I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
You'd think....
But, but, but..Biden's mental state! And Obama...and Putin...and whatever dog Trump decides to wag.
Tomight npr.org found several minutes for an ATC host to chat re GLP-1 agonists (shown to significantly reduce risk of heart attack [even before weight loss] & more recently risk of multiple cancers) as instruments of intersectional oppression. Obvs far more important that calling out police state.
I’m disappointed by a plethora of awful things lately and this is at the top of my list.
Corporate media has promoted and protected Trump for many years and will continue to do so. They are owned by rich men who believe a Trump regime will be good for them.
Threats, extortion, and bribery is all Dictator Don knows.
"seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs"--- ---Not when there are profits to be made by normalizing it all.
Tell that to the Legacy Media, not one has been truthful about the situation America is in. They are complicit in the lying, delusional world of Trump.
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On the other hand, how many times during that 4 decades did Cracker Barrel change its logo?
The hard-hitting information we all need. Uhm, what did the old one look like?
Yeah, a couple at least
One would think so… 🤯😤
Attempted in Los Angeles and DC neither has worked so far!
Not with our current corporate media who do Trump's bidding.
F E A R.
It's almost like the executives and shareholders have given the editorial boards their instructions.
Instead, @nbcnews.com does a story on putting Trump’s face on Mt. Rushmore. Mainstream media is failing us and is a disgrace
It would seem so.
If you were in the news business for that long, and didn't learn the difference between "news" and "opinion/analysis", that's just sad.
The media may want to make a little mention of his physical & mental deterioration.
It’s easier to lick the king’s boots.
It’s more profitable
That, too.
I think at first it seemed impossible to believe Now? Now there are too few people with a platform and the guts to use that platform for the kind of rabble-rousing truth telling we need to hear
Concept ...
They’re waiting for the invasions of Canada, Greenland and Mexico. Then, and only then will they use their precious ink.
You would think!
You have to explore worldwide media to get any real answers about what's going on in the US in this day and time. Fascism can NOT rise without the help of legacy media. Those that have laid down with fascism to control the narrative ? We'll see you after the revolution...
If the Media weren't such COWARDS, you would be correct 👽
If only several media outlets had not already bent the knee to stroke the ego of the idiot in charge
And yet, nothing. Silence is complicity
His lack of fitness for duty should be a screaming headline every day.
You’d think!
No news outlet is actual news anymore (in the US) all they do is propaganda and puff pieces
That’s crazy talk. They’ll just let us know when the nukes start flyin’.
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Media is too chickenshit scared of TacoBelle. Media needs to band together and GET IT RIGHT FOR ONCE!
US Daily News Orgs: "Meh." The Daily Blab: "Fascists on the March! Proud Boys Are Deputized! Military is Going Along! There Are No Guardrails Except for the American People. The Constitution is Toilet Paper!"
You would think….
You are so absolutely right. Where are the front page stories, the lead reports on the news?
Seems like.
for me, it was Jake Tapper. I never thought Tapper was especially talented, but certainly a regular guy, right? until that fucking book, going so far to suggest congressional hearings on Biden admin how many others didn't we see coming? and perhaps still obscuring who they are
Military state, they’re not police.
You'd think, but here we are with the media aiding and abetting a criminal takeover from a convicted criminal child rapists
Since the largest media companies are now owned by oligarchs or hope to be, no such luck. The call of authoritarianism is coming from inside the house.
Instead NPR will be doing a segment about what really is the crime rate in DC😑
Watching CBS Chicago now. That's how it should be done!
Blue State Govenors are calling out tRump for calling on National Guard to police States. They are forming a coalition. "Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern." Chris Armitage ·
While I understand reporters want to keep their access to the WH, it blows me away they all just let him say that they're fake news, 97% news is negative against him and that the media is mean to him, when all they do is kiss his big fat tush.
Too busy kissing the ring
Unfortunately the MSM morphed into a reality television cartoon of itself.
When I was a reporter, I prided myself on protecting the poor and voiceless. Today's press is about clickbait and driving traffic. The old scream at you editors who came up in the 60s and 70s are long gone.
sure would be. if legacy and big media weren't 5, maybe 6, billionaires in a trenchcoat
Yes…we’re waiting….
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
Pish tosh if there's no parade it's invalid AND there are a lot of end-of-summer sales that are far more important I am screaming inside 24/7
We Europeans knew this the moment JD Vance said Europe’s biggest enemy was “within”, all the while Russia was conducting crimes against humanity and thus proving Vance wrong.
The legacy media is not in it to help save our democracy. They are there to spread lies, ignore what's going on & placate the wannabe dictator cuz it helps them make more money! It is all about the greed, not ethical reporting of what is happing or doing what is morally right!
universal suffrage democracy only works if the population is educated. we got fascism behind it. bet. #geniocracy #PolitburoNow #DemocracyFail
Depends on who owns the news, though, doesn't it? If they same oligarchs turning us into a military state are the same ones whose interest it is in that people don't notice then things would go as they are currently are, imo.
