When I chat w/Democrats, friends, to a person we all think Biden is doing a great job. He’s tackling every problem that comes across his desk with competence, serious consultation and consideration, thoughtfulness, virtually reconstructing the US government as we’ve known it all the years prior to FG. (Where’s the front page story about the FG wiping out the personnel at the State Dept eg and the impact those failures have on Biden’s agenda)? You’d think we are no longer in a worldwide pandemic nor experiencing the long term effects it will have on the globe for years. Biden is addressing those while the Rs fiddle in thrall to FG. If Biden should find a cure for cancer, which he is ALSO working on, the msm will bash him for taking too long to accomplish it.
The thing that gets me on this supply chain story that seemingly no news outlet will touch is that this has happened largely because American Corporations took their operations off-shore.
This is a direct result of the race to the bottom and the gutting of American manufacturing, and no one seems to think it is important enough to mention.
Why would fox faux news and the rest of the press tell anything like that to the American people. That American corporations cared more about the bottom line MONEY AND PROFIT over jobs taken from the people of America. So we know the press main job is to follow the lie and keep it going. Christmas WOW
The press is directly responsible for Biden's approval/disapproval ratings. Are journalists so incredibly out of touch? Did they not learn any lessons from their despicable behaviors in 2016?
On a lighter note, one of my brothers went to school with Paul Simon & the other with his brother Eddie. Belle Simon was one of my teachers and she treated us by bringing Paul & Art to serenade us after their first record (as Tom & Jerry, "Hey Schoolgirl") hit the airwaves.
We had four plus of the mainstream normalizing a historically unfit POTUS, giving him a pass because he’s a Republican; literally causing a few hundred thousand Covid deaths haven’t earned him criticism from the media. (If he was a Dem, coverage of Trump would be Carter 2.0.) Get a Democratic POTUS trying to get important things done, and said media work as hard as possible to tear him down and sabotage his efforts. This is not misinformation but disinformation doing real harm to the nation. Seriously.
More relevantly, query what supply chains would be like now if there had been a truly competent global response to the pandemic instead of the let’s say seriously lacking response we got.
A very smart move on the president’s part to announce the admin was working with Walmart, UPS, FedEx, and the teamsters to ease the bottleneck, and that this was just the beginning. The press has really reached peak laziness with this story—but I’m sure they will fall further because there is no bottom anymore.
Now would be an excellent time for the NYT etc to do a series on how the pandemic has altered our lives so far. But instead they choose these kind of dumb takes. It’s all political posturing—“eek, the sky is falling and it’s gonna be bad for Dems.”
The media is corporate owned so it is no surprise that the "stories" serve the corporate elite. Dems should have busted up media consolidate 20 years ago. I start all of my correspondence with politicians (can we STOP calling them leaders, for heaven sake?) begins with Job one is to bust up media consolidate. More crickets ... this country has an infestation of crickets.
Right? It was a ridiculous and impossible question. If the answer had been that Biden couldn’t guarantee no delays at Christmas, then he would have had a quote he could use to blame Democrats, and if the answer had been that they could guarantee no delays, and then delays happened despite their best efforts, then he would have had a quote to blame Democrats. It is truly disgusting the lengths Republicans will go to to politicize and exploit every situation, to the point of just making shit up and creating the controversy in the first place, while they ignore and do nothing about actual problems Americans actually care about.
Even if there are delays at Christmas, or goods Americans cannot get, I don’t see this narrative hurting Biden or Democrats in general. Americans are easily manipulated, that’s a fact, but this just is not the issue for them Republicans desperately want it to be. We have way bigger problems that matter more right now.
And we’re back to the War on Christmas… with a twist! JFC. Republican punditry and the American media in general are a joke. There is no way the rest of the world has any respect for either one of them. I think it’s time for a worldwide intervention, much like the world rallied against Trump. Since shame doesn’t seem to matter to these people at all, maybe being alienated and ridiculed would do the trick. I mean, this is just embarrassing.
I've been shunning for over 20 years with no t.v. and nearly 40 years of shunning cable. The public airways are lost to us as are most of the "commons" and the common good.
You and others have been calling them out for decades and media have only gotten worse. There's a line in the song "Plateau"* that goes, "Who needs action when you got words?" Our words are good. When will we take action? *Written by the Meat Puppets and covered by Nirvana in November 1993 (Unplugged). **Apologies, I have been watching "Squid Game" and I am becoming very aggressive lately 😬
You don't want Geffen, the raging egomaniac, liar, Judas who sells out anyone to put himself on top, and who is buddy-buddy with Trump. Someone who joined in the dogpiling of the Clintons and calling them liars, and who did everything he could to kneecap Hillary in 2016. You don't want him as an ally, because he'll sell you out too.
