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Bravo to all those reporters rejecting this new opaque authoritarian!
Here's the second most important piece of into in the article:
Only the conservative One America News Network signed on.
Does anyone hear the propaganda if there is no one there to listen? The republicans are really fucking themselves on this one.
Seems like they're just bypassing the press and putting out their own propaganda via social media. Hell, Trump has his own platform he had the balls to call "Truth Social".
Isn’t it just a trash old fork of Mastodon? Would certainly make the public Bondi DM make sense.
Fascist hurt itself in confusion.
It's not very effective unfortunately.
Don't forget the maga influencers as well
Not explaining how this is a hallmark of authoritarian rule, but quoting the bullshit reasons the regime pretends to believe in is still a failing of the duty of the press.
There is essentially no legitimate mainstream media anymore. They've all been acquired by some late stage cap oligarch, so anything they print will be filtered through the lens of disseminating propaganda and manufacturing content on their behalf.
Edit: I'm in no way advocating that "alternative" news is less bias or more trustworthy. The point is that you can't inherently trust ANY media by brand name recognition, the same way that you can no longer trust that brand name equals quality in general; that only applied when there was actual competition instead of a handful of corporations owning the majority of every industry, all sharing the same board of directors, reporting to the same few hundred oligarchs.
Ap news is solid. Their reporting is consistently high quality. With breaking news they dont try and report all the unverified information sticking close to what is actually known.
You are never going to get news that isnt filtered through someone's lens. Alternative news is 1000x worse when it comes to disseminating propaganda.
They did not include which orgs complied with the regime, or draw parallels to the "ministry of truth" authoritarian precedent that this action represents. Look at what they choose to omit.
I never said alternative media is more trustworthy or less bias.
They did not include which orgs complied with the regime...
From the article in the OP:
Only the conservative One America News Network signed on. Its management likely believes it will have greater access to Trump administration officials by showing its support, Gabrielle Cuccia, a former Pentagon reporter who was fired by OANN earlier this year for writing an online column criticizing Hegseth’s media policies, told the AP in an interview.
They didn't? It sure seems like they did to me.
APnews isnt there to list orgs that comply or draw parallels. Theyre a news site they tell you what's happening you read that and if you want to go further you can.There are plenty of other sites that will do that.
It's called due diligence, journalistic integrity, and reporting the facts.
"They're a news site." isn't an excuse for not covering all the facts of the story, in fact, that's the exact reason they're being held with scrutiny. It is their job to provide as much information as possible. That's quite literally what news reporting is for.
I want to insult you because tbh your comment is really fucking dumb.
Due diligence is checking your facts and sources are correct. Journalistic integrity is reporting on the truth even when its disadvantageous. None of those are broken by AP. They covered all the facts of the story.
If they didn't list all of the orgs that complied (which they did anyway), they would not have been covering all of the facts of the story.
If you can't wrap your head around that simple concept, you are someone that isn't worth engaging with.
My comment that's older than their shows that they did name the one org that complied. I agree, the comment above is stupid, but the AP did do what you want. The person above just lied (through ignorance or on purpose) and said they didn't.
Yeah, I actually already knew that, I wasn't the OP for this comment chain, I just get annoyed when people say stupid shit.
I mean, NPR?
Have you ever seen NPR or PBS refer to the thousands of Palestinian civilians kidnapped and indefinitely detained, without charges or trial, as "hostages"? Because I haven't. They are always "prisoners".
Sadly, I think it's a win-win for the fascists.
The press only had a presence in the pentagon because it was advantageous to have them there. The media isn't disappearing just because they are no longer given easy access. They will just have less of a relationship with the department of defense. Yes, it's bad for the journalists, but it's worse for the administration. Those reporters had been there so that they could spread the official talking points. Letting reporters become dependent on their easy access and maintaining a reasonable working relationship makes it a lot easier to seed stories, to ask for small favors and to give off the record comments that shape narratives. Ol' Whiskeyleaks is failing at coercion and in the process is sacrificing influence. That he doesn't understand this is amazing considering he was (theoretically) a journalist until less than a year ago.
As with so many things, they are destroying what their predecessors spent the last century building by being both malicious and incompetent.
As the guy said on NPR, people have phones. The reporters can still do their jobs without being physically present in the building.
I don't see this as a win as I'm pretty sure they wanted less attention and questioning of their activities. It's easier for them to blame the press for walking than to put up restrictions that make it look like they're hiding things.
A few months ago I would accuse Americans here of being a bit hysterical but not any more.
A lot of us are panicking because the future is crystal clear and we just cannot understand how so many people around us as being all business as usual.
A friend of mine was getting tired of my “conspiracies,” so I agreed to write them down with the a date and when one of them happened I’d tell them. I’ve got pages of check marked items. “Believe me yet?” I say. 😡
Any chance you could share some version of this list? For science
I’ll see about putting it together
The big one on the list is martial law by June.
I am also eyeballing the 401(k) system. I think within the year a significant number of people will start pulling out of it to live. I’m not sure if it will be enough to do any permanent damage, but it will screw over a ton of people… Who are not gonna forget, or recover
inb4 trump says he fired them all or some stupid shit.
I wonder if "FUCK YOU AND YOUR POLICIES" was written on any badges. Using a Sharpie, of course.
Honestly, this seems like a no-brainer. Having Pentagon press access means you get to break stories sooner, but if your only reporting what the Pentagon gives you, you’re basically just getting press releases a little earlier. That's not worth giving up you're ability to get an exclusive story from a leak, and there's always someone who wants to leak something. I'm sure that even these journalists' cooperate overlords see agreeing to this as a bad business decision.
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