You put out headlines with trump in the title to get the clicks. This is what you’ve been signing up for and now you’re being replaced assholes.
This week, the White House sank to a new low on that front, holding a first-of-its-kind “New Media Press Briefing.” While inviting journalists from smaller, less established outlets to the White House is ostensibly a good idea, that’s not what the administration did. Indeed, instead of inviting actual journalists to the event, the White House populated it with a slew of friendly influencers who were all too happy to kiss the president’s ass and ask White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt the softest of softball questions. It was bullshit questions and bullshit answers all the way down.
Leavitt kicked the briefing off by bragging about the administration’s various “accomplishments” over the past 100 years, er sorry, I meant days. “As I promised at my first briefing as press secretary back in January, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities—not just the legacy media who traditionally has covered this institution,” Leavitt said.___
Some press coverage. Tim Pool was taking millions of dollars from the Russian government and White House press pool included a reporter from the Falun Gong-owned Epoch Times.
This is a great article and another reason I’m so mad at the media. The headline is Tim Pool Podcast Reportedly Joins the White House Press Pool. If you don’t know who he is, you think it’s a boring article on the dude they hired, not the true POS he is. Your headline would be great.
Last year, an indictment from the U.S. Justice Department alleged that Pool and others had been paid by a Russian influence operation that sought to capitalize on anti-Ukrainian sentiment and seed it into the U.S. population through rightwing media. After the indictment dropped, Pool tweeted that he’d had no idea about the Russian affiliation. “That being said, we still do not know what is true as these are only allegations,” Pool said in a post on X. “Putin is a scumbag, Russia sucks donkey balls.” He later deleted the tweet.
This isn’t LAMF material
I guess traditional media is getting their face eaten? Kind of and barely?
Rewritten it could work but as it is written and posted it’s a weak ass LAMF imo.
More depressing than anything.
At this time, 12 people agree with you, but 511 don’t.
Ah, I love the old Reddit mentality of everything being a popularity contest. At least, when you’re laying awake at night, lonely, contemplating your impending mortality and how you’ll never be remembered after you die except by maybe a couple people, you’ll feel the warmth that comes from the knowledge that several hundred strangers on the internet clicked a button for you once.
That’s where true happiness comes from.
“Let me lie and brainwash you directly”
Trump and his team has made the movie Idiocrazy (2006) completely obsolete 😅
But the characters in Idiocracy meant well, they were just idiots. These fuckers are straight up evil idiots.
They still can’t top Jeff Gannon but they’re getting very close.
Wtf? I was speaking to a bunch of people I know last weekend about this. Did all of the Trump stuff happen under Bush, and we were shielded from most of it because he didn’t say it out loud? Twitter wasn’t a thing yet either, so people didn’t have an easy way to whistle blow or keep track.
I know that trump and the republicans did a lot of this same stuff last term. Most of it really, it was just that Republicans are in charge of every single branch now and cheating more and more. They’re also setting it up to cheat even more in the future, so the new parts are really scary, but this went on last term too.
America has been compromised for a long time.
The White House faced fresh accusations of a clandestine propaganda campaign yesterday after it emerged it granted regular access to a rightwing blogger with a habit of asking President Bush easy questions.
The fake White House correspondent quit his job at the Talon News site on Wednesday after liberal bloggers found he had been operating under a pseudonym, and that he was linked to several gay pornographic web domain addresses under his real idenity, James Guckert.
The extent of Gannon’s links to an earlier White House scandal - the leaking of the name of the CIA agent Valerie Plame - also remained unclear yesterday. Gannon has been targeted for questioning in that case.
“It’s just common sense that the White House knew who Jeff Gannon was, and they were waving him in for a reason,” said David Brock, director of Media Matters for America, the liberal monitoring group which named the reporter last week.
Gannon’s unmasking comes only weeks after the Bush administration admitted paying handsome sums to three conservative commentators to promote its social programmes in print, radio and TV, and has led to calls from Democrats for an explanation.
Did all of the Trump stuff happen under Bush, and we were shielded from most of it because he didn’t say it out loud?
