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a fish named dog ✡️♾️FishNamedDog@mastodon.social
May 4, 2025, 7:50 PM
I wonder when the media will realize that pleasing a dictator, especially one so erratic, is a fool's errand -- look at the "reciprocal tariffs". the option is either to forever chase an unattainable approval, or to say "fuck that" and do their goddamn jobs: journalism.
Not hedging about things, not with qualifiers, except for something like "Trump, convicted felon who [list of things]..."
Just actual journalism that pisses off the government, like it should.
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a fish named dog ✡️♾️FishNamedDog@mastodon.social
May 4, 2025, 8:15 PM
IMO the depressing thing is not that the mainstream media with its corporate owners hedges but that the little ones do too. Like Mother Jones writing a headline called "How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa" (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/) instead of "RFK Jr Helped Kill Kids, Then Lied About It".
like if the liberal media with much less corporate funding is doing it, what hope does the mainstream media have?
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