"Journalist Jennifer Schulze of Heartland Signal noted today that as of 8:00 this morning, the New York Times had published 192 pieces on Biden’s debate performance: 142 news articles and 50 opinion pieces. Trump was covered in 92 stories, about half of which were about the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Biden #Trump #age #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2024-friday
"Although Trump has frequently slurred his words or trailed off while speaking and repeatedly fell asleep at his own criminal trial, none of the pieces mentioned Trump’s mental fitness."
"The New York Times has run 192 stories about Biden’s debate performance and only 6 about Project 2025, according to media watch groups, since Thursday night."
~ Jay Kuo
#Biden #Trump #age #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail #Project2025
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/some-tips-on-riding-this-out-more
Rebecca Solnit asks why the pundit class is so desperate to torpedo Biden in the same way it did to Hillary when she ran against Trump. People so "utterly convinced of their own ironclad rationality and objectivity" at the same time they have no clue about their emotional lives, biases, and motives….
#Biden #Trump #age #NewYorkTimes #MediaFail #Project2025
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit
"We are deciding if this nation has a future as a more-or-less democratic Republic this November, and on that rides the fate of the earth when it comes to acting on climate change. If the US falters at this decisive moment in the climate crisis, it will drag down everyone else’s efforts. Under Trump, it will."
"But the shocking supreme court decisions this summer and the looming threat of authoritarianism have gotten little ink and air, compared to the hue and cry about Biden’s competence. …
The electorate votes based on how they understand the situation and evaluate the candidates. That is, of course, in large part shaped by the media, … and the media is right now campaigning hard for a Democratic party loss. The other term for that is a Republican victory."
Part of the answer to the good question R. Solnit asks is that the pundit class is overweeningly arrogant, convinced of its own objectivity and neutrality when it's wildly the opposite of objective and neutral. I think corporate media mavens, who want to position themselves as powerbrokers, imagine that the fascism the Republicans promise to bring us will be fascism-lite for them, though hapless others will be hurt.
The movers and shakers of Germany as Hitler rose to power, including its media mavens, had the same fantasy: we can control Hitler, and the ones who get hurt will, of course, be the usual victims. Not us.
Then Hitler and the Nazis quickly proved them wrong and their arrogance was exposed as colossal blindness, and they found out that EVERYONE gets hurt when you open the door to fascism.
Ignoring TFG when he says he wants journalists and editors arrested and put in prison for straying from the party line would be a monumental mistake.
And a mistake I think the media is currently making.
@ScottSoCal I couldn't agree more.