It was all widely reported and remarked upon for the better part of the Bush Presidency. But liberals just choose to forget. We don’t talk about the gross abuses of power and manipulation of public opinion under Bush or Reagan or Nixon anymore. And if you bring it up, you’re discounted as a crank or an apologist.
America has been compromised for a long time.
Practically since Day One. You can find parallels to this historical moment running straight back to the Adams administration. American liberal democracy is deeply flawed and fundamentally broken, thanks to the privatization and monopolization of so much of the social infrastructure surrounding it.
But we generate enormous amounts of wealth for an enfranchised minority. So please don’t rock the boat. Just vote a bit harder next time. Everything will be fixed in the next election cycle, we promise.
You’re right, you’re right. The only thing I keep thinking is, the people are wonderful. You know, not the batshit 36-42% range that are die hard MAGAs, but the rest are amazing.
🔹We’ve fought for and won* many challenges that were then accepted in other parts of the world because of our movies and tv shows.
- Civil Rights
- LGBTQ+
- Women’s
- Wars were ended
(they’ve had their ups and downs)
🔹When there is a catastrophe anywhere in the world, we send people, resources and money there. We do this as volunteers, Seattle empties a bit whenever there is a huge disaster anywhere. Donations are incredible to watch.
🔹We have non-for-profits that really do some great good in the world.
Whenever I think about our corrupt politicians, I remember the people are actually better than than the batshit 35% or so our politicians represent right now.
The funny part is that the same people bank rolling the presidency are the same people bankrolling the legacy media AND the social media influencers.
There is one group to blame for all this and it’s not hard to find them … anyone that controls billions of dollars of wealth, controls the country.
There is one group to blame for all this and it’s not hard to find them
I’m told it is anyone who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000.
I mean we’ve been on the path to fascism since Bush vs Gore, so maybe we can collectively shit on Nader for being an egotistical asshat.
With every month that passes, a conviction grows in me: “Billionaires shouldn’t exist.”
Without a doubt, I say there should be a cap on personal wealth, say 1 billion, because I can’t really see why one person would ever need more than that to live comfortably. Then every dollar made over that goes straight to the federal government.
Essentially a new income tax bracket for only the wealthiest of individuals that is permanently set at 100%
I don’t know about a hard cap. Shelves and caps tend to inspire creative accounting just shy of fraud, and we can achieve the same effect with an accelerated scale that curtails runaway capital accumulation.
What I would be most interested in seeing is the introduction of public equity. Corporations of course benefit hugely from public services/infrastructure but often are directly funded by the US government. Any venture capital group or bank funding these companies would demand equity in return, yet the government doesn’t ask for equity on behalf of the public. The average citizen is offered only a share of the increased public debt.
And it’s not pocket change we’re talking about. Even if one only counts the larger stimulus budgets of recent history, they can match them to historic share prices and just track the growth and dividends of those shares as the returns compound over time. They would find that it’s a sizable stake in these companies that the public is owed (and a controlling stake in the case of full bail-outs, meaning decision-making power).
Taxes are definitely important, but easier to side-step or postpone for large public corporations, who have many options for how they represent their finances. Equity on the other hand is far simpler. It’s cumulative, so as long as the correct percentage of shares are transferred, future taxes are guaranteed paid, and more importantly they can no longer finagle a $0 tax liability while at the same time distributing revenue to shareholders, because the public is a shareholder. And the growth of that equity increases public wealth in step with the market. That way the average citizen always has a baseline stake in the economy, a birthright entitlement, which might better reflect the actual value offered to a company by the public.
Edit: forgot to mention, this is a rather direct pathway to Universal Basic Income (UBI), which is often criticized for being difficult to get off the ground. One of the coolest features of Public Equity is that if instead of reinvesting dividends you send them to shareholders as a distribution, you now have UBI.
One of them being Russia is bankrolling most of it
I’m genuinely curious to know whether the majority of Lemmyites believe Tim Pool gets more money from Vladimir Putin’s bagman than Google’s YouTube advertisements and SuperChat kickbacks.
