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Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>Tepid, almost non-existant coverage of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/handsoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>handsoff</span></a> by cable and network media. </p><p>Compare and contrast.</p><p>When the asinine <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/teaparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaparty</span></a> loons and fools like sarah palin had events, more 'news media' showed up to cover it than there were participants. Pathetic. </p><p>The non-stop 'reporting' of these crackpots filled the airwaves for months. Disgusting.</p><p>Corporate media news <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> and has been for generations - they are <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a> of the oligarchs and plutocrats.</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>Negative reports are going to start to magically disappear from corporate news networks in (looks at calendar) about 2 weeks. </p><p>Any problems will be blamed on the 'obstructionist minority'. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/JournalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalismIsDead</span></a></p><p>(Clarification - there are actual good journalists and reporters out there, but you will not find (m)any on corporate media outlets. Except maybe Comedy Central. The good ones are buried under an impenetrable wall of automobile, pharmaceutical, insurance and junk food ads.)</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fmhilton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fmhilton</span></a></span> </p><p>Why bother. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a>. </p><p>Fixing grammar just prolongs the agony.</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>No, NPR it didn't "open the floodgates" - it reveals your FAILURE to report the reality that millions suffered and continue to do so. </p><p>(But you'll insist that all those corporate sponsorships had absolutely NOTHING to do with your failure to report, amirite?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-opens-floodgates-of-americans-insurance-frustrations" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/nation/united</span><span class="invisible">healthcare-ceo-shooting-opens-floodgates-of-americans-insurance-frustrations</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>What a damned shame some unknown rich executive has to be murdered so that people can tell their stories AND ACTUALLY BE HEARD FOR ONCE, of being denied health insurance coverage by out-of-control evil predatory corporations. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> </p><p>Dead as the patients denied Healthcare, care they desperately needed to survive. </p><p>What a shame.</p><p>In a few days, all the stories of millions denied care will be swept under the rug. </p><p>Until next time.</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@ashton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ashton</span></a></span> </p><p>Corporate <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> is shit, and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> </p><p>They want to burn books, burn people, and appoint fascists </p><p>Welcome to #1984</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://toad.social/@wdlindsy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wdlindsy</span></a></span> </p><p>Corporations killed it </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsAJoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsAJoke</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>Corporate <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mediaMafia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediaMafia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/reporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reporting</span></a> is garbage. </p><p>Watch a half-hour national "news show". You'll get 17 minutes of commercials, 5 minutes of sports / entertainment / feel good noise, 4 minutes of disaster / weather / war / crime coverage, 3 minutes of repeating he said / she said 'reporting', and one minute of polling results. </p><p>It's JUNK </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@TCatInReality" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TCatInReality</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>NPR is just like commercial 'news' - they are desperate to get listeners so they play the same game for-profit news plays. </p><p>Attract listeners. Without them, the corporate sponsors say "bye bye". </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>Corporate <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mediaMafia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediaMafia</span></a> news wants to sell rusty cars crappy junk food questionable drugs and fraudulent insurance because that's how they make money</p><p>If you're dependent upon them for actual news reporting you're out of luck - all they want is ad revenue and sponsors</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> long ago</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>The 271 pages on JD <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Jackwagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jackwagon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> reveals a lot </p><p>Most importantly </p><p>"Trump’s vulgarity, his hysterics, his domineering indifference to the truth – all these used to fascinate voters, or at least the national media. But <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has lost his juice."</p><p>- since it's not "newsworthy" so-called journalists have given up reporting it. Doesn't create ad revenue or sponsorship. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/jd-vance-dossier-leak-trump-campaign" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/oct/01/jd-vance-dossier-leak-trump-campaign</span></a></p><p>(Thank goodness The Guardian is still around)</p><p><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/us/contribute" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">support.theguardian.com/us/con</span><span class="invisible">tribute</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sfba.social/@jamesmarshall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jamesmarshall</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@SueDiOh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SueDiOh</span></a></span> </p><p>Corporate news media wants ad revenue and sponsorship. They'll do anything to get it, because <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismisdead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismisdead</span></a> </p><p>If that means making fake polls that will be used to foment a violent insurrection, They Don't Care.</p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>News reporters and journalists continue to over-analyze and dig through minutiae of what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz say, desperate to find that "Gotcha" moment to get that scoop for ADVERTISING REVENUE and CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP - you KNOW - that pays their salaries.</p><p>--</p><p>Trump and Vance?</p><p>Oh, people are tired of hearing the Lies, the Bigotry, the calls to Violence, the outright Insanity.</p><p>"Our editors told us "don't bother, we can't sell adspace or attract sponsors with it".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDEAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDEAD</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@barney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>barney</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@pbump" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pbump</span></a></span> </p><p>It really smells that 'journalists' have to pull out a rotting corpse to make some stupid jokes just to AVOID talking about the genocidal traitorous rants of a madman who is the leader of the Republican Party.</p><p>But it's what we pay for. </p><p>My suggestion?</p><p>STOP PAYING THEM.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDEAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDEAD</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>Corporate network "journalists" and "reporters" pour over every word, nuance, pause, and inflection that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz make. </p><p>These same so-called "news professionals" bury and gloss-over the incessant wall of lies and filth from <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a>: the shocking nonsense and absolute bedlam of a senile raving lunatic, and the annoying whiny disconnected yapping of his yet-to-be-potty-trained pet, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/jackwagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jackwagon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/JD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDEAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDEAD</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsAJoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsAJoke</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>News you'll never see or hear from today's so-called journalists about <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsComplicit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsComplicit</span></a> </p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TrumpTaliban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTaliban</span></a> Agreement: the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters in prison, many of whom rejoined the Taliban armed offensive"</p><p><a href="https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-call-out-republican-efforts-to-whitewash-former-president" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oversightdemocrats.house.gov/n</span><span class="invisible">ews/press-releases/oversight-democrats-call-out-republican-efforts-to-whitewash-former-president</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>Every time RFK Jr is mentioned on the "news" it's a Waste Of Time. </p><p>It's INSULTING.</p><p>It's ASININE. </p><p>It's what corporate network "news" does best. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a></p>
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦<p>WAPO and NYT are mouthpieces for fascism, they provide cover for violent insurrectionists, bigoted extremists and cover up their lies. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/journalismIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalismIsDead</span></a> dead and buried</p>
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