Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project)

Text: THE MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY: PROJECT PRESENTS A SPECIAL: EVENT WITH SUE WILSON, MEDIA ACTION CENTER "HELP SAVE LOCAL TV NEWS - AT THE FCC AND IN OUR HOME TOWNS" Monday Aug 4, 8pm ET Hear how and why Americans need to prepare for consolidation in ownership of local TV stations and what we can do! FREE Via Zoom. REGISTER NOW http://tiny.cc/SAVETVNEWS

The Media and Democracy Project, @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social, is holding a virtual webinar with @suewilson.bsky.social next Monday, August 4 on the topic of improving local TV journalism.

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Help Save Local TV News — at the FCC and in our home towns · The Media and Democracy Project YOU can help improve local TV News in two ways. Ordinary people have had impact in their communities by expressing their voices publicly and by meeting with the stations. Citizens have also petitioned...

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@volts.wtf nails it! The essential choice of journalists in the era of strategic disinformation.

Powerful newsroom leaders such as AGSulzberger, JKahn, etc. deny and ignore this core issue& instead pursue their thirst for “neutrality” & “objectivity” which are excuses to not confront this reality.

explained to a zoomer today about what the new york times public editor job was. "what the hell that sounds like such a good idea" welp yeah

NYTimes. On Pivotal Day for His Bill, Trump Leaves Washington for 'Alligator Alcatraz' President Trump's visit to the migrant detention center in the Everglades was meant to highlight the issue that binds his party to him more than anything else — immigration.

"I said, 'Let the press join us on our walk, so they can see what's happening," Mr. Trump said. He walked through the facility, stopping to inspect chain-link fences and bunk beds packed tightly together. His top immigration officials, including Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, tagged along. The group kept insisting that lawmakers in Washington needed to pass the president's bill so that Alligator Alcatraz and other places like it could get the funding needed to operate. (The bill would steer about $175 billion toward immigration enforcement and border security.)

The facility's nickname and the president's tour of it on Tuesday were in keeping with so much of this administration's approach to immigration policy in that it was meant to inspire terror and publicity. The White House had a ball with the backdrop: Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, posted a selfie with her fellow West Wing aides Margo Martin and Dan Scavino. "En route to Alligator Alcatraz!" she wrote, adding an alligator emoji. The new deputy press secretary, Abigail Jackson, put out an A.I.-generated video of alligators wearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement hats while dancing to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby."

But there was something else about Alligator Alcatraz that seemed to intrigue him. Something beyond the political. Something elemental. "One thing I'll say about this land," he said as his visit wrapped up, "we'll be gone a million years, and this land is still going to be here. It's not going to be much different. You'll have the water moccasins, you'll have the alligators”.

Dear @nytimes.com journalists, editors and publisher AGSulzberger,

It *is* a #ConcentrationCamp

It is not:
- #AlligatorAlcatraz
- a detention facility
- an internment camp
- a prison
- a jail

NYT Standards Desk has aligned w/Murdoch’s Fox propaganda factory. Multiple references w/o quotes.
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Swamp Thing Drop the cutesy name and call the Everglades facility what it is: an American concentration camp.

Call this swamp thing what is is: an American concentration camp. Don't fall for the Trump propaganda AGAIN. Would Congress be on the verge of passing the ‘defund healthcare, don’t feed kids, double down on fossil fuels, make the rich richer bill’? My latest:

open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

MSM should understand they’ve now given both “sides” zero reason to ever again trust them to tell the truth. FOX already trained MAGAs not to ever believe them, & now they’ve just shown Dems & Indies that their reporting is for sale.

May they all lose everything they think they’re protecting.

With Supreme Court Ruling, Another Check on Trump’s Power Fades

The New York Times keeps writing stories about a fascist authoritarian trying to establish a dictatorship, but it carefully avoids using the words "fascist," "authoritarian" and "dictatorship."

