This whole "don't say who is actually doing the bad stuff, because it's all one political party" shit is not actually an adherence to any journalistic norms. It's brand new practice to journalism to not say who is doing what in your headlines, a real deviation from the past, solely out of fear.
As a semi-prominent American of somewhat Italian ancestry, I was once asked if I wanted to participate in the NYC Columbus Day parade. I said I would be happy to as long as they knew that I would talk about what a shit person he was to every reporter around. Turns out I wasn't in the parade.
nobody really, truly believes that it can happen here until it does and then, well, the human mind is a remarkably adaptable thing, and what was once unthinkable eventually becomes the new normal unless enough of us push back - and even then, there's no going back to the way things were
I just think it's weird that so many of the people who said they would have gone back in time to kill baby Hitler are now voting for our version of him.
seems like a big story that the former president's ex-chairman of the joint chief's of staff thinks he's a fascist www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023
You don’t need a traumatic or tragic story to deserve abortion care.
I could write a whole thing but it really boils down to this: fuck these fucking people
"Bob Woodward revealed weeks before the election that Trump secretly sent Russia's dictator Covid tests while US doctors faced a shortage" feels like it might be the kind of thing the media would run with, because it has the precise narrative structure of an old-timey scandal.
GOP: We oppose RELATIVISM, POSTMODERNISM, and REVISIONIST HISTORY. We are for TRUTH, FACTS, and OBJECTIVITY. Literally Anyone: Who won the 2020 US Presidential Election? GOP: Questions like this are fundamentally undecidable; indeed, it is impossible to meaningfully ask them. As Lyotard showed, th