Phang: Where are Americans supposed to go now to get their news? They come here. They come to independent media because we are not controlled by corporate overlords. This is the place you have to come now—because mainstream media is showing that it’s too scared to stand up to Donald Trump.
I get the independent media promotion, but it seems like the same factors that drive viewership are being adopted by Bulwark, MTN and others. “Trump crushed!”, “MTG owned by AOC!”, A ‘slammed’ B, deceptive title photos, etc.
‼️WOW-A$KING a Billionaire, who happens to be the sec. of education, how $he plans to $PEND THE TAX BILL MONEY TAKEN AWAY FROM CHILDREN. Link:👇 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
I have a lot of respect for Meidas, but like all other US media outlets, it’s heavily biased - in this case against trump. State media with 50/50 coverage order to receive fed subsidies is the only way forward. A little left and a little right makes for a compromise. You had that in the US
And it’s not even that long ago. Reagan fucked it up. That is the ONLY way to have a political discussion. The other side is not always wrong and you’re not always right. I hate MAGA, don’t assume otherwise
SO RIGHT KATIE
Done with mainstream and legacy media. No reason at all to support them any longer.
Absolutely true!
You can also go too FSTV.ORG or Democracynow.org !
As long as they get their merger they don't care what ut costs the rest of us
I feel like I want to know less than I do. It's too stressful having a clue what's going on.
Agree. Especially after we just watched another pathetic CEO grab their ankles at the Trump Freakoff.
Am I correct that Paramount has upcoming merger that they need his approval on to go thru? Probably part of reason for settlement. Caving for Self-interest over consumers
Thank you
Yes, we want truth, not “normalizing” Trump administration horrors.
Yep. Lately, in addition to CNN Abby Phillips and MSNBC The Morning Joe Show, I watch the Don Lemon Show and the Joy Reid Show on YouTube. The independent shows are able to pull experts from all over with less censorship.
I stopped watching MSM in 2016. I don't miss it
We need independent investigative reporters to corner these a-holes and ask tough questions.
Imagine being scared of that weak, pathetic, pedo
It's not an imagination, it's real. And I don't know why?
Yes! But we have to get independent news to more people somehow to fight back against the RW propaganda machinery. That's the moonshot that we need to be taking on. I don't know how it happens, but it has to happen or we're toast.
Meidas Touch Network, tTube channel, and many other platforms. GenZ... Adam Mockler also uTube channel.
Exactly!!
I'd change "too scared to stand up to" and say "in bed with" but yeah, indie media FTW!
exactly @katiephang.bsky.social i enjoy you people better like this anyways. uncensored and raw/ facts and the truth. MSM are un-patriotic on all levels, alot of them lie for their greedy owners. why did any of us serve for this country ? wake the fk up people in the usa.
This is a coerced bribe. THE CONVICT's propaganda mill has the green light to declare victory. The fact is . . . when The People lose the free press, "wannabe dictators" steal our democracy. CBS did nothing more than routine editing on that 60 Minutes with Harris that TACO failed to show up for!
As Walter Cronkite rolls in his grave, I will intentionally choose another network and independent news media for my news. CBS, you are dead to me.
I gave up on MSNBC after 1/6. I wish more folks would do the same.
Anything on MSNBC before 4 pm is RW. Seriously, more Republican and Republican adjacent guests, hosts, demure gutless reporting or outright normalization of the Trump administration with awkward chuckles.
MSM is over. Their glory days have ended. Power & politics control what they do or don't say now. A foreigner could come here & watch the days programming of a network & be able to tell you whose pocket they were in by what was broadcast! Independent media is the only one you can trust.
Anyone on DirecTV can access Free Speech TV. Also, Sirius XM has the Progressive channel.
Exactly
Agreed but in a qualified sense. Substack—venue of choice at the moment— needs to figure out a more efficient UI and bundled paywall so that the Katie and Steve Schmidt and Jim acosta et al habitués can tune in more affordably.
Keep On!
I read substack in the mornings. Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce Vance and Simon Rosenberg. Are you on this Katie? Thanks.
wait, hasn't she been out of corporate media for less than a year
Totally agree 💯
Truth.
Amen
Yes exactly! You can speak the truth because you don’t have a boardroom full of lawyers and accountants worried that if you say something that offends the mad king he will raise tariffs on international films which will negatively impact your entertainment portfolio and upset your shareholders
Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here: youtu.be/93Z6DiS8fkw
Done with Paramount! Boycott
Please stop saying that corporate media is afraid to do the right thing. IT IS ON HIS SIDE!! They are promoting him because they are owned by the billionaire class. They know exactly what they are doing. You know this.
