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When the big corporations control the government, all broadcast news is government controlled.

Seriously, you can't get much real news from the big broadcast companies any more. They all serve Lord Trump and his oligarch allies. Maybe local news from local affiliates is still accurate, but for national and international news you pretty well need to use online print news, or curate a good bluesky feed of reputable journalists.

And mods - please don't delete this, this is absolutely the sort of thing we are protesting against.

Time to renew efforts to boycott CBS/Paramount. These are the same guys that are cancelling the Colbert Report. That means CBS broadcast stations, Paramount+ streaming (including Star Trek, which hurts), and PlutoTV (CBS's free ad-supported streaming service).

We need organized campaigns to break the monopoly on media. Today is a good day to contact your senator and tell them you want to them to investigate these media companies for corruption and to break their monopolies. 

The irony of trying to 'bury' a story in the digital age is that you almost always just hand the shovel to the internet. The 'Bari Effect' actually has a nice ring to it. Also, that point about 'wolf in Walter Cronkite's clothing' regarding CBS is a bar.

Nobody in the administration responded when asked for comment, and now they're supposed to put on Stephen Goebbels to spout lies?

Whenever this clown gets out of office, we need a new Moral Majority in Congress to plug up all the holes in our system that Trump exposed. As well as a standing office to prosecute Trump-era crimes.

So, when are we heading to CBS HQ?

sounds like she served herself a big spicy plate of Bari-Bury Chicken

ok I'll see myself out now

MAGA needs to face the pain amd suffering they are causing. 

The story has (accidentally?) been streamed in Canada, then ripped and uploaded: https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24

Oh. My. GODDESS.

I just put CECOT and a few other relevant words into some searches, and clicked on different sources. “CECOT” and “Noem” brought up a… press release, I guess, on DHS’s web site about her visit there several months ago.

There’s a big red banner across the top of DHS’s web site that says “✔️NOTICE Holiday Deal: CBP Home now offering $3,000 Stipend for those who sign up before the end of the year!”

Thanks for this! As busy as I am with holiday preparations, I’ll make some time…

Bari Weiss is such a scumbag to cancel this segment. She has railed against "cancel culture" and "attacks on free speech" for years, but, no surprise, when she's in charge every accusation becomes a confession.

If you want to see the depth of her hypocrisy and principlelessness, just look at some of the quotations from the resignation letter that Weiss wrote when quitting from the New York Times. All of them apply to this situation, the only difference being that Weiss happens to now be in charge and agree with the current orthodoxy (rather than chaffing against it) and so she is happy to censor whatever the regime wants.

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Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.

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If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.

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But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.

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All this bodes ill, especially for independent-minded young writers and editors paying close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers. Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.

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