Post Av4b4XRoJO7ziC29ey by LPerry2@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Av4aikp9th40pNZDzE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T02:02:44Z
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"... we’ve been saying over and over and over again that the most important thing is telling the truth. As Mike Brock keeps saying, 'two plus two equals four' and you can’t let them get away with telling you otherwise.This isn’t just about getting the facts straight for their own sake. When media coverage systematically misrepresents who is initiating violence and who is responding to it, it provides cover for further escalation.@mmasnick, 2025 https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/lets-be-clear-the-rioting-in-la-is-by-the-cops-not-the-protestors/
(DIR) Post #Av4b4XRoJO7ziC29ey by LPerry2@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T01:11:24Z
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@servelan Not exactly the first time that's happened.
(DIR) Post #Av4b4YhndQVnc4WRDk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T02:06:36Z
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@LPerry2 > Not exactly the first time that's happenedNotable examples I'm reminded of include the protests against corporate globalisation in late 90s/ early noughties, and the public square occupation movements of the early 2010s. I don't remember judges being arrested at airports though, or senators at press conferences. What's happening is not new in some ways, but unprecedented in others.@servelan
(DIR) Post #Av4bPJeQnlWx0JqQ9Q by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T02:10:26Z
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"We have to be clear on what ground truth is, and that requires that the media stop accepting propagandist framing."@mmasnick, 2025https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/lets-be-clear-the-rioting-in-la-is-by-the-cops-not-the-protestors/For the last few years, legacy news media have been singing songs of their great social importance as fact-checking institutions that surface important information in a timely. Here's their chance to prove it. So far they've been less than impressive.#NewsMedia #journalism #ProtestReporting
(DIR) Post #Av4bUEal2UoklFTIGm by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T02:10:41Z
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"We have to be clear on what ground truth is, and that requires that the media stop accepting propagandist framing."@mmasnick, 2025https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/lets-be-clear-the-rioting-in-la-is-by-the-cops-not-the-protestors/For the last few years, legacy news media have been singing songs of their great social importance as fact-checking institutions that surface important information in a timely. Here's their chance to prove it. So far they've been less than impressive.#NewsMedia #journalism #ProtestReporting
(DIR) Post #Av4d4lUcI8lZBGa9L6 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T02:29:06Z
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I was listening to The Rest is Politics the other day, and chuckled at their claim that comparing Orange Stalin's regime to Xi Jinping's is "false equivalence"!https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/132-former-head-of-mi6-russia-china-and-trump-sir-alex-younger/What's happening in LA now is disturbingly similar to what was happening in Hong Kong before the pandemic. The idea that the US remains a functioning democracy, while judges and state senators are being arrested to stop them doing their job, is wishful self-delusion.#democracy