#centrism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #centrism, aggregated by home.social.
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[…] authoritarian liberals who, once in power, consider resorting to force because they know full well that their policies are unpopular; those same authoritarian liberals who want to form an alliance with the far right, who back down because it wants too much, and finally take a gamble on entrusting it with power…"
Johan Chapoutot wrote about Germany in 1932
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"'not to center the fact that the people telling the lies are liars, but rather to center the lie; to adopt it as the framing for their reporting.' …
The media is privileging the lie that the takeover is intended to fight crime, when common sense and a mountain of evidence make it abundantly clear that it is not."
#Trump #WashintonDC #media #centrism #BothSidesism #normalization #sanewashing #fascism #crime #Epstein
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"There is a name for the phenomenon by which the media focuses on the false pretext instead of the real motives.
Back in 2008, political strategist and media critic Jamison Foser introduced the phrase 'privileging the lie,' which (as he wrote more recently) describes 'the news media’s tendency to center lies in its coverage of politics –'" (continued in /5)
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"Journalists should instead be aggressively reporting on Trump’s real motives, which include distracting from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, perpetuating racism, and normalizing the military takeover of an American city.
And yet the overwhelming majority of the media coverage of this debacle has focused on the issue of crime."
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"The elite media shouldn’t even remotely indulge the ridiculous lie that Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital has anything to do with crime."
~ Dan Froomkin
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/2https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-elite-media-still-falls-for-trumps
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"If President Trump installed a guillotine where the White House Rose Garden used to be and started kidnapping and then beheading one Democratic member of Congress every day at noon, in a matter of days there would be an article in The Atlantic titled 'Beheading Opposition Politicians is Wrong, But Democrats Need to Rethink Their Opposition to the Death Penalty.'”
~ Paul Waldman
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/1https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic-messaging-crime-trump-dc
