Is it the media or the media consumers/customers?
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I do think Fox is a lot worse and more partisan than the others, for sure. There are some newer upstarts that are even more extreme again.
Still, MSNBC, for example, usually carries the perspective of the left. Yes, the reporting and journalism are more robust, but there’s not too much focus on issues of concern to the right.
That allows Fox to run with it to the nth degree.
Probably a little from column A and column B.
Still, the customers will consume what is on offer.
Alex Jones seems to be in a bit of bother
Interestingly the cache also includes the period around the Capital Riot. The way in which the prosecution came into possession of them doesnt limit them to only using information related to this specific trial, so I suspect the FBI have already received a phone call.
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I believe I saw that the January 6th committee have already subpoenaed them.
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this thread name needs to be changed to “Corruption Inc, the US Politics thread”
What many expected was the truth, is coming to light.
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That reporting from the Insider is interesting. Isnt this something we already knew to be true? Im wondering what Im missing in the news value that would make that admission be worthy of a new piece? Is it simply that he’s never admitted it before?
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understanding that this is only coming out today, it’s definitely putting a different light on his first impeachment and the 2016 election. passing info to Russia who could have manipulated social media to affect outcome in certain regions.
it’s very much along the lines of what The Great Hack documentary was addressing. Cambridge Analytica, but more sinister because this is after the annexation of Crimea. I’ve always been curious as to why the West was so reticent about what happened 8 years ago when a sovereign state was invaded by it’s neighbor.
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The US right’s adoration for Putin is so weird. Here are a bunch of people who vociferously pronounce their patriotism, while at the same time fawning over the country’s enemy.
The dissonance is mind blowing.
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They just have a different take on who the real enemy is. It’s a wild take, but I think once you appreciate it is a view so authentically held by so many a lot of the what the US right does makes more sense.
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I’m piecing back through what we already knew. Both the Mueller report and that of the Senate Intelligence committee confirmed that Kilimnik had these data and that Manafort had given it to him. The US Treasury later went further in explicitly stating these were passed onto Russian Intelligence agencies, and so I think the newsworthiness is that Manafort always denied it and now is coming clean.
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because he was pardoned by Trump, he had to do little-to-no jail time. One hand washes the other.
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Hinting at a possible congressional investigation into the sitting attorney general if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections, Mr. McCarthy added, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”
The irony is as breathtaking as it is galling.
I wonder if Garland will be accused of flushing stuff down the shitter??
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the pot stirs…
This is really dangerous stuff in a country where even the mentally deranged can get guns easily
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Seems like Republicans suddenly agree with defunding law enforcement.
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If everyone had guns you’d not need law enforcement - ergo, instead of stimulus checks, just send out an AR15s (or similar) to each person over 8.
If the Democrats were smart - and that’s usually pretty debatable - they’d put abortion on every state ballot in 2024 and run the campaign they ran in Kansas.
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