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(DIR) Post #AjGPrC5Ed4HG4114We by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-06-24T20:08:30Z
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Malone is not the owner of CNN. He has about a 1% stake in the parent company. But he did a lot to engineer the WBD merger, and with a board seat and his background as a media exec, he drives a lot of strategy at CNN.
(DIR) Post #AjGPrCiEI5TA0xGDJ2 by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-06-24T20:08:36Z
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For example it's been reported that Malone has "deep and longstanding ties" with David Zaslav, the CEO of WBD. https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
(DIR) Post #AjGPrDMdrpnO2IAUIS by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-06-24T20:08:41Z
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Zaslav and his handpicked CEO Chris Licht were reportedly involved in pushing out John Harwood and canceling Brian Stelter's show.And Kaitlan Collins, who they hired, came from a background at the Anschutz DC Examiner and Koch-funded Daily Caller.https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2022/09/02/john-harwood-exits-cnn-amid-changes-news-channel/7978125001/
(DIR) Post #AjGPrDSJWkKgJsp18a by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-06-24T20:08:46Z
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In sum: CNN has been pushed to the right by its board members and executives.And so it's really bad that CNN gets to control this extremely consequential debate./endhere's the NYT piece:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/business/media/cnn-presidential-debate.html
(DIR) Post #Al4BPsF4OS1Q9Cq7zU by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:36:35Z
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Terrible piece in the NYT today. It is carefully calibrated propaganda to divide the Democratic coalition on Israel. Your older relatives will read this and be swayed. Here’s a quick breakdown of how it works: 🧵 https://archive.ph/z70lH
(DIR) Post #Al4BPssm0pmU8LPpsO by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:36:44Z
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It’s by James Kirchick, neocon and rightwinger, former writer for DC Examiner and the Spectator.Yet NYT Opinion — so broken! — lists only his book on gay DC. Most NYT readers won’t know his history and will code his bio as “liberal.” That’s BS and it’s bad and it’s on NYT. /2
(DIR) Post #Al4BPtNy8qjbh60kV6 by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:36:51Z
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Let’s start w/ this line: “it’s disingenuous to argue race and gender played no role in her advancement.”Horsesh*t. It is disingenuous to argue Kirchick’s ideological choices played no role in his advancement! He’s gotten ahead in life because he says things rightwingers like.
(DIR) Post #Al4BPu3ndKC9mpa9hY by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:36:56Z
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We shouldn’t let rightwingers try to play the bias card without talking about the elephant in the room — how conservatives get ahead in life due to the sluice of billionaires money into GOP media, law, and thinktanks.
(DIR) Post #Al4BPxSiz6uoL0GbT6 by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:37:02Z
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The piece is repeatedly disingenuous. Kirchick quotes ppl saying “antisemitism is marbled into the party” then says— “none of this is saying the party is antisemitic.” What?The purpose, of course, is to repeat “antisemitism” juxtaposed with “Democratic” to influence people.
(DIR) Post #Al4BPz4gzQsdL32RHs by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:37:08Z
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Kirchick uses sleight of hand to imply that Shapiro lost out because he was Jewish — then says “to be sure, he was reported to clash with Harris in his interview” (paraphrase).The interview went poorly, but Kirchick has an agenda to push!!
(DIR) Post #Al4BQ2qexY232gVHyC by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:37:15Z
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More sleight of hand here. Kirchick’s ideological allies want to fuse support of Israel with being an American Jew — and you can see that in this section.He quotes a comment on “deep” commitment to Israel then just discards it: “deep or otherwise” - and then pivots to “Jewish”.
(DIR) Post #Al4BQ7p4SsjSTCnagi by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:37:20Z
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The end of the piece uses the right’s usual propaganda method of using liberals’ values against them: calling this an issue of diversity and DEI and invoking “identity.” We shouldn’t be fooled.But NYT Opinion should be embarrassed.
(DIR) Post #Al4BQ9OCdkQdKSFA5Q by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:37:27Z
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Last, Kirchick tries a different tack to divide American Jews on support for Israel and its rightwing government.He loads up a future critique, asking whether support for Israel will be booed at the convention.Spoiler: it will. But the Israeli government deserves it.
(DIR) Post #Al4BQBOHCRfxXGIFTk by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-08-17T14:37:32Z
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We have to do everything we can to reject antisemitism — reject holding the crimes of the Israeli government against American Jews. No Jewish person shd feel unsafe on campuses.But we cannot overlook the fact that this rightwing Israeli govt has committed horrible crimes.
(DIR) Post #Am0ZSe5V8sR9BYtW2y by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-09-14T22:31:45Z
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What caused JD Vance to change his tune on Trump is rightwing billionaires’ money. Peter Thiel’s money. These are political bribes that the billionaire-packed SCOTUS legalized.Vance and the GOP want to talk about immigrants.We should pivot to billionaires, every time. 1/2
(DIR) Post #Am0ZShzGdzpLHO0asy by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2024-09-14T22:31:50Z
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Americans hate corruption and hate billionaires. This is our home ground for discussion.Vance was bribed by billionaire Peter Thiel, and he corruptly shifted his positions because of that. Let’s just say that. The Republican Party is owned and controlled by billionaires./end
(DIR) Post #AswAxAdLOAHnwtWvD6 by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2025-04-10T03:29:59Z
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All real news outlets in the US:TARIFF TARIFF TARIFF THE STOCK MARKET IS IMPLODINGMurdoch’s NY Post, the fourth biggest paper in the US: mental illness, woman attacked, Democrats in New York have a problem
(DIR) Post #AswAxBNmbVQuGvG0au by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2025-04-10T03:30:05Z
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We cannot survive as a democracy with this level of billionaire-controlled lying in our media. Fix the media industry or democracy in the US is done, even if we get Trump out.
(DIR) Post #At6CDIp6kZBdW7t7GC by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2025-04-14T23:31:05Z
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Stephen Miller must go to prison.As the architect of a conspiracy against America and against human rights. Miller is behind actions like this.I will work for any Democrat who runs on that platform.https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
(DIR) Post #At6CDONK6mWijgw0mm by protecttruth@mastodon.online
2025-04-14T23:31:10Z
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And I will work against any Democrat who runs on worthless “bipartisanship.”Fight.The fight is now.