Thank you for recognizing why I dislike him so much. I want him to PAY. I know who he is. I know what he did. I want him to pay for what he said about Hillary Clinton in 2008. How "ambition isn't enough." I don't want his input - I want those billions he wastes hosting all the Democrats "in spirit." Show me the money. (Include Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Kennedy in this vindictive streak of mine. When I think of 2008, I think of these three recalcitrant, pompous asses.)
This Atlantic article by Mc Kay Coppins just blew me away. I’m stumped about where to place what he reports about into our posts on the press. Scary as all get out.
Having that big ole oil-slick off the coast of one of the largest ports isn't going to help. You don't want ships passing through it and spreading the oil further afield or aocean, in this case. We need to get off oil ASAP, now the digging and drilling for Line 3 up here in MN is springing leaks at the Headwaters of the Mississippi River - no help from our Dem Govnr nor President to stop this one. Guessing we and the Mississippi River are political pawns to support Alberta Canada. Meanwhile, water that serves the middle half of the country is at risk, along with the Great Lakes. All I hear is crickets. Time for all of our waterways to be given personhood so they can sue to protect our water. If not, the water wars will be worse than the supply chain problem.
While WWII was before I was born, I recall reading stories of unity, understanding, and personal accountability in working together & not against each other. Sad that so many have become so self-centered and willing to blame others for their own contributions to our current situation. Not only does the me generation continue, we can also add the blame generation to a large number of Americans.
When I chat w/Democrats, friends, to a person we all think Biden is doing a great job. He’s tackling every problem that comes across his desk with competence, serious consultation and consideration, thoughtfulness, virtually reconstructing the US government as we’ve known it all the years prior to FG. (Where’s the front page story about the FG wiping out the personnel at the State Dept eg and the impact those failures have on Biden’s agenda)? You’d think we are no longer in a worldwide pandemic nor experiencing the long term effects it will have on the globe for years. Biden is addressing those while the Rs fiddle in thrall to FG. If Biden should find a cure for cancer, which he is ALSO working on, the msm will bash him for taking too long to accomplish it.
all of the above. all context must be stripped for press to embrace doomsday narrative
The thing that gets me on this supply chain story that seemingly no news outlet will touch is that this has happened largely because American Corporations took their operations off-shore.
This is a direct result of the race to the bottom and the gutting of American manufacturing, and no one seems to think it is important enough to mention.
Good pt
Why would fox faux news and the rest of the press tell anything like that to the American people. That American corporations cared more about the bottom line MONEY AND PROFIT over jobs taken from the people of America. So we know the press main job is to follow the lie and keep it going. Christmas WOW
Media: "This is a nice little narrative we got going here. It would be a shame if some facts should happen to it."
Not the mainstream’s job to report on the failings of our masters.
The press is directly responsible for Biden's approval/disapproval ratings. Are journalists so incredibly out of touch? Did they not learn any lessons from their despicable behaviors in 2016?
On a lighter note, one of my brothers went to school with Paul Simon & the other with his brother Eddie. Belle Simon was one of my teachers and she treated us by bringing Paul & Art to serenade us after their first record (as Tom & Jerry, "Hey Schoolgirl") hit the airwaves.
Fab story!
How funny that I just heard "Hey Schoolgirl" on Sirius XM!
We had four plus of the mainstream normalizing a historically unfit POTUS, giving him a pass because he’s a Republican; literally causing a few hundred thousand Covid deaths haven’t earned him criticism from the media. (If he was a Dem, coverage of Trump would be Carter 2.0.) Get a Democratic POTUS trying to get important things done, and said media work as hard as possible to tear him down and sabotage his efforts. This is not misinformation but disinformation doing real harm to the nation. Seriously.
More relevantly, query what supply chains would be like now if there had been a truly competent global response to the pandemic instead of the let’s say seriously lacking response we got.
All of this. Well said.
Thanks!
A very smart move on the president’s part to announce the admin was working with Walmart, UPS, FedEx, and the teamsters to ease the bottleneck, and that this was just the beginning. The press has really reached peak laziness with this story—but I’m sure they will fall further because there is no bottom anymore.
Now would be an excellent time for the NYT etc to do a series on how the pandemic has altered our lives so far. But instead they choose these kind of dumb takes. It’s all political posturing—“eek, the sky is falling and it’s gonna be bad for Dems.”
the media double standard for Dems is quite stark
The media is corporate owned so it is no surprise that the "stories" serve the corporate elite. Dems should have busted up media consolidate 20 years ago. I start all of my correspondence with politicians (can we STOP calling them leaders, for heaven sake?) begins with Job one is to bust up media consolidate. More crickets ... this country has an infestation of crickets.
