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The people who needed to be convinced think the New York Times is globalist propaganda. If they even noticed the existence of this article they would assume it was a made up smear campaign against Dear Leader.
Also, our media (even the "liberal media") is part of the problem. For example, they did such a terrible job explaining Trump's attempts to steal the 2020 election that to this day even many anti-Trump Americans don't understand how fucked up it was.
The primary blame is on the sociopaths in charge and the troglodytes who voted them in, but there is plenty of guilt to go around.
My folks didn’t even know the fake elector story until Liz Cheney’s book came out. That was Dec 2023
60 Minutes didn’t cover fake electors until Feb 2024.
Like it or not, this is likely on par with the experience of tens of millions of American voters.
Totally agreed, media failed to present the full scope of the conspiracy and did it way too fucking late.
The media didn't fail at all, it worked exactly as intended.
if the average voting american knew how to read they would be very upset!
I worked in news media in the Bush years and I got to see first hand how our national news promoted the lies coming from the Bush administration and helping spearhead support for an Iraq invasion.
The media has been a problem for a long time.
Iraq II - Shock and Awe was definitely a huge part of my political awakening. I'm still saddened (but no longer amazed) that more people didn't figure it out at the time, and that so many still haven't figured it out.
People still think the NYT is some left leaning (or even "far left" in some circles) source. It's fucking absurd.
https://youtu.be/nOg8Roq8CtY
I'm still pretty pissed off about that. It's when I learned that a huge number of my fellow citizens are really stupid. Covid was when I learned that they're also hateful pieces of shit.
Freedom fries, you guys. Woohoo.
NYT endorsed Iraq invasion even though there was no evidence of WMDs and the rest of the world was against it. Surprise, no WMDs were found.
Interestingly, some companies did steal billions upon billions of dollars and we blew the national debt up. Strange that outcome ..
NYT also sat on the story about NSA wiretapping US citizens for over a year at the behest of the Bush admin. Later, DNI Clapper would deny that spying on Americans happened "wittingly," a denial which would push Edward Snowden to leak information thst proved otherwise.
The NYT also sat on the story of Trump having Maduro kidnapped. They (along with WaPo) were informed of the operation 24 hours before it happened.
NYT also faked a story about Hamas raping people on october 7 by hiring an Israeli videographer with no journalistic experience by writing down faked uncorroborated testimonies without evidence to create support for the genocide.
Absolutely, but I think right now it's important to be able to show that this behavior goes back decades and isn't some new phenomenon that so many people act as though it is.
The NSA story they sat on was in 2007 when they published it, so literally has been 20 years this year.
It goes back way before that too. During WWII they were firmly against the US entering the war and also against allowing Jewish refugees into the country.
I don't recall the media covering the fake electors of the Jan 6 coup hardly at all. The media loved to cover the big violent crowd becaus it was flashy. However, the fake elector scheme was the more significant crisis in my mind. That showed a planned and coordinated effort by people in power to subvert democracy.
You probably don't recall because you aren't paying attention.
It was indeed covered:
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079835695/how-trump-sought-to-use-fake-electors-conspiracy-theories-to-remain-in-power
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1217680464/nevada-false-electors-charged
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/fake-electors-explainer
https://abcnews.go.com/US/boss-leave-proffer-videos-show-trump-lawyers-telling/story?id=104831939
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows-and-trumps-other-partners-in-alleged-crime
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-fake-electors-wisconsin-acknowledge-bidbidenen-won-election-rcna128390
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/politics/chesebro-troupis-jan-6-messages.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/fake-electors-explained-trump-jan-6.html
https://whyy.org/articles/fake-electors-trump-overthrow-election-2020/
I think this is getting to the core of how Trump has been so successful. Every important story is drowned out by an endless flood of shit. Good journalism still exists, but it has gotten almost impossible to find as news channels rush to cover the latest distraction Trump is up to. The real stories drown in the bullshit.
Long story short I think it's possible to pay attention and nevertheless miss out on important stories, due to the fundamental flaws of the information ecosystem. It's really only necessary to write one story about something like this, but whatever Trump is up to gets a new story every hour.
Precisely.
The biggest lie of them all is the “Liberal” in liberal media
All American media is essentially fascist, they’ve proven this beyond a doubt
If there were even a HINT of an ALLEGATION that Biden or Obama were party to INFANTICIDE they would have burned DC to the ground. Now all the US media outlets are just participating in the damage control operation
This is absolute horseshit.
look up who owns whatever media outlet you think isn't fascist
Lol no it isn't. The United States, all the people there, all the politicians and the culture are 100% pure settler colonial and fascist. You are the bad guys.
It's an exaggeration at least, but it's true that the regime friendly billionaire class has a lot of influence over some extremely popular media channels. The firings and changes made in Washington Post and more recently CBS are interesting case studies.
And of course many newsrooms make questionable decisions even if they are not fascist. I have little to no respect left for the New York Times, but I still believe they're independent enough and have enough talented staff to produce important journalism.
ProPublica is the bees knees.
No, the people who needed to be convinced were the on-the-fence independents who stupidly thought they’d get a better economy under “Trump the successful businessman” than Kamala “Joe Biden 2.0 Harris.” They’re the ones who dismissed Trump’s stated plans as bluster; the people you’re talking about knew he wasn’t joking and were counting on it.