The standard media will not be our buddy.
That’s not a controversial stance, however the notion of the “liberal media” has been a hindrance for progressive power-building. It’s not their job to be our buddy, however in contrast to conservative donors, who by no means tire of constructing new pleasant media shops, liberal donors refused to take action as a result of, you recognize, “liberal media.”
This 12 months, the progressive motion noticed the folly of that perception. And it brings residence simply how vital it’s to help actual progressive media like Each day Kos.
So sure, I’ll be asking you to subscribe. And if you happen to already subscribe and have the means, now you can give present subscriptions!
I don’t must let you know guys that The New York Instances was godawful this 12 months. Certainly, writer A.G. Sulzberger mentioned the paper’s job is to troll its liberal readers, saying that they need to be “willing to take a simple, easy, or comfortable story and complicate it with truths that people don’t want to hear.” He took it as a badge of honor that his paper’s work “will never win over the partisans.”
Cool, cool. That’s what this implies for the Instances: providing blanket protection of Hillary Clinton’s bullshit e mail story, whereas sanewashing Trump. Certainly, the Instances’ atrocities this cycle are too exhausting to listing. However only a reminder, Sulzberger actually punished President Joe Biden for refusing to grant the paper an unique interview. They don’t seem to be liberal; they’re a menace.
The Washington Publish, in fact, is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who barred his paper’s editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to curry favor with Trump. Bezos additionally owns an aerospace producer, and Trump will use that and different federal contracts to punish anybody who doesn’t bend the knee. The Publish will not be liberal, and Bezos actually has bent the knee.
Media critic Jeff Jarvis calls out the media within the starkest phrases:
You may have refused to acknowledge fascism on the door. You insist on overlaying authoritarianism as simply one other aspect in still-symmetrical American politics […]
You let yourselves be exploited by these malign forces to unfold their bigotry and bile, cushioned together with your white-gloved euphemisms and sane-washing. You don’t clarify blood libel to your readers. Is that as a result of you don’t acknowledge it your self? […]
You quote their noxious phrases, taking them at face worth — as beliefs, as “alternative facts” — unable to see how they’re as a substitute saying these items to sign their belonging to the cult and trigger […]
You cover behind your impotent fact-checking, by no means seeing — although ceaselessly warned — that within the methods you debunk their lies, you unfold them, and by pedantically nitpicking the opposite aspect in your misguided seek for stability you create false equivalence. That is how they exploit you.
You thus misinform yourselves and the general public you serve by refusing to name lies lies, racism racism, misogyny misogyny, authoritarianism authoritarianism, fascism fascism.
On Monday, Trump critics Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who collectively host MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” admitted on air that they visited Trump in Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. However nobody felt the necessity to kiss Biden’s ass. Nothing proves our concern of creeping authoritarianism greater than the panic within the energy class and its rush to indicate Trump he has nothing to concern from them. And Fox Information is cheering on this mass give up to Trump.
You understand who gained’t kiss Trump’s ass or bend any knees?
I gained’t. Each day Kos gained’t. And I do know you gained’t.
Each day Kos is right here as we speak due to reader help, and certainly, you guys at the moment are round 75% of our revenues. Earlier this 12 months, we went by a tricky workers discount and company-wide restructuring to make sure that we’re lean, imply, and sustainable on this brutal media panorama. Your help has by no means been extra instantly targeted on producing what brings you to Each day Kos within the first place—related, hard-hitting tales and knowledge, in addition to neighborhood.
And that’s why our newsroom is the one place the place we haven’t made cuts. Over the previous 12 months, we’ve got assembled a top-notch group, and we aren’t executed. When all of the hires are full, I’ll formally introduce you to all the brand new faces. I can’t wait to take action.
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