Ed O'Keefe - the proud recipient of the CTDQ - the Chuck Todd Dumbest Question award.
yeah, O’Keefe is not good
Right? It was a ridiculous and impossible question. If the answer had been that Biden couldn’t guarantee no delays at Christmas, then he would have had a quote he could use to blame Democrats, and if the answer had been that they could guarantee no delays, and then delays happened despite their best efforts, then he would have had a quote to blame Democrats. It is truly disgusting the lengths Republicans will go to to politicize and exploit every situation, to the point of just making shit up and creating the controversy in the first place, while they ignore and do nothing about actual problems Americans actually care about.
Even if there are delays at Christmas, or goods Americans cannot get, I don’t see this narrative hurting Biden or Democrats in general. Americans are easily manipulated, that’s a fact, but this just is not the issue for them Republicans desperately want it to be. We have way bigger problems that matter more right now.
Meanwhile it's DeJoy who is not only sabotaging the holiday mail delivery. He's also sabotaging the mail in ballots for the elections in Virginia.
And we’re back to the War on Christmas… with a twist! JFC. Republican punditry and the American media in general are a joke. There is no way the rest of the world has any respect for either one of them. I think it’s time for a worldwide intervention, much like the world rallied against Trump. Since shame doesn’t seem to matter to these people at all, maybe being alienated and ridiculed would do the trick. I mean, this is just embarrassing.
Charlie Pierce suggested ‘shunning’ on Stephanie Miller today. According to Charlie it’s an old Irish tradition that worked quite well.
Wouldn’t it be grand? My God, I love the Irish!
I've been shunning for over 20 years with no t.v. and nearly 40 years of shunning cable. The public airways are lost to us as are most of the "commons" and the common good.
We complain, complain about the media, and for good reason . Does anyone out there have ideas of what we can DO about them?
not give up;) by that I mean, keep up the pressure. Keep calling them out
You and others have been calling them out for decades and media have only gotten worse. There's a line in the song "Plateau"* that goes, "Who needs action when you got words?" Our words are good. When will we take action? *Written by the Meat Puppets and covered by Nirvana in November 1993 (Unplugged). **Apologies, I have been watching "Squid Game" and I am becoming very aggressive lately 😬
You do it well. But what is the best way for us to do it?
I want to buy the media. Literally. I've tasked David Geffen with this endeavor but he has not responded.
You don't want Geffen, the raging egomaniac, liar, Judas who sells out anyone to put himself on top, and who is buddy-buddy with Trump. Someone who joined in the dogpiling of the Clintons and calling them liars, and who did everything he could to kneecap Hillary in 2016. You don't want him as an ally, because he'll sell you out too.
Thank you for recognizing why I dislike him so much. I want him to PAY. I know who he is. I know what he did. I want him to pay for what he said about Hillary Clinton in 2008. How "ambition isn't enough." I don't want his input - I want those billions he wastes hosting all the Democrats "in spirit." Show me the money. (Include Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Kennedy in this vindictive streak of mine. When I think of 2008, I think of these three recalcitrant, pompous asses.)
I am so tired of this immature democracy. The press, the people, the whole enchilada - it is as if we have been stuck in adolescence for 245 years.
It can be exhausting, for sure
I'd say kindergarten - fighting over perceived "toys." Maybe 3rd grade, the fights were meaner at that age.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/alden-global-capital-killing-americas-newspapers/620171/
This Atlantic article by Mc Kay Coppins just blew me away. I’m stumped about where to place what he reports about into our posts on the press. Scary as all get out.
Here’s hoping msm reads PressRun EVERYDAY. ‘Mirror mirror on the wall ......’
Having that big ole oil-slick off the coast of one of the largest ports isn't going to help. You don't want ships passing through it and spreading the oil further afield or aocean, in this case. We need to get off oil ASAP, now the digging and drilling for Line 3 up here in MN is springing leaks at the Headwaters of the Mississippi River - no help from our Dem Govnr nor President to stop this one. Guessing we and the Mississippi River are political pawns to support Alberta Canada. Meanwhile, water that serves the middle half of the country is at risk, along with the Great Lakes. All I hear is crickets. Time for all of our waterways to be given personhood so they can sue to protect our water. If not, the water wars will be worse than the supply chain problem.
While WWII was before I was born, I recall reading stories of unity, understanding, and personal accountability in working together & not against each other. Sad that so many have become so self-centered and willing to blame others for their own contributions to our current situation. Not only does the me generation continue, we can also add the blame generation to a large number of Americans.