Not so. And either you are totally gullible, or just misinformed. The Russians want you to mistrust and be angry at all media. And so does Trump. You are either one of them of playing into their hand. Duh!
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Your assumptions are stuck in the early 2010s. We’ve learned a lot, and a lot has happened, since. The ease of access journalism and corporate media consolidation, accelerated under Trump, has turned the press writ large into a fascist organ. Try reading 2 equivalent stories in US vs foreign media.
aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view
The press I read is certainly not a "fascist organ" by any stretch of the most vivid imagination. In fact it is overwhelmingly vehemently opposed. btw. I read foreign media too.
aug 31, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re compounding the mistake that us liberals made after watergate, which was to lionize the press as incorruptible and interested solely in the public good. We over-interpreted one event and blindly defended the media class for decades as being on the side of liberal democratic values. Not so.
aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Not only was it not true in the 1970’s, it’s deeply, comically untrue now. These are profitseeking institutions whose owners are deeply invested in the fascist cause, essentially without exception. The virtue of a few individual journalists is utterly immaterial. The apparatus is utterly corrupt.
aug 31, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
You claim "These are profit seeking institutions whose owners are deeply invested in the fascist cause". Some may or may not be fascist. Many just like the tax breaks. Aa long as I get access to great human, environmental and anti-fascist reporting, then I can live with that. That is what matters.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s no anti fascist reporting in any US legacy media and if you think there is you just have a tragically high threshold for noticing fascism. Which is true of a lot of Americans, which is the problem. If you can “live with” our current situation vis a vis the media, you’re part of the problem.
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
"There’s no anti fascist reporting in any US legacy media" isi blatantly and demonstrably false. Maybe you are part of the problem.
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
You are definitely part of the problem. The consensus framing by US media of our current situation is wildly beneficial toward fascism. Deliberately so. Just because you can find bits of reporting you like doesn’t mean that the entire apparatus is oriented toward deception and collaboration.
aug 31, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
You are definitely part of the problem. Where did you buy the glass onion? It's not "bits of reporting" it is almost exclusively. Are you real? Or just pretending to be. Cause I've seen AI act the same.
aug 31, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
And, noticing you’re Canadian, I would humbly offer that there’s enough of a difference in our media ecosystems that you may simply not fully understand what’s going on in the United States or how bad it’s gotten.
aug 31, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
We have our problems like the predominately owned and Republican influenced National Post which is the dominant print media across the country. But I subscribe to many US based media companies. And foreign owned. And as a paid subscriber to all, I do understand what I read and what is going on
aug 31, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m afraid I now need to dismiss your opinion. Nothing personal and I sympathize with your optimism but at this point it’s extremely counterproductive.
aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
So nicely said. Only a "machine" could have that way with words.
aug 31, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The framing of events is so funhouse-mirror crazy in US media that the downstream merits or failures of individual articles or journalists is beside the point. The gun is facing backwards.
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
you aren’t even american
aug 31, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you ever heard of dual citizenship? Or in your world, would that just be another clone?
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
That whole “the Russians want to turn us into a low-trust society like them” thing is true…. But it happened. It worked. And the reason trust evaporated isn’t because the Russians tricked us, it’s because trust really was broken (with their help) by all of civil society from the press on down.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
“Oh Trump wants us not to trust each other so we should continue to put faith in people and outlets who have exposed themselves as corrupt charlatans intentionally shaping public opinion for obviously fascist aims” is bullshit. You’re just mourning for an era where trust was possible. I understand.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view