Obliterating the truth It’s welcome news that so many news reporters are digging for answers on the Iran bombing and refusing to stick to Trump’s script

The Trump admin is now waging a full scale propaganda campaign to prop up the president’s questionable claims about Iran & denigrate journalists who report anything that contradicts Trump’s version of events. The good news: the press is fighting back. My latest:

open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

It’s so embarrassing and should be absolutely disqualifying that a major network morning news anchor attended the Bezos wedding

Nobody asks about the ingredients of the Kool-Aid

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The Information War Report is back—LIVE tonight at 8 PM EST! Milo & Brian explore how media is covering Trump’s threats to civil rights & global stability, plus why local journalism is key to democracy. Don’t miss it:
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The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

Question: “What should our audience be DOING to stay up-to-date & understand this current moment? [ICE raids, military in streets]“ @staceyabrams.com #AssemblyRequired link to https://pca.st/episode/903630b5-7c49-49f1-9827-5ffb7c5ccd79?t=2202.0

Q: “What should our audience be DOING to stay up-to-date & understand this current moment? [ICE raids, military in streets]“ @staceyabrams.com #AssemblyRequired pca.st/episode/9036...
A: “Local journalism” @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social
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Edited RollingStone To include text “Rupert Murdoch's” FOX NEWS IS DEMANDING WAR WITH IRAN. DONALD TRUMP IS LISTENING Trump's heavy consumption of Fox News content is increasing his appetite for direct military confrontation with Iran By NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ, ASAWIN SUEBSENG JUNE 18, 2025

#RupertMurdoch
#RupertMurdoch

All discussions of #FoxNews esp. #iran MUST include #RupertMurdoch.

If not, you are missing a central piece of the story. Fox is the agenda-setting infrastructure of the Murdochs.

Great story by
@swin24.bsky.social @nikkimcr.bsky.social but needs more Rupert!
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The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state Sanewashing didn't end with the 2024 campaign.

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically *because* he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

This is highly unethical for a news organization. @cnn.com promotes--w/out factchecking--a book for private gain by one of its "journalists." There is no independent reporting to confirm or refute the claims in the book. @markjacob.bsky.social @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social @fixmedianow.bsky.social

The Post wins Pulitzers for Trump rally shooting stories, editorial cartoons The Washington Post was recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and political cartoons by Ann Telnaes.

Congratulations to @anntelnaes.bsky.social on winning her SECOND Pulitzer prize today! We are honored to have featured her brilliant work in our film, and are still inspired by her courage and talent. 🙌 Since leaving the Post, you can see Ann's current work at anntelnaes.substack.com

the important things about the 2024 election were that one candidate had attempted a coup against the government, and his circle had issued a plan for how they would destroy America if he was elected. the political press corps did not see covering that as worth their while because policy bores them.

The latest from the minds that hold you can’t call someone racist unless they actually say they hate a marginalized group.

Don’t use the passive voice, kids. It makes it hard to identify the actors responsible for the actions that caused the outcomes.

The NYT coverage of Trump’s many bribery scandals is so fawning it makes me wonder if they bribed him too?

Or they just hate themselves and us too, I guess

The power of editorial cartoonists for democracy. A conversation w/Ann Telnaes · The Media and Democracy Project Ann Telnaes is a Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist and vocal advocate for press freedom. We will discuss with her the role and power of editorial cartoonists in democracies - and how we can suppor...

@anntelnaes.bsky.social resigned from @washingtonpost.com after her cartoon was rejected by editors. She said, “I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, 'Democracy dies in darkness.'"
Join @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Thu 5/29 8pET via Zoom tiny.cc/Telnaes

It’s impossible, inconceivable the the Times would ever write a headline that says “Trump blatantly violates ethical norms with deeply corrupt act” - because it would be seen as partisan - so everything, no matter how bad, gets downgraded to this absurd, plausibly deniable language

P.S. Multiple ironies in fearless @anntelnaes.bsky.social winning a Pulitzer for her body of work @washingtonpost.com not including the cartoon about—and spiked on behalf of—owner Jeff Bezos. And this on National Cartoonists Day! Join our discussion w/Telnaes Thurs 5/29 8pm ET/5pm PT tiny.cc/Telnaes

Digital Authoritarianism and the Fight for Democracy

Looking forward to this conversation with @rondeibert.bsky.social and @sheilacoronel.bsky.social about digital authoritarianism. At Columbia Journalism School next Wednesday--registration link below. knightcolumbia.org/events/digit...

"images of unchecked lawlessness" is exactly how Trump's propagandists got a lot of Americans to believe that there is a "crisis" of illegal immigration in the first place. Shown repeatedly, they distorted reality.

Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it.

Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!

Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

Brave, ethical journalists CAN stand up to fascist bullies.
So can their networks, @cbsnews.com
#stopthecoup #StopTrump #wearetheflood
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5 ways major media can seek redemption It’s getting late, but there’s still time to repair some of the damage.

We're facing a dictatorship-in-progress, partly because of years of major media misbehavior. My free Stop the Presses newsletter offers 5 ways that legacy news outlets can finally start to undo the damage by confronting the corruption and dishonesty of the Trump regime.