Parker Molloy cleverly calls her take-down of the disgraceful coverage of Trump's McDonald's stunt, "'You Want Lies With That?'" News Media Struggle to Cover Trump's Potemkin McDonald's Photo Op."
Then she adds,
"Journalists need to stop reacting to political stunts like babies with keys jingling in front of their faces."
#Trump #media #MediaFail #McDonalds
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/you-want-lies-with-that-news-media
"If you read coverage from outlets like ABC News or Politico, you’d walk away thinking Trump was flipping burgers in a bustling McDonald’s, interacting with everyday customers. Neither mentioned that the location was closed or that the 'customers' were part of a pre-arranged setup."
They know better. They just do not intend to do better. He plays them like a fiddle, and they willingly ask him, "What string do you want to pluck today, maestro?"
"There’s no reason to be confident about how any mainstream media would react to coercion from Trump.
The New York Times seems to be on an island of neutrality now, often putting a soft focus on Trump’s authoritarianism with obtuse headlines and ridiculous euphemisms. If dictatorship descended, would the Times describe detention camps as 'involuntary gatherings'”?
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #media #MediaFail #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/if-trump-wins-will-major-media-fall
"Yesterday, Trump staged one of the most insulting PR stunts in the history of modern politics, and the corporate media covered it like it was a brilliant, game-changing maneuver. Visiting a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, Donald spewed lies about Kamala Harris, and briefly pretended to work the fryer. Then he held a deranged 'press conference,' and another hate rally."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #media #MediaFail #McDonalds
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/corporate-media-thought-wed-fall
"Once again, the corporate media took Donald’s bait and ran with it. They found a way to spin the story to look great for Trump, propping up his campaign like they always do. And it’s an outrage."
Plays 'em like a fiddle. Every. Single. Time. Because they WANT to be played. Letting someone strum their strings rather than going out and doing the hard work of gathering information and telling the truth is just too hard.
"What has only become obvious over the past decade (to those of us who haven’t professionally studied fascism in Europe in the 1930s) is that the buffoonery and the fascism go hand in hand. They are inseparable. The buffoonery doesn’t make the fascism less dangerous, and the fascism doesn’t make the buffoonery less ridiculous."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #media #MediaFail #McDonalds #fascism
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-trump-value-meal-extra-buffoonery
@shuttersparks I think that's a trademark of real evil, laughing at the death and destruction you're planning to visit on others.