Didn't Bezos say his paper's opinion page would focus on personal liberties? Surely they're hammering this like a jackhammer. Just checked and I see one piece on fantasy football and, holy shit, George Will is still alive? Megan McArdle? Ok, I'm out.
My hometown newspaper abandoned national news a couple of decades ago. It's mostly sports. Its readership is mostly Trumpy. My hometown alternative webzine also went hyperlocal, and mostly publishes puff pieces about local restaurant offerings. I've written for both. Not recently.
But I thought you said you were in the news business for 4 decades.....
@cnn.com @nytimes.com are no longer the font of information and Reporting. They are too afraid to stand up for themselves. So they're leaving it to a bunch of gray hair Old hippies to work it out.
I keep thinking back to that 70s movie "Network." Seems like turning news broadcasting into a branch of entertainment finally had consequences.
SCOTUS, POTUS, DOJ, AG, DoD, Senate GOP, Speaker, House GOP, and their minions are all playing fast and loose Calvinball with the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Rule of Law, the separation of powers, our international reputation and the honor of our country! SAD! #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸
100% correct. The world knows it already.
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The " press" is doing exactly what their owners tell them to do. Murrow Cronkite and Pyle been dead a long time now. All the Presidents men had their One moment and thats gone.
They still refuse to believe it. I’m not even looking at the headlines of the WaPo or NYT anymore. I just come here to see what’s trending. It’s all I need to know. And to see if he’s dead yet.
Very little coverage in Europe either Mark. There's a closed MSM news agenda now.
We are left with Bagdad Bob Journalists.
It's ALMOST as if his donors that want protected tax status are in charge of the headlines...
Or as Joe Kahn would put it, “A bold innovation which Democrats say violates certain Constitutional norms.”
no society has ever been failed by an institution more completely than the american people have been failed by the collaborationist court media
Woodward et al would be *fucked* in 2025.
No shit! Might be nice if the MSM who helped get us here would be honest about the dangers of where we are now!!
They’re complicit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
I remember when the press was OUTRAGED by the faintest hints of authoritarianism in, say, the elected government of Nicaragua in 1984. But, you know, Nicaragua's a big, powerful country, unlike the small, minor, sparsely populated USA.
Ya think ?🤔
You’d think so, right?
At least a few.
BUT DID YOU SEE JOE BIDEN TRIP ON THE SIDEWALK???? 👀🙄
Doesn't test well with desirable demos.
He has lied for a living his entire life. We need a full time fact-checking crew to monitor the lies and respond with factual truth - and a media outlet to display it. It would generate high ratings.
The MSM is not working for the majority’s interests. They are consistent in producing propaganda for a ruling class.
Don't you think most people, besides MAGA, know by now that he's a compulsive liar and nothing he says is true? We're far beyond fact checking.
not really, no. It would be great for everyone to have a source of truth. Fact-checked data, clarified 'opinion' and supported TRUTH
40% of Americans avoid any news at all costs …
I wonder why?
exact opposite of how billionaire broligarchs feel?
much like justice system professionals feel.
I’m not in the news business but I would think it would be front page news.
Imagine if Biden or Obama had said they wanted to be a dictator. Fox News would find a way to slow Earth's rotation so that they could have more hours in each day to rabidly rant about it. Donald says it, and it's: "WOOO!! WE LOVE DICTATORS!!!"
Ya think? And yet we’re getting stories about Amazon’s Labor Day sales instead.
☝️TRUTH!
Yep. Nothing to see her.
The Murdockroaches and their ilk are all behind the Trumpster lickin' their slobbering lips!
In which newspaper?
Because the billionaire-owned MSM is in on it.
Glad to hear from someone who was actually in the news business who will share their thoughts and experiences in regards to what is happening now. 🙏🏻
Or longer than a 1 minute radio conversation
Exactly! Where the hell is MSM?
One would think.
As long as the headline starts "Trump says..." they'll publish pretty much anything after that.
Haven't seen any papers headlining Our town could be next. With preparation guidelines, possible closings, road blocks, no knock door busting. ALL TV news should be blasting the possibilities. It IS going on so it IS the story to tell.
Trump has eliminated nearly all the journalists who try to do their jobs properly and with integrity. NBC abd ABC are next in his crosshairs.
The media is treating all of this and everything else as simply another trending issue and it’s because they’re also crabs in slowly boiling water they don’t realize what has changed.
When does the “Oh shit” moment happen for them? Will it ever happen?
Every damn day!
It’s insane Mark. Hopefully Theo Vonn and Joe Rogan do it justice.
Please tell me you’re watching Nicolle Wallace right now.
I am! And I do, every afternoon I possibly can!!
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They are too fucking lame. They’re too busy trying to grab their own headliner… for themselves.
They were strategic enough to infiltrate the media first
It's only been 7 months and your Country looks like a 3rd world dictatorship. I fear it is to late - your media and politicians have little influence now.
If Trump told you he ended 10 wars, would you have asked him to name one?
Absolutely! What's wrong with the News?
Nah, they’re all competing to be head of propaganda They have no interest in real news, you know, like the death of American democracy
Other than a few standouts, they can’t now. They are afraid of either Trump or their editors and proprietors. And then there’s the group that just don’t want to criticise him. He’s great for business and they got a tax cut.
