Reporters. Are you just reporting what Trump or his spokespeople say, or are you reporting what is actually happening? If the former, you're just repeating government propaganda.
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@petergleick It's worse than simply repetition
It's amplifying & spreading propaganda using the media
It makes the journalist complicit
It's not journalism
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It is hard, often impossible now, to differentiate between the work of the media and that of a stenographer.
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@CindyWeinstein @petergleick That does seem to be how reportage is done on the interwebs and most corporate media are leading that charge. Anyone posting a link without comment say hey!
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@petergleick It's the former. Definitely the former.
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"You simply cannot cover Trump’s 2nd term accurately & responsibly if you are not willing to situate his acts as part of a terrifying descent into #authoritarianism, racism, & cruelty.
And the mainstream political #media – for a variety of reasons — is not willing to do anything of the kind.
...Rather than speaking truth to power, they have become stenographers with amnesia"
https://presswatchers.org/2025/01/why-is-trump-coverage-so-feeble/
[#]Press #News #Journalism #GOP #Trump #DonaldTrump #Politics #USPol #US #USA
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