• FuglyDuck
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    35 days ago

    and they tone down the language. or they never have it in to begin with.

    but you can not-sane-wash and still keep it fairly “journalistic”. you just have to be honest. How many news anchors saw what was happening live, were shocked and horrified and the next week it wen from ‘riots’ and ‘insurrection’ to “protest”?

    • @[email protected]
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      45 days ago

      Well yeah. Their choice is to either give in to the editor’s/owners demand that the language change or they don’t have a job anymore. I’m not saying the phenomenon you describe isn’t real. Just hold the appropriate people responsible and it is the editors setting the agenda, not the journalists 99% of the time.

      • FuglyDuck
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        15 days ago

        … And if you are scoffing, “Well, that will never happen …” Congratulations. You can add an attempted coup, and the worst attack on our Capitol in more than 200 years to the list of horrible things you have helped normalize the past eight years. …

        Sorry. He compromised as a journalist and helped normalize the shitheal. He’s part of the reason why people laughed and refused to believe that Trump was spouting Nazis rhetoric practically cloned from the Nuremberg address in 2016.

        And this asshole in particular thinks it’s my fault?

        I’ve been calling trump out for being a Nazis- and journalists and editors collectively ignored the signs that were sitting right there in front of everyone.

        You’re right. He could have lost his job.

        Booohooo. Millions of Americans have died as a direct result of trump’s presidency. A president journalists everywhere helped normalize.

        You don’t get to pass that buck.