Wait newspapers are supposed to endorse presidential candidates? i thought they pride themselves to be “politically neutral” or some stupid liberal concept.
So the reason this is controversial is that the Washington post almost always does and when the editors room said, “we want to endorse Harris,” Jeff Bezos went, “we don’t endorse candidates starting now.”
Every Canadian local newspaper will endorse the conservative candidate without fail
Because every Canadian newspaper is owned by PostMedia. Our media landscape is bleak.
Say what you want about propaganda under socialism, but westoids are so cucked they actually pay for the privilege of being brainwashed
so they’re ok with genocide denial and getting all their info straight from the CIA but not ok with them not endorsing Harris?
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imagine paying for news.
next imagine paying for news baked with pro-capitalist propaganda.
now imagine cancelling that subscription because the capitalist propaganda wouldn’t praise the blue capitalist.
Seriously, what kind of thoughtless husk subscribes to a newspaper? What kind of void entity cancels their subscription to said newspaper because of electoralism?
I feel like I already consume too much news through internet exposure alone.
i put this thread into notebooklm and listened to the podcast it generated and I think this stuff would be good to unbrainwash liberals because it presents it in a format they are familiar with – npr-style podcasts. I think it’s only a matter of time until notebooklm becomes censored though.
the podcast:
- recommended people to think critically
- read media from diverse sources, including from other countries.
- discussed the westoids and imagine paying for news comments
Stupid ass treat printer go brrrr
Would the endorsement have been effectual at all?
Are there undecided voters paying for fucking WaPo? Americans can’t even read
My lib friends: “Glad I canceled that earlier this year already, hahah”
This feels like a serious fuck up for the western media. They handwave the existence of their billionaire owners by saying that they don’t determine what gets printed , even though that’s an obvious lie , but now they’re on record with the billionaire owner putting his foot down for Trump.
Liberals will say it’s no biggie. Their nonsense argument will be that liberal billionaires should start buying newspapers.
Lol Bezos was supposed to be that liberal billionaire.
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To push off the glass cliff.
With libs feeling betrayed, I hope I can set some of them on the leftist pipeline by offering them the writings of Thomas Frank.
The whole “good rich” that liberals cozied up to was never meant to last.
I actually support the libs that unsub from wapo, not because i care about them not endorsing kamala but because this will hurt the journalists in wapo that have been posting genocide denial stories in the paper for months
this will hurt the journalists in wapo that have been posting genocide denial stories in the paper for months
I think their jobs are secure. If cutbacks are needed - the paper will fire the people least important and/or who make the least amount of money.
Smd democracy dies in dwindling subscription revenue
Trump calling stuff fake news and saying journalists are the enemy (
) caused liberal trust of the media to skyrocket. They had more skepticism though not enough before that. Compared with conservatives, liberals claimed higher levels of trust of everything including literal right wing propaganda outlets since Trump. Conservatives basically only trust Fox News which is just about the only right wing propaganda that liberals didn’t trust. So I hope they wake up to the fact that all media is owned by capitalists and there’s apparently a lot of value they see in being able to influence public opinion.No, they won’t, they treat this strictly personally.
Conservatives have even started turning against Fox because “It’s not conservative enough.” They were pissing and shitting all over themselves when Fox announced Biden won in 2020.
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I always thought newspapers endorsing candidates was cringe anyway, tbh. I’m sure Bezos’ motives were not altruistic, but I feel like people are making a bigger deal out of this than it really is.
They definitely are… WaPo could have easily just done and said nothing and no one would have been the wiser, but instead they drew attention to it.
No they couldn’t have. Several people quit, they cried about Bezos blocking them from endorsing Kamala, other news outlets reported it.
All Bezos could have done in that situation would have been to say nothing but people would absolutely have been the wiser about it being blocked by him and they’d probably lose as many subscriptions as from this. I doubt his statement wins or loses him any meaningful number of subscribers, it’s just cover so he doesn’t have to come out and say actually he’d rather stay on Trump’s good side in case he wins and/or maybe he thinks Trump is better for his interests but of course would prefer associating with someone so uncouth.
You are right, I was trying to agree and say that news media could/should just not endorse. I didn’t articulate that tho.
I agree tho, the cat was out of the bag on this situation when people started quitting over it.
I didn’t put this in the dunk tank because I assume Bezos doesn’t care at all. He uses the paper to advertise Prime etc. His bigger toy cost him twice as much - his $500m yacht. Also - he’s clearly betting on a Trump win and he’ll recoup any tiny WaPo losses via juicy federal contracts that come his way.
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