Wow. That rambling, virtually unintelligible, statement on child care from Trump indicates that his mind just ricochets around like a pinball among his favorite topics. And the media was focused on Biden’s declining mental acuity? There is a real double standard in the media, even the main-stream media, when it comes to Trump and any other Democratic candidate. On last Friday’s edition of Washington Week in Review with the Atlantic on PBS, near the end of the show, the roundtable of journalists touched on the topic of a double standard being applied to Trump and now VP Harris. But they just said: “Yes, we do this, and here’s an example”, and then the show ended with no effort suggest that this needs to change, or how to change it. I’m losing confidence even in the news sources I have come to respect over the years.
Don, that's exactly what has been going on the so-called mass media be it NYT, CNN, WaPo, or even NPR totally sanitize or ignore Trump's gaffs and incoherent babbling!
I cancelled my NYT subscription after they wrote hit piece after hit piece about Biden's mental acuity largely based on one bad debate performance. The 2 weeks following the debate there were 190+ opinion pieces and other articles in the NYT alone sowing doubt about Biden being up to the task.
However, as it becomes obvious that Trump is highly demented and unable to even read a teleprompter almost nothing on Trump's incoherent train of thought speeches, nasty, misogynist insults, and overall incompetence as pointed out in HCR's piece.
It is shameful and shocking to see how these billionaires, who own the media actively help propping up a convicted felon as candidate for President of the United States because they stand to benefit financially from the outcome of the election of a criminal, who will try to establish a religious dictatorship so he doesn't have to go to jail.
Everyone cancel your subscriptions to these biased media outlets, including X and vote Blue all down ballot!
Olaf, I agree with you and definitely share the same frustrations regarding what feels to me like unbalanced treatment in the media of Trump compared to Biden and now Harris. However, I will keep my subscription to the NYT. I realize you are saying we should all cancel our subscriptions as a protest and maybe they will change their ways, but I’m skeptical of that, and I don’t want to cut myself off from one of the better, though far from perfect, news sources. I’m savvy enough to take in news from a variety of sources and form what I think is a realistic view of the world. It is important to do this to be a good citizen and an informed voter. I am concerned, though, about the vast majority of Americans that only have time for sound bites and social media. News sources can shape public opinion - thus, the effectiveness of propaganda. Still, I have to put my faith in people and assume that enough of them will cut through the media fog to find clarity. Certainly, you are one who is able to do this. There must be many others.
Olaf saying he cancelled his subscription is NOT suggesting we all do the same. Hundred of people on Heather's site have also said they have cancelled. It's a free country still, do as you please. You are correct that unfortunately most Americans just pick up quick 90 second sound bites on social media, pass it on and the conspiracies spread.
Olaf I cancelled by NYT's and WaPo as well when they clearly were looking for click-bait, leaning to the right. Covering Biden's age rather than the entire "debate" (which wasn't a debate in any form) of lies from Trump. The CEO of NYT is a Trump donor, as is the CEO of: CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC--all donors. WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos and the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch. When they return to actual news coverage and journalism, perhaps I will return. I've learned where to find trust facts: Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce White Vance (Civil Discourse), Marc Elias (Democracy Docket), Meidas Touch/Legal AF and Brian Tyler Cohen get most of my attention.
What would Trump even know about childcare? He clearly knows nothing about the concerns of families in this country. He only knows about the concerns of billionaires. So that is what he talked about. His interests.
"But the memorable moment came when he answered a question about what specific legislation he planned to propose to deal with the crisis in child care by spewing an incoherent string of words that sounded like a 4th grader giving a book report of a book he didn't read. He clearly had no idea about child care and so he reverted to the only economic policy he's ever known: tariffs, the cure-all for every economic ill."
They also note how the main-stream media constantly covers for his many disqualifying statements... Great article! If your thinking about switching to an alternative to the biased main-stream news ...
