Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Bending the knee


Media organizations in the US are expected to bend the knee now:

There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM

I call out mainstream media a lot, as an opinion writer who’s watched them bow to the demands of the Right and abandon their duty to truth and pluralism. But it was always just a half step toward the goal of replacing them with actual propaganda organs whose only job is amplifying the MAGA agenda.

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— Jeff Yang (@originalsp.in) February 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Major media companies are reversing their longstanding stance against settling defamation claims, instead paying Trump large sums to resolve baseless lawsuits—raising alarms about press freedom. @jenrubin.bsky.social explains.

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— The Contrarian (@contrariannews.org) February 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The money-grubbing pettiness is the point, I guess:

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