Broken Press

Weiss is being specifically hired by a right wing billionaire nepobaby to turn CBS into another right-wing friendly propaganda mill. but you genuinely wouldn't know that from reading the U.S. media industry's coverage of itself:

Question: Why are many people under the impression that Trump and the awful things he’s doing are popular, even though they’re not?

Answer: America is still a mostly free country where dissent against Trump’s dictatorial ambitions is widespread, but media keeps making it appear as if it’s not.

This article neglects to mention the longtime bizarre and false QAnon theories trying to link Tom Hanks to Epstein. So if it’s “just” his support for Biden, that’s the best case for the embarrassing cancelation of this ceremony.

Who gave NPR the #BrokenTimes' fascism thesaurus? No, PragerU does not "blur history." It lies, it propagandizes.
'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction

Not crazy about this framing. Yes, point out that Trump's justification for NG troops is bullshit, that red states have higher crime rates, and that it's all dangerous posturing.

But deploying the military to Memphis would also be destructive and anti-democratic. And crime is dropping everywhere.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith — co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times — if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S.

Good question.

The headline here is that

(1) the increasingly authoritarian US government demanded that Google suppress videos serving the public interest because those videos are embarrassing to government officials, and

(2) Google readily over-complied with that request, deleting not just the videos but the entire channel.

Journalists should see it, too.

They’re so close to getting it.

How ignoring science and killing people is "pushing the boundaries of public health."
Throw away your damned thesaurus, #BrokenTImes

So many ways not to say fascist in the #MurdochJournal: "Bolder President charges ahead...riffing on authoritarianism and ignoring caution...flirtation with a type of government that the U.S. shed at its founding, flexing federal muscle and busting through the norms...pushed the optics of the presidency in a monarchical direction...as he remakes the contours of the presidency...Trump era is marked by concentrating federal power in the Oval Office. 'I have the right to do anything I want to do'"

why would most americans see crime as a major problem in large cities

No, damnit, #BrokenTimes, this is not "reality TV." It is our democracy. You trivialize and normalize fascism. "Mr. Trump, a pop culture maven, had relatively little to say about what was arguably the biggest news of the day: the engagement of Taylor Swift." Fuck off, Times.

No, dear Guardian, your lede & hed should not feature this BS on AI sentience (we've seen this circus before) but rather Mustafa Suleyman's sensible refutation.

There seems to be a new beat at the #BrokenTimes: Conversations with people you wouldn't want to be stuck in an elevator with.

Kasich goes on a red-faced rant about crime in Chicago then says, "It's truly amazing that MSNBC allows me to come on." Well there, we agree. It's amazing that MSNBC has the bad judgment to include this Trumpist-in-sheep's-clothing. Next he praises Guiliani. Be gone.

Can we talk about that headline? If it’s true, you don’t need “Democrats say.” If it’s untrue, don’t put it in a headline. Either way, you’re fucking reporters. Find out what’s true, and write that.

We need a new paper of record to investigate the old paper of record. #brokenTimes

The #BrokenTimes does not merely open but smashes the Overton window by declaring Trump and his fascism "mainstream."

The #BrokenTimes and Post treat fascism as the dictator's cosplay. He's a play mayor! He's an activist investor. No, if you're going to costume him, dress him as Mussolini.