So many Americans do not seem to want to believe their own network of oligarchs have deep pockets and a wide net of social media influencers. As though organizations like DailyWire and One America News Network and the Murdoch suite of publications simply don’t exist. The Mercers, the Adelsons, the Kochs, The Thiel Foundation, The Hoover Institute, the American Enterprise Institute… its like they don’t even exist.
Well, where are they, exactly?
Hiding from guillotines.
I think it’s time to make an American version of the guillotine where we replace the sharp blade with a giant rock, and keep everything else the same.
It seems appropriate
Given the seeming plummet of intelligence in the US we should name it the Ungabunga. The fact that cavemen didn’t live in caves and weren’t dumb is the other half of the reason.
People never lived in caves? Excuse me, what?
Maybe they’re conflating the word cavemen with neanderthals.
I mean, archaeologists would argue that both did, there’s simply less found evidence of neanderthals doing it, but it is there. Fires, butchered animal bones, clearly intentional burials, art, the only evidence they haven’t found is a sign on a nail saying “home sweet home”.
That’s the common interpretation though. Not in science of course.
The American version is calling up Israel for a bombing run.
Contributing millions to dark pacs, which bankroll media outlets either directly or through ad money.
Although now I’m sure they’re also buying shitcoins in closed door meetings at maralago as well.
It is pretty funny since the media wanted this little shit show badly for the money. Oopsies
I’ve said this before, but a NYT reporter said exactly that during trump’s first term. He said that he would rather have trump than anyone else because people want to read about him.
The media sure sowed a lot of wind with Trump. I guess now it’s time to reap.
Yeah I remember that quote it was fucking sickening and really was a good reminder of how shit the media is in the US
Do you remember where you saw it? I know it was on Preet Bharara’s podcast, but I couldn’t find it once I looked for it. I don’t even know if he’s still doing that show.
Edit: He is, I just checked.
How shit the media is
FTFY
If you look at Europe, Salvini and Meloni were basically brought in the spotlight by Italian media that gave them a platform to spew their xenophobic, sexist and classist bullshit
The media is the true deep state.
I mean, its possible to oversimplify.
The media did it’s job. Any objective mind would have read about the pussy grabbing and the promise to have Mexico build the Wall and voted against Donnie.
It’s like blaming the people who make swimwear for people intentionally drowning themselves.
The news did some absolute basic level reporting on obvious things. They also promoted him and Republicans to the front page constantly for clicks and to sell ads and glossed over his nazi rallies and downplayed the insurrection and unironicslly have “what people are saying” trash where crazy people are given equal time with rational people regularly.
Media is a huge part of why the shitty parts of society aren’t embarassed enough to reconsider their shitty views. Why would they when the media keeps putting someone who matches their stupid opinions on the front page? Why would they question the purpose of doge when the news keeps saying cuts are for efficiency despite never being about efficiency?
Yeah. Failure to regulate broadcast media, and not clarifying social media platforms as broadcast media played a huge role in creating this shit show
The media has a shit ton of power. I post every weekday the politics and finding real news is next to impossible. They are not doing its actual job, that’s the problem.
Edit: I should say, mostly the headline creators aren’t doing their job. Usually the real articles are hidden under a vague, water-downed headline.
It’s been quite exhausting seeing this shit show unfold.
Why is this website so utterly broken? The cookie policy pop-up can’t be dismissed and I can’t click anything on the page.
I run an adblocker, so I don’t see any of that. I know it’s harder on your phone sometimes, but firefox lets you there too.
Welcome to the future of journalism.
What’s his favorite color?
“the best color”
Colors you’ve never see — you’ve never heard of these colors, he says, and many people are saying, I saw a mantis shrimp the other — can you believe — and mantis shrimp were treated very badly, what’s going on, and he said he’s never seen such a color, but they don’t report on that, the crooked lying media, I tell ya, if a mantis shrimp just one time — if, right in the mouth, if one of these journalists had to say it right to their face, one of these mantis shrimp, they wouldn’t last one second against — I’ve seen how fast these guys punch, believe me.
Man, I’ve seen many attempts that don’t go off the rails enough, but this one is just… Chef’s kiss.
Green
Gold or Orange
