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Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America (www.inquirer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by CuriousLibrarian@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Will Bunch expresses what I've been thinking since Trump was elected. American democracy is under attack from within. The fascists who yearn for an authoritarian government in the media are promoting it, and the media who supposedly don't support it fail to recognize it. They are busy trying to follow the political playbook of the 20th century.

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[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchy

owns most local news papers and prints nothing but propaganda no news of local city council or county council meetings everything is being decided behind closed doors without the people and noone is there to report otherwise

everything is awesome just look at this new eatery "insert gentrified town here" is being blessed with

[-] thefloweracidic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is anyone really surprised by this? Or am I just so deeply under my rock I can't relate to normal people anymore? :(

[-] nutbiggums@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

When you're surrounded by ignorance it becomes difficult to find the island of reason

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Whats happening is decades of bubbles neatly sorted by Reagan beginning to hurst at capacity. This is what happens when you allow media to capture specific audiences and muse to them endlessly on a single bias. This is what happens when you stop forcing people to cover news on all sides. They pick a side and divide the populace. None of this is surprising, or even hard to understand. There are no adults in the room, there never were.

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[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

"and the media who supposedly don’t support it fail to recognize it", this is such a purposefully obtuse take, of course they recognize it, what they also recognize is FOX News ratings, and the advertising revenue which are derived from it's popularity, and in the age of shrinking consumer interest in the safe middle of the road answers, have worked to gin up the controversy, because that's where the money is. this is what drives the majority of all news organizations, the desire to garner more eyeballs, more interest, more ad revenue. this is all on purpose. and who's to blame them for it, everyone wants to fill up their own ricebowl. journalists want to remain employed, there's only so many spots at msnbc. news orgs could today simply state the overwhelmingly disastrous one sided republican onslaught, which would be factual, and it would lose viewership. news organizations, not like "if it bleeds, it leads" wasn't already their foundation principle since the beginning of the written word, decided, fuck it, we're going all in.

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