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if anyone has information regarding the disappearance of grimace, we beg that you come forward

Yep. Solidarity across ALL arts or we've got nothing.

These decisions about what makes it on the front page and what doesn't, what gets push alerts and BREAKING NEWS chyrons, are made by individual human beings and it's worth examining why they select the stories they do and why they reject others bsky.app/profile/mile...

The media moved to the assassination attempt as blanket coverage in part to move the Trump campaign (who they're trying to help) off the loser "eating pets" story. The more the Trump campaign fails the more the media feels obligated to step in to set them on the right path bsky.app/profile/cmer...

I wonder what NPR's news updates were about 6 days after the debate Biden lost (according to polling) by the exact same amount that Trump lost his debate to Harris? bsky.app/profile/vikt...

CNN's front page was literally covered in it yesterday, a small box for Vance's appearence on CNN's own sunday show was the only other story above the fold. Youtube's "BREAKING NEWS" chumbox was exclusively "assassination attempt" stories last night (I basically never watch political videos on YT)

This function - to cover the front page in stories favorable to trump and bury unfavorable stories - is as or more important to the media's project of electing Trump as the tenor of the individual articles and stories is

Take note how much a "stopped at the gate" assassination attempt - the type that normally merits only a passing mention, as the u-haul attempt on Biden in 2023 did - has dominated the news and pushed discussion of Trump's failure in the debate and competency totally out of the news.

Compare the way Trump is treated to the way Howard Dean was treated.