Oh, and Hanania was first on my radar because Rod Dreher linked to him. Hanania is not lying about his general readership being right-leaning.
Yes - that is why I value these kinds of writings, even though i disagree with him on race etc. This guy is no liberal, but he recognises conservatives have gone insane.
Let me explain the context, which many of y’all won’t get. The left blogosphere has lately been noting that TFNYT has been writing a lot of articles lately about trans issues. Those articles are written with the same level of journalistic as a bad Cletus safari. https://www.theonion.com/it-is-jour...tm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook
I gotta be honest…Sounders will tell you that he and I disagree on some aspects of trans issues, basically around sports. But I just can’t believe people think it’s really important. Like, are we awash in boys in transition dominating girls sports? Even when I don’t agree on the policy, I find it hard to give any real ********s because it’s just not a major issue.*. Same with drag queen story hour. I’m all for those, because nobody is being forced at gunpoint to take their kids, so who cares? Plus, it’s not like you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a drag Queen reading children’s stories, so even if those were a bad idea, why does anyone care? *I fully concede it’s a major issue to individual trans teens trying to find their way, it’s just that it’s not common enough to be creating this panic. Plus, I fully concede that (tying this back to the Onion) the panic isn’t really about Lia Thomas, it’s about creating an Other for fascists to hate. Just so nobody misunderstands my “not a major issue” comment.
And for every Lia Thomas there is at least one Barbra Banda (except the media, conservatives and some liberals don't obsess over that - evidenced by the absolute silence of people in these threads when she was prohibited from competing in the women's CAF championship even though she is a biological female).
There was a bunch of controversy about Caster Semenya, an intersex winner in women’s mid-distance sprinting. I know it isn’t directly a trans issue, but it just displays how not clear cut the issue is. And yeah, it is so few people, it really has no business being major news. The major news is the suicide rate amongst LGBTQ+. That’s the problem.
Caster Semenya was major news to her competitors and to track fans. She ain't nobody else's business.
Those 2 paragraphs were not meant to be a single continuous thought. I should have hit return a couple more times or quoted SD above paragraph 2.
Just quoting the good Dr's post again after the Dominion/Fox/Hannity/Tucker revelations There is rather a dissonance that no one is really surprised Fox is revealed as fake news, yet if CNN did this, the racists would have foam coming out of their mouth/anus/whatever ... The industry has been pretending for some time that Fox has a straight news op, and then it's prime time hosts but clearly there is no difference between tucker and RT, and the whole station is utterly corrupt. Now if the semi-fascists held their fake news beliefs honestly, they would hold up Fox as proof of the media being fake news. But you'll obviously never hear from greenwald and taibbi about this 1626430112936693761 is not a valid tweet id
It’s almost as if independent journalists like Glemm won’t call out the corruption at Fox because of his corporate paymasters
Media parroting conservative talking points: What? Medicare's prospects look better than they did before? I'll bet you didn't get that impression from the stories. All you read was that an aging population plus rising health costs will be a financial problem — but that wasn't news 3/— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 18, 2023 Finally: much of the media seems to be back to its old deficit-reporting mode (as Ezra noted back when), presenting anti-social-insurance editorializing — "Medicare and Social Security must be reformed" — as if it were straight reporting 8/ https://t.co/LOm06SOThA— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 18, 2023
It’s pretty clear the sheep watch - the most popular cable corporate fake news - the worlds most popular Podcaster big tech contrarian puppet - the top ranking political influencers on the Facebook algo - the world most followed oligarch with 1000x algo boost independent thinkers pretty much watch non popular uncool mainstream media these days!
If by fixing it you mean gutting it to its bones, I guess the GQP has a plan to fix SS and Medicare: That’s one way to put it lmao pic.twitter.com/kxGAOkoJ75— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 19, 2023
Yes, and "repair" something that isn't broken. If they are concerned with Social Security "going broke" that are two simple "fixes": Stop borrowing against it, with interest (that we pay for out with taxes) 2) Remove the ridiculously low "cap" on income limits.
Yeah, killing the libs sounds very bipartisan: Did Van Jones and Donald Trump Leave a Blueprint for Bipartisanship? - POLITICO https://t.co/qh6nOdNMmn— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) February 19, 2023
Politico is on a roll: America Is Sick of Presidents - POLITICO https://t.co/AarxEcTN79— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) February 20, 2023
So now we have the evidence Fox was just producing fanfic that not even Fox executives believed was real, will any conservatives have anything to say about this? I mean its the thing they alleged from the corporate media all along or are they truly sheep who want to engage in fantasy content?
While priding themselves on "independent" thought. I confronted a guy the other day who was parroting the idiot line that the U.S. is broke (error #1) because it spends so much money on foreign aid (error #2). When I confronted him, he told me that he wasn't beholden to any political parties, that he learned the truth from independent sources. Such is the vast majority of "alternative" reporting.
I also find it truly amazing that people claim to be independent because they listen to the worlds most popular Podcaster backed by big tech $$ hes literally the Celine Dion of podcasting!
This is a good intro to the US media ecosystem and discussion of the Fox Dominion scandal. Short version - the sheep won't break out of their programming because they will never hear about this, or will dismiss the information. https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/ The key to the study’s findings was that while media was polarized, the polarization was asymmetric. That is, although hyper partisan sites exist on the left, they did not draw the same attention as the traditional, professional media outlets closer to the center left. They also overlapped with and were connected to the mainstream outlets. “The Breitbart-centered wing, by contrast,” the authors note, “is farther from the mainstream set and lacks bridging nodes that draw attention and connect it to that mainstream.” What that means is that while someone who reads Huff Po or The Daily Beast is likely to also read more center-left outlets like The Washington Post or The New York Times, the audiences for Breitbart and Fox were completely untethered to more reliable center right sites like The Wall Street Journal. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, the authors found that both the number of sites and attention for those sites on the right increased as the sites became more partisan, whereas “on the left, there is no dramatic increase in either the number of sites or levels of attention they receive as we move to more clearly partisan sites.” In short, media attention on the right is both much farther from the center than its counterparts on the left AND insulated from traditional media. This point might seem obvious, but that fact has deeper implications for how these two media ecosystems operate more broadly. 1628397292083462144 is not a valid tweet id