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William Lindsey :toad:<p>"When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for billionaire babble.</p><p>When they talk of 'personal liberties and free markets' they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into greater economic insecurity and fear."</p><p>~ Robert Reich</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a><br>/8</p><p><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-the-oligarchy-stupid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">robertreich.substack.com/p/its</span><span class="invisible">-the-oligarchy-stupid</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The Opinions section is being told what their opinions are to be, from now on. And they seem to align with current thinking by the Trump regime’s current scumbag leaders. …</p><p>From a very quick survey by me of Wapo staffers: This is the worst thing to happen to The Washington Post ever in its 147 year life, including the Janet Cooke scandal."</p><p>~ Gene Weingarten</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br>/5</p><p><a href="https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/heart-breaking-news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geneweingarten.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">heart-breaking-news</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The message could not be clearer: editorial independence is dead at the Washington Post. Opinion editor David Shipley, recognizing this fact, has already resigned rather than oversee this ideological narrowing. ...</p><p>Democracy dies in darkness? No, it dies when billionaires decide they want their media properties to serve their personal ideological agendas rather than the public interest."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The audacity of claiming that free market ideas are 'underserved' in American media is staggering. Has Bezos somehow missed the existence of The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, and countless other outlets that have spent decades championing free-market capitalism?"</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"In a stunning announcement today, Jeff Bezos declared that The Washington Post's opinion section will now exclusively focus on 'personal liberties and free markets.' …</p><p>Today's announcement takes things to an entirely new level of billionaire meddling."</p><p>~ Parker Molloy </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/EconomicElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicElites</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br>/2</p><p><a href="https://www.readtpa.com/p/jeff-bezos-just-announced-the-washington" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">readtpa.com/p/jeff-bezos-just-</span><span class="invisible">announced-the-washington</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"What has happened at MSNBC in the last several days is such an orgy of bad faith and bad ideas that it may be an industry record. Joy Reid? Gone. Jonathan Capehart? Lost his show. Alex Wagner? Lost her show and demoted. Ayman Mohyeldin? Lost his show."</p><p>~ Charles Pierce</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulation</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63920939/msnbc-news-tv-shake-up-joy-reid/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">esquire.com/news-politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/a63920939/msnbc-news-tv-shake-up-joy-reid/</span></a></p>
Flowermob<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> Q: why is this unelected illegal immigrant opening his stupid trap about stuff he doesn’t know anything about? A: because the media and the GOP let him. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mediafailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediafailure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOPfascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPfascists</span></a></p>
B.<p>This is how the <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> is manufacturing consent to genocide in us.</p><p>The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza<br> by Owen Jones<br>👇👇👇<br><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-w</span><span class="invisible">ar-gaza-israel-biased-coverage</span></a></p><p>Excellent analysis on the <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/mediafailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediafailure</span></a> at the world's most read news outlet (<a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> online) which is part of the broader failiure of the majority of "western" media regarding holding <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> accountable. The situation at BBC can't be much different than the situation in the board rooms of <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Tagesschau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tagesschau</span></a>. </p><p>This genocide is happening now. Silence is complicity.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@uebermedien" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uebermedien</span></a></span> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/GB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GB</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Fuck Vice. This was their plan all along.</p><p>Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/vice-news-right-wing-trumpism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2024/11/19/vi</span><span class="invisible">ce-news-right-wing-trumpism/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vice</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MediaFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaFailure</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RWMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RWMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FoxSpews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoxSpews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>