If you follow as many journalists and media types as we do on Twitter, you’ve certainly seen a backlash against the idea that news is supposed to present both sides of an issue. How do you cover both sides when one side is clearly right and the other side is composed of Nazis and fascists. Matthew Dowd, formerly of ABC News, put it pretty clearly when he said, “You don’t talk to crazy people.”
.@matthewjdowd, who has blocked approximately 74 percent of Twitter users, is challenging his media colleagues to stop treating Republicans like they’re anything other than “insane” pic.twitter.com/18ZFSyKO7k
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 28, 2021
Nice chyron, MSNBC: “BREAKING NEWS: Biden restoring sanity to White House as GOP doubles down on lies, disinformation.” See, that’s the kind of journalism leftists want to see.
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen called out the New York Times Monday for using the “depends on who you ask” device in order to slip some right-wing misinformation into its reporting:
The "depends on who you ask" device is one of the surest indicators of an oncoming both-sides-do-it frame. https://t.co/f2w3LhiV07 Here, Democrats are frustrated by the gerrymander. Republicans are just as frustrated by school teachers, college professors and media personalities. pic.twitter.com/oi2a2sH32k
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) October 23, 2022
“Of course, just what is threatening democracy depends on who you talk to” … which then opens up a discussion of conservatives and their “attacks” on liberal teachers, professors, and media personalities, as well as their resistance to Democrats “widening access to voting.”
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Michael Calderone is a Vanity Fair editor:
What Joe Kahn told @VanityFair in June: "The idea that the Times is stuck in some 1980s paradigm of both-sides journalism, where we don’t help readers sort out what’s really true or untrue, is pretty factually false." https://t.co/El0r5GB3ZQ https://t.co/c9QRb6QT0O
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) October 24, 2022
Shorter: We're leftists, deal with it.
— JC Silva (@VascoDG2) October 24, 2022
Who the F thinks this: "During the Trump era and its aftermath, the Times really sought to position itself as nonpartisan, or not the resistance, or whatever you want to call it…"?
— FLPlantaganet (@Broomblossem) October 24, 2022
What's true? Take for eg Georgia smashing EV records right now. Why were Georgia GOP election reforms slandered as Jim Crow 2.0? Why did the media and Dems like Abrams demand statements from Georgia-based CEOs, and they dutifully followed?
What did you do to tell the truth?
— Pol Writ (@PolWrit) October 24, 2022
Taking the Democrat side of "free people choosing to elect Republicans is a threat to Democracy" propaganda talking point is an IQ test. One that most media have failed. https://t.co/H4ULE8dWPt
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 24, 2022
One of the Top 5 threats to U.S. and possibly all of Western journalism is @JayRosen, NYU's mad j-scientist who often derides "both sides." He has limited full-time print news experience though. He's just a left-wing prof who fully bought Russiagate.https://t.co/kOsSRHaRYT
— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) October 24, 2022
"Factually false" is good.
— Ted Iacobuzio (@TedIacobuzio) October 24, 2022
Better to be emotionally true than factually accurate.
A new tactic in this battle seeks to smear voters rather than candidates, who are blasted for placing concerns about their material well being above establishment fetishes such as "preserving democracy," thereby attempting to shame GOP candidates into opposing their own voters.
— William M. Doyle (@WilliamMDoyle2) October 24, 2022
We’ve seen that again and again from the media and Democrats … democracy itself is on the ballot this November. Even Barack Obama dropped by Twitter to say it. Never mind that polls show that it’s not working and people are focused on the economy and inflation.
Every day is a test of IQ, ethics, and honor, and every day most media … well, you know.
— Cruadin (@cruadin) October 24, 2022
Democrats have either lost their reason to think for themselves or allowing propaganda to take over their thought process entirely and that’s a real problem.
— Teri Ellison (@EllisonTeri) October 24, 2022
And a pure distillation of their viewpoint that citizen-rubes are too stupid to make up their own minds and need the Times to sort it all out for us.
— Jamie Wilson (@jamiewils) October 24, 2022
Imagine the bubble you must live in to think the New York Times is making the “mistake” of covering both sides of every issue.
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‘DESPERATION on full display’: Fetterman campaign brings in Obama to warn voters ‘our democracy is on the line’ https://t.co/EJikQtVon4
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 21, 2022
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