"What’s been really striking this year is that while traditionally deep distrust of the mainstream press has long been the province of right-wing Republicans, now it’s liberals who once cheered for the media to do better who seem to be giving up on them."
~ Will Bunch
"What I saw at the 2024 DNC inflamed my hatred of the ‘media elite.' Our industry is once again doing everything it can to fail to meet the enormity of this moment."
~ Asawin Suebsang
"Much of what I witnessed and heard about during my time in Chicago reinforced my preexisting beliefs that far too many so-called elite members of my profession — national political media scribes who fancy themselves as speaking truth to power, but more often just speak words to financially destructive Google algorithms — are mollycoddled hogs who are doing everything they can to fail to meet the enormity of this moment."
"So much of doing this job, journalism, the right way hinges only on having some sense of moral clarity and not being an asshole to people who clearly don’t deserve it. It is a wonder of the modern world how many in the pampered ranks of this profession can only find it within themselves to publicly flunk this 101-level test, again and again."
Michele Hornish provides a rundown of what's happening after Harris became the Democratic candidate: a huge surge in voter registration, especially among younger Black and Hispanic women, and unprecedented numbers of volunteers to work with the campaign. Then she writes,
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-politics-the-first
"Let’s not forget all of the Sky Is Falling coverage before the Harris campaign launched that bemoaned the Democrats’ lack of enthusiasm and energy. Every article reminded us that this enthusiasm gap was a sure sign that Democrats would lose in November.
Now Democrats have a 14 point enthusiasm advantage. We’re filling stadiums and zoom rooms and phone banks.
But do go on about how Joy is Not a Strategy."
She's speaking to New York Times with the last remark.
@wdlindsy Who would have thought that slapping a new coat of paint on the same shitty policies would be so popular?
It's like the inmates celebrating a new crop of guards at GitMo.
@grumble209 @wdlindsy Which Biden policies are shitty?
@spradlig @wdlindsy I can't provide a complete list, but here's a start:
- most of the foreign policy, particularly the overseas troop deployments to Iraq/Syria, and Africa
- the arms sales and gifts to Israel to genocide Palestine
- the ridiculous "CHIPS" act that gives billions to semiconductor companies that are so profitable they spend billions on dividends and/or stock buy backs
- the ridiculous response to the Houthis; it cost us hundreds of millions, and hasn't deterred anything
- GitMo is still holding prisoners
@grumble209 @wdlindsy
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Thanks. Most of those do indeed strike me as “shitty” (I’d have to read up on the CHIPS act). But you appear to have chosen Biden’s worst policies, and ignored the good ones, which are numerous.
@spradlig @wdlindsy I never meant to imply that everything Biden does is bad, only that the DNC has changed candidates, but not policies.
Why, it's almost like the policies aren't set by candidates at all, but by donors. Which is what you'd expect in a representative plutocracy.