Wow. That rambling, virtually unintelligible, statement on child care from Trump indicates that his mind just ricochets around like a pinball among his favorite topics. And the media was focused on Biden’s declining mental acuity? There is a real double standard in the media, even the main-stream media, when it comes to Trump and any other Democratic candidate. On last Friday’s edition of Washington Week in Review with the Atlantic on PBS, near the end of the show, the roundtable of journalists touched on the topic of a double standard being applied to Trump and now VP Harris. But they just said: “Yes, we do this, and here’s an example”, and then the show ended with no effort suggest that this needs to change, or how to change it. I’m losing confidence even in the news sources I have come to respect over the years.
Don, that's exactly what has been going on the so-called mass media be it NYT, CNN, WaPo, or even NPR totally sanitize or ignore Trump's gaffs and incoherent babbling!
I cancelled my NYT subscription after they wrote hit piece after hit piece about Biden's mental acuity largely based on one bad debate performance. The 2 weeks following the debate there were 190+ opinion pieces and other articles in the NYT alone sowing doubt about Biden being up to the task.
However, as it becomes obvious that Trump is highly demented and unable to even read a teleprompter almost nothing on Trump's incoherent train of thought speeches, nasty, misogynist insults, and overall incompetence as pointed out in HCR's piece.
It is shameful and shocking to see how these billionaires, who own the media actively help propping up a convicted felon as candidate for President of the United States because they stand to benefit financially from the outcome of the election of a criminal, who will try to establish a religious dictatorship so he doesn't have to go to jail.
Everyone cancel your subscriptions to these biased media outlets, including X and vote Blue all down ballot!
Olaf, I agree with you and definitely share the same frustrations regarding what feels to me like unbalanced treatment in the media of Trump compared to Biden and now Harris. However, I will keep my subscription to the NYT. I realize you are saying we should all cancel our subscriptions as a protest and maybe they will change their ways, but I’m skeptical of that, and I don’t want to cut myself off from one of the better, though far from perfect, news sources. I’m savvy enough to take in news from a variety of sources and form what I think is a realistic view of the world. It is important to do this to be a good citizen and an informed voter. I am concerned, though, about the vast majority of Americans that only have time for sound bites and social media. News sources can shape public opinion - thus, the effectiveness of propaganda. Still, I have to put my faith in people and assume that enough of them will cut through the media fog to find clarity. Certainly, you are one who is able to do this. There must be many others.
Olaf saying he cancelled his subscription is NOT suggesting we all do the same. Hundred of people on Heather's site have also said they have cancelled. It's a free country still, do as you please. You are correct that unfortunately most Americans just pick up quick 90 second sound bites on social media, pass it on and the conspiracies spread.
Olaf I cancelled by NYT's and WaPo as well when they clearly were looking for click-bait, leaning to the right. Covering Biden's age rather than the entire "debate" (which wasn't a debate in any form) of lies from Trump. The CEO of NYT is a Trump donor, as is the CEO of: CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC--all donors. WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos and the Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch. When they return to actual news coverage and journalism, perhaps I will return. I've learned where to find trust facts: Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce White Vance (Civil Discourse), Marc Elias (Democracy Docket), Meidas Touch/Legal AF and Brian Tyler Cohen get most of my attention.
What would Trump even know about childcare? He clearly knows nothing about the concerns of families in this country. He only knows about the concerns of billionaires. So that is what he talked about. His interests.
Actually, I don’t recall trump ever talking about childcare. The words
coming from his mouth seemed
strange…but, even crazier, his inability to complete a simple 3 or 4 word sentence containing 1 or 2
syllable words.
Here's what salon.com writes (https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/donald-incoherence-makes-the-medias-double-standard-hard-to-hide/) about the disasterous response HCR cited:
"But the memorable moment came when he answered a question about what specific legislation he planned to propose to deal with the crisis in child care by spewing an incoherent string of words that sounded like a 4th grader giving a book report of a book he didn't read. He clearly had no idea about child care and so he reverted to the only economic policy he's ever known: tariffs, the cure-all for every economic ill."
They also note how the main-stream media constantly covers for his many disqualifying statements... Great article! If your thinking about switching to an alternative to the biased main-stream news ...