Phang is really back!
I get all my news from you guys! 🙏🏻
They're not scared; they're greedy.
HEAR you Katie!… FEEL you!! BUT We are ALSO caught in Age of Miss/DisInformation. From thousands of Sources & hundreds of Agenda’s (ie; RU/Chinese BotFarms/Xlon) People are gonna hafta dig-in & flex their CritThinking Skills or all is lost. AND Only gonna get WORSE as Bots get MORE sophisticated.
The American public is not only getting screwed by the mad king, who thinks only about his own interest, but also by corporate newsmedia, who think only about their own interests.
Well she blocked me for no reason (seriously I could find nothing on my time line to justify that) so I'll pass. I was a huge fan right up till then.
Looks like you are on several block lists. Maybe she's subscribed to one of them. Check your own account here: clearsky.app
I love the racist as fuck list. Hilarious.
Man that's crazy. One of the top blockers has no posts except test ones. I guess they just troll and block.
Thank you.
Fun fact: ALL of legacy media has been wholly owned by right wing acquisition broligarchs since 2022. Katie, of all people, absolutely knows this, as Im sure you also do. Why has nobody reported on this fact, or even mentioned the Sun Valley meet ups they have to plot their national domination?
they cut a Merger Deal $$$ with Mob Boss Trumptrash.
What the hell is everyone afraid of. Seriously
They are too scared and/or want the world this regime is trying to implement. Access to tyrants isn't a flocking thing. Grow a pair!
Bluesky the Midas touch and all similar outlets that are actually concerned in reporting facts to the public are next People wake the fuck up we're in an autocracy there is no strong reliable government no moral base what do we expect not to happen will happen we're fucked‼️ ‼️WAKE UP America‼️
We are here and we are listening. Carry on. See you in the streets.
Does anyone remember the beyond ironic times Trump read the poem "The Snake" on the campaign trail? x.com/atrupar/stat...
Suggest y'all read Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat which outlines the authoritarian playbook. One of the early steps in the playbook is to muzzle the press. Up next is imprisoning reporters, judges and politicians so this gets worse. That book predicted everything that has happened this year.
CNN was 24/7 today about some disgraced rapper that hasn't been relevant for 20 my years.
I'd like to add that news here offers many more international and local perspectives!
...ended my Paramount subscription this morning. F**K THESE QUISLING CORPORATIONS!
Trump is not in control. He just does what he’s been cajoled to do. He rants about his crazy policies and executive orders keeping us distracted from the true power that seeks to destroy democracy. Trump is a pawn.
BBC World Service. Knowingly relied upon by all 3rd world countries.
Fascism requires a complicit media. Fascism requires anti-intellectualism.
Mainstream media is normalizing the de-naturalization of 25 million people and our brand new yet shoddily erected and highly dangerous (by design, I suppose) concentration camp.
My thanks to both of you, Acyn, for doing the work.
The corporate media are not too scared to stand up to Trump. They are his enablers. 🙄
It's even worse than this. Mainstream media is corporate media, and acts in accordance to its ownership structure (with some noise around the signal for added credibility). They criticize if convenient (see tariffs) and do not when it is not convenient (see genocide).
Fuck CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and fuck Paramount
I still watch Lawrence O’Donnell & Maddow on MSNBC.
I understand. I watch them on youtube. It's not the individual journalists that are the problem. It's the admins that are bending the knee in fear and loathing.
I like @katiephang.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social post MSNBC. I think it unshackled them. If the Right can have Newsmax and OAN, why can’t the Left have something similar?
Thank you, independent journalists.
I wouldn't say they're 'too scared'. They're greedy bastards who only care about profit and share prices. The corporate ownership is making money hand over fist with Trump in the WH and will do anything to keep that money flowing.
All networks and corporate and billionaire owned media only exist to make money. In the past 40 years, media (as well as most businesses) have shifted from a service model to a profit model. They are no longer participants in democracy and are in fact doing harm. Unchecked capitalism is a cancer.
Correct
Boycott MSM
Phang was good on MSNBNC, but she is on fire now👏
Phang, fangs out, living. Work b*tch.
No surprise…Netanyahu's warmongers at #CBS fired #DanRather to hide #Dubya's real #MilitaryRecords and his #WMD lies 🧵thread bsky.app/profile/edhi...
Compromised. BiBi knows.
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