Also, I’ve found that some of the clearest reporting on America’s authoritarian turn isn’t coming from U.S. outlets but from foreign journalists and media.
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Yes! I’ve been checking daily since the inauguration. I find Spain, France and Italy mainstream papers to be among the best. FT also very good.
aug 17, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
French media has been extremely clear and direct. It makes the NYT look like lightweight government propaganda.
aug 17, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Obviously.
aug 18, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
That's why I have a subscription to the Guardian
aug 17, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
FT, Globe and Mail, Der Spiegel, etc.
aug 17, 2025, 5:20 pm • 10 1 • view
Guardian US
aug 17, 2025, 5:23 pm • 11 1 • view
Yep…they’ve been excellent! And so have Wired. Yep foreign outlets, non-mainstream outlets (Guardian, Wired, etc.) have the distance necessary to objectively describe what is happening .
aug 17, 2025, 5:25 pm • 10 2 • view
Teen Vogue
aug 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 8 0 • view
That’s right!
aug 17, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you!
aug 17, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
IMO it’s been that way for years. Honest reporting comes from outside of the US. And if it is international news you want don’t even bother with US media… they live in the me me me bubble
aug 17, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Here at home there are still @newyorker.com and @motherjones.com — and analysis by historians like the incomparable @hcrichardson.bsky.social
aug 17, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
64 page pdf Democracy Report 2025 page 46 👇 "The scale of what is happening in the US is unprecedented and prompts a closer look at what seems to be the fastest evolving episode of autocratization the USA has been through in modern history" www.v-dem.net/documents/61...
aug 19, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
Since 2016 what we needed was for US outlets to put their foreign correspondents on to cover our political situation. Not their political correspondents who are stenographers. Have their international journalists cover us like they would cover a foreign country. That is the way.
aug 18, 2025, 5:32 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 18, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
'twas always thus. A lack of decent public education has created a nation unable to see beyond its borders. Not stupid, just ignorant.
aug 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 1 • view
We agree. @zeitzoff.bsky.social Here’s an illustration . open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...
aug 17, 2025, 6:04 pm • 7 2 • view