to this?” And they really let me have it. They said, ‘There are three things you don’t understand: You don’t understand about publishing a newspaper. In order to publish something like that you have to have the support of the publisher [and] the editor. And you have to have time. And [with] newspapers, you don’t have that time. Secondly, it’s not going to come out. Because McGovern’s going to self- destruct, Nixon’s going to win in a landslide, and nobody wants to be on the wrong side of this guy, because he’s vindictive and mean and he’ll go after newspapers.” And I said, ‘Well, how chickens--- is that?’”
After the junket, Redford went home to Utah, where he was preparing to film “The Way We Were,” reading everything he could about the break- in. “And then, when [Woodward and Bernstein’s] articles started to appear, I was right on them.”")
There’s no way to see this decision other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty.
The Washington Post and LA Times refused to endorse a candidate. Why?
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#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #USPol
The Tatooine Post has decided not to endorse either Obi-Wan Kenobi or Darth Vader out of fear Vader may hurt its business if he's elected.
#WashingtonPost: Democracy dies with cowardice.
Right there with you.
Decades as a #subscriber of #WashingtonPost #WashPost and I’m done. Not one dime. Deleted all apps, blocked all newsletters, destroyed mail used for subscription.
There are better options out there! No more billionaire supported media!
#WaPo
#WashingtonPost
#JeffBezos
#FascismArrives
#DemocracyDiesInDarkness
#EatTheRich
