- The media covers whatever gets them paid.
- Trump figured out how to hack the media cycle. When the news gets spicy, he just makes even spicier news. (Real life “one simple trick!”)
- Everyone is so fatigued by the endless chaos that they start to tune it out.
- The eye of sauron shifts and nobody cares about January 6 anymore, because that mofo is an actual contender to be elected yet again. That alone is more palpably terrifying news.
Holy crap, what a based media outlet.
- They actually have data to back up their claims
- They provided the methodology they used to conduct their investigation
- They (correctly) identified it as Clinton’s server instead of Clinton’s emails
- They’re a not for profit
Media matters - I’ll personally remember that name and you should to. Real journalism. Based.
They are great, and have been around for quite a while now. Stephen Colbert (O’Lielly used to rail against them all the time; and cons call them “hateful”, lol):
I don’t think Stephen Colbert was being serious when he said that quote. Mind you, all the quote sites that cite him saying that do not provide the source. Based on his persona from The Colbert Report, I imagine this was part of a joke, especially given the names he called out.
Fun fact. Jan 6 is the the biggest criminal investigation in US history by sheer number of defendants. You’d never know from the way the news covers it.
News: “The little kerfuffle on Jan 6th. You probably never heard about it”
An investigation started under Trump, to seek out ANTIFA members who did it… Only to eventually give up on that narrative when they remembered it was themselves all along, so now instead of prison sentences they are calling them by anything but criminals. You know, those pro military, pro police people… Campaigning under a person who shits on the military over and over, and supports the people who assualted the police on Jan 6.
Democrats have heard Republicans whining about the “liberal media” for so long, they’ve accepted it as fact.
The third estate is not inherently benevolent or even benign. It is not your friend.
The peasantry?
I think you want the fourth estate.
Oh, i was confused why he was condemning the higher clergy, though on second thought, fuck those guys.
You are correct. My mistake.
Your mistate
As crazy as all of this is, what’s even crazier is that the actual truth, which is the full unredacted truth of this, is probably orders of magnitude worse than what we as public citizens are aware of.
The fact that this is not disqualifying is insane to me.
We continue to find more drips of the truth that many of us expected all along each week, like Kavanaugh’s obstructed FBI investigation for example.
History will not be kind to trump or his supporters and enablers. That is, if we’re allowed to write the truth of history.
I’m sure no one here is on the fence about voting, but PLEASE don’t be apathetic about it, even if you’re in a solidly blue state. Vote like your life depends on it. It just may be that important.
btw if you’re looking to have a more comprehensive coverage of jan 6th there are a couple of good resources out there.
If you’re into the heavy reading, the jan 6th report is really comprehensive and detailed. (check this link for the document source.)
if you’re more into long form run throughs (more of a podcast style) there’s this and the accompanying second part of it these were originally part of a 6 hour long stream, which i do have archived, but i believe the archive is currently down.
if you prefer a more short form docu series type there’s this though i haven’t watched this one through yet so take it with a grain of salt lol. (edit: i’ve watched like half of it since posting, it’s pretty much just a play by play of jan 6th as it happened, if you don’t want any commentary or anything, it’s a pretty good coverage of it.)
TL;DR nearly 900 page report, two indictments (one was post immunity ruling) a 6 hour panel over the facts of the j6 insurrection, broken into two parts, and a (probably) comprehensive documentary covering the events as well.
edit: added and cleaned up links.
Good stuff! Thanks for adding
yeah np, i try to make people more educated where i can, or at least push them to knowing that you can educate yourself on this stuff given enough time.
It’s better for society lol. Unfortunately it takes a shit ton of time though.
Major media are oligarchs. Oligarchs are fascists. Fascists follow Trump. Plain and simple
That’s what I came here to say. Who do you think owns the media???
“Yeah, but something something the news readers are registered Democrats, argle bargle” - the qons, not realizing the difference between the HELP and not the OWNERS. The help don’t call the shots.
How many papers are owned by left wing billionaires Alexa
But his documents.
It’s not like anybody is going to peek in the bathroom. Clearly secure.
lock him up!
lock him up!
WHAAAAT? Are you implying that the liberal media is not interested in doing anything to save democracy? Even if it means they, as the liberal media, will be among the very first ones targeted?
This is my shocked face.
Our media is almost exclusively owned by Republicans. Each and every one
The only thing liberal about corporate media is how liberal they are being with the definition of “liberal” when it’s applied to them as an adjective.
What? Are you saying that the liberal media’s own “everybody is sayin’” cover about how, they, the liberal media, are so very, very liberal (the Second Coming of Marx, even) is nothing but a total and complete sham?
not to shit on you here, but the classical defintion of liberal is extremely broad and not specific at all.
Technically speaking, the classical western concept of liberalism is basically shortened to “live and let live” so.
That’s cause Trump breaking the law isn’t news
It’s because they want him to win the election :-)
You guys it’s almost like the media wants him back in office or something.
to be clear, the media isn’t the thing we should be mad at here, it’s the government and the political system that has allowed this bullshit thus far.
Media outlets are never going to be “unbiased” it’s impossible, as demonstrated by conservatives being stupid as of late surrounding any number of events, including the recent debate. HOWEVER, we can simply report things ourselves, perhaps we should be moving towards a highly decentralized and vetted news system, rather than a more monolithic approach. Something that actually informs people on the important details, rather than being a “trust me bro” reporting system.
Maybe because it’s not as big of a story. J6 has been in the papers every other week since it occured.
It’s the biggest story in America’s political history since the civil war. Enemies of the nation struck at its heart and tried to kill it, and the lead traitor’s head is still attached to his body.
LOL, not as big of a story?
OK, but these two things aren’t the same. This indictment came out in August or 2023, then was thrown out almost a year later due to the immunity ruling, but the prosecutor immediately vowed to refile, which he did in late August, and now he’s released a bunch of Grand Jury documents that flesh out the case he’s been working on for 14 months.
It’s damning stuff, but not shocking, given that this story has been developing for over a year. It’s certainly not as shocking as the FBI director announcing that in investigation into a presidential candidate, which everyone thought had been concluded 2 months prior, has been reopened 11 days before an election.
The news media chases clicks. It’s bullshit, but that’s what happens when advertising revenue dictates the media’s interests. Knowing that, it makes a lot of sense that the story, “Documents released regarding last months refiled Trump indictment,” got less coverage than, “FBI director suddenly announced Clinton probe reopened! What are in the mysterious new emails?”
