• kingofras@lemmy.world
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    I know this is a socialist idea

    But what if

    I know this will sound crazy

    All editors publish an Epstein story in the same week.

    Like actual solidarity between journalists as comrades. Because this isn’t just about reporting on politics. Its about defending what little you have left of a country from a deranged lunatic that will not stop until we stop him or he’s dead.

    Let’s see which country he’ll nuke then.

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    Honestly, news organizations should just double down on criticizing Trump. What is he gonna do? Ban them all until he sits there alone with Fox News and a couple of right-wing bloggers? If that happens, and Fox News is suddenly the most reputable news organization in the room, I conjecture that even they would eventually clash with Trump over something, at which point even the dumbest of his supporters will have to realize that the problem isn’t the news organizations but Trump’s pathetic little ego.

    Edit: I may be underestimating how dumb some of his supporters are, but here goes my half-baked take.

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        While true it’s largely irrelevant, just like how a handful of cooperations own most food companies. Most folks don’t know that so the perception isn’t that Newscorp was fucked over but the WSJ was fucked over. When it comes to so called strongmen like Trump and more specifically his cult of personality the perception of the situation is all that matters.

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    That’s not fear, that’s vindictive authoritarian asshole behavior. Should also bring them to court for first amendment violations, I thought you couldn’t suffer punishment from the government over your speech?

    … unless it’s speaking positive about Palestine of course. Then it’s straight to the gulags…

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    The ouroboros of social media garbage being thrown at me here would be annoying even if I wasn’t actively trying to filter out US news from my feeds.