Daniel Gilmore: If you haven’t read this thread by @volts.wtf over on Twitter, please do. I work in media studies. I spend a lot of time thinking about politics & media in particular. David is 100% right that its a fools game to try & chase the approval of our news media institutions as a Dem. x.com/drvolts/stat...

If you haven’t read this thread by @volts.wtf over on Twitter, please do. I work in media studies. I spend a lot of time thinking about politics & media in particular. David is 100% right that its a fools game to try & chase the approval of our news media institutions as a Dem. x.com/drvolts/stat...

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Giving into the blood that they are screaming for now will not stop them, it will only reinforce their narrative & encourage them to go deeper. They will immediately turn on Harris and implicate her in a “coverup” of Biden’s health, wholly of their own design.

I am begging tuned in but anxious Dems/liberals to understand something about news media: it does matter, but the ppl specifically that you are worried about it mattering with—avg, undecided voters—are not sitting at home waiting dutifully to have their brains filled up by CNN, the NYT, Axios etc.

That is just not who the major consumers of those sorts of news orgs are and, broadly, our media landscape is no longer one (if it ever was) of “avg ppl are consuming the same news sources as the smarts are, just understanding it less”

In a convenient form: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18093...

Thread by @drvolts on Thread Reader Appthreadreaderapp.com @drvolts: I haven't written much about politics since the debate, mainly because I'm so overwhelmed by disgust & contempt toward this country's media & commentariat that it has rendered me inarticulat...

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Thread by @drvolts on Thread Reader Appweb.archive.org @drvolts: I haven't written much about politics since the debate, mainly because I'm so overwhelmed by disgust & contempt toward this country's media & commentariat that it has rendered me inarticulat...

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The MSM’s idea of balance is 50% shitting on Democrats and 50% ignoring Republicans because the rich people in control profit from GOP policies.

Yellow journalism is alive and well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_...

Yellow journalism - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

got a way to view this that isn’t on twitter? some of us don’t want to support the nazi den

I’ll screenshot it

Thanks!

this is great stuff

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