Or - now I know this is crazy-talk, but hear me out - practice some journalistic pushback!
The US has ALWAYS been a police state.
Fascism kills the free press and the USA has none left
Can we stop it? “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. … reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed - … Against stupidity we are defenseless.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945) "On Stupidity" - Letters and Papers from Prison
Always baffles me when I see groups of people afraid of just one. Makes no sense.
Sounds like a reasonable and modest request. Question: Do journalists from big mainstream press feel any guilt at all for working at companies with little credibility and as town criers for Trump? Drinking the koolaid for the money more important than truth? I don’t rely on any of them anymore. Sad.
Please, just don't ever say again that maybe you don't know much. Thanks.
The media loves the stench coming from Shitler's ass.
We need to start really going after the media — start shaming, boycotting, going after their advertisers. I now assume they’ve got people on the list if they’re not calling all this out every damn hour. Unfair? Then prove me wrong and do your jobs!
It would be if mainstream news wasn’t up chump’s ass.
No part of any msm group has the cajones to print something like that. "Baseless" is the most harsh word they use. I'm even surprised at that...
They took the newspapers first
You would think.
If only we still had honest journalism.
niemanreports.org/netanyahu-vs... Guess where it's coming from? 'Netanyahu has put disproportionate energy and time and effort' into swaying media coverage - Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler
Ain't that the truth!!
MSM: "Thank you for your input. Your opinion is important to us. Your comments will be managed by a chirpy-voiced machine, which should assist you in understanding precisely how little effort will be expended to ship it directly to the Trash folder at the end of the universe. Good bye!"
Sorry Mark, I was only in the media for nearly 3 decades. Feels like a good time for someone to write a book about how old Joe Biden is again.
Sure seems like it Mark. But corporate media have already bowed down to Trump. They can no linger be trusted.
YES!!! Hello MSM, are you out there?!
You would think a normal person might agree, but we prefer to cower to the stinking mess.
Yes!
You indicated the problem in your first sentence, the news "business". Concern over the bottom line completely eliminated any sense of serving the public long ago, just like it has with most of our elected representatives and most of the people all around us. Greed is a good thing?
Not to the Oligarchs. Their goal is to lie profusely to confuse and cover up
It’s what happens when the oligarchs take over the media
Ditto
I never realized that Second Coming type is reserved for the actual second coming.
Not when Trump controls the media
this is what the billionaires that own the media want they change the narrative ANY TIME They WANT
It's a project that's been in the making certainly since Reagan and his war on drugs which was the justification for supercharging police budgets and exploding the prison population.
No kidding!
Yep Even 1 sentence
You’d think so, but they’re afraid to be sued.
The news business today…not even close to the way it was. At the time its needed most.
You would think!
I think the crumbling of institutions and people I respected is the most disheartening thing for me. I *knew* Trump was awful and would do terrible stuff. I naively thought there were prominent people and institutions that would stand up. I was wrong about so many things.
It would have been in amidst Mr. Jacob. Today in this pay to play society what is not newsworthy is a matter of who pays to smother a real story. But you all heard about your preztater pulling out his Sharpie to make burning a flag an offence with a year in jail.
Rupert Murdoch is Trump's biggest promoter through his hideous Fox lies outlet
#Respect
1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.
We don't have a "free press" anymore.
The so-called “free press” has turned into cowardly fools. Where is Katherine Graham and Ben Bradley when we need them?
Mark, you should write many guest columns. Thanks.
Pritzker calling out MSM right now!
Rightfully so
Well the folks who own the news agencies now weren't either spineless or completely in with the fascists. So seeing headlines about it are not very likely.
yes I would like to point out the exceptions
The entire media is either gagged or too cowardly to report what everybody can clearly see. A dementia addled felon is building the tracks to a permanent autocracy,using Hitler's tactics to achieve it. While he's too befuddled to know his DOS vs the Governor of Michigan, racism and misogeny rule.
I've never been in the news business...but I fully concur and agree...more so with said state being *supposedly* the most powerful in the world and the leader of democracy and the free world. Anyway, gotta go read up on "important" news like some blond chick with jeans and golf...or something. 🤮
Not if you’re part of the coup.
They are terrified. I think it's hilarious that Corporate USA is terrified of the Administration while we are out fighting it. We don't need Legacy media anymore. They are shills for the Ruling Class. We can take care of this. I believe in people power.
The lede graf will be about her emails.
The present day media is the mouthpiece for the oligarchy.
It does seem like it would be worth a mention…or an entire headline.
Right!
In recent days I’ve noticed more and more international media dropping any pretense and just bluntly stating what’s happening here, e.g.
NO KIDDING‼️
Every day. Please.
MSM is MIA.
You would think so; yet, here we are. We are all in danger!!! 🤬🤬🤬
AGREE!👊
Oh Mark, if only you had 10 decades then maybe you'd have some clout.😘
Also A bit of reporting on the Gaza genocide would be appropriate
Cowards
@nytimes.com