Would like to add, that the reason to call out the media is not because there is any expectation that they clean up their act, but rather to create public awareness about the extent to which they are complicit.
@mastodonmigration oh, absolutely! may i suggest to do so a memory refreshers?
i love the NY Times Cooking section but i still haven't forgotten about they and CNN were complicit in manufacturing the war in Iraq. literally helped Bush lie to a Congress. don't get me started with Bezos and WaPo and Google and the complete decimation of newspapers & then local blogs, all across the US.
some of this is my own personal history, so it's easy, but the TL;DR: remind people of the whys. always.
Yes, knew that already (clutches pearls and weeps)... The media was never a friend. Yet as bad as things have been, things can always get worse. Feel like last night was a new low water mark.
@mastodonmigration say it loud and with the chest. they know what they're doing and are ready to burn it all down. we need more people treating them accordingly. especially people with huge followings like you.
courage is contagious; and so is mendacity. choose courage.