The Failing News Media (Fox News bukkake hour)

[Day]

I have never seen a news publiction (opinion or not) publish 7 numbers to call senator to try to stop a piece of legislation, maybe I should have been more clear, of course the talking head shows are going to have advocates for either campaign on

[Andalusian girls]

the New York Times's editorial board is generally held in higher regard than the protohumans they trot out on Fox and Friends. it is a p extraordinary act of partisanship, but then that isn't especially new for them.

[Day]

well I guess they are owning it?

[Tyche]

Have you seen the WSJ editorial board lol?

[Salodin]

I was gonna say...a publically listed phone number is what's bad to Day? He must skip pasts the posts about the WSJ editorial page lol.

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[Day]

WSJ turned their whole op-ed twitter account into an account to push an agenda against a specific piece of legislation? If so I missed it. Didn't realize opinions meant one opinion.

[Yuri-G]

oh knock it the fuck off, you know damn well the right-wing media has been pushing legislative agendas for decades now. the left too, but the right has always been better at it. have they ever published phone numbers in an attempt to get their viewers to speak up? probably yes, maybe not, I don't feel like doing the research either way.


quit acting like what the NYT is doing is some horrible unprecedented act of terrorism against American democracy. or keep it up I guess, if you want, but know that ain't nobody fooled by your trolling-ass bullshit

[Day]

I'm not trolling.

[Dimmauk]

I'm not trolling.

Either you are terribly uninformed or you're trolling.

[Zealot]

I think it's valid to be concerned when a newspaper usurps its own opinion page to push a specific piece of legislation, no matter how much we might like said legislation.

[Fiye]

Its valid of course but the optics of 'this is for the benefit of the public' makes it really fucking tolerable especially when the tax bill is set to fuck up so many people.

It'd be a different story if, say, they did this to support a Roe v. Wade appeal or to help push Ajit's repeat of net neutrality but the amount of rage generated across social media would be intense.

[Ksandra]

Either you are terribly uninformed or you're trolling.

While I disagree with day on about 95% of what he says, I don't think he's either. If Fox News had posted a thing to get people to call to pass the tax reform you all would be in a tizzy.

Our goal should be to get the media to be more fact-reporting than opinion-pushing whether we agree with the opinion or not.

[dasva]

I'll agree this is a somewhat unusual thing to do and to an extent people are basing how they feel about it on the message/source rather than the act.

On the other hand I don't really think this is necessarily omfg NYT is the worst (at least for this). Think it was kind of bound to happen with how social media is being used nowadays by companies often to more talk to your users/followers combined with the partisan nature that comes with well people but definitely people covering news which often involves politics. They might be the first (no idea really) but I doubt they will be the last

[Dimmauk]

While I disagree with day on about 95% of what he says, I don't think he's either. If Fox News had posted a thing to get people to call to pass the tax reform you all would be in a tizzy.

Our goal should be to get the media to be more fact-reporting than opinion-pushing whether we agree with the opinion or not.

I wasn't defending a certain side, just saying that if you think it's only the left, then fucking lol.

[Salodin]

The entire Fox News network shills for every single Republican piece of agenda, but the NYT editorial posts some publically listed phone numbers and people are in a tissey?

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[Byrthnoth]

tbf the tax bill is so bad on so many fronts that being opposed to it shouldn't be partisan

sorry that more than half of our senators/house of representatives are idiots

[Salodin]

Never mind that! What about all the times the President of the United States talked shit on the official Twitter handle of POTUS about that newspaper company. Where the fuck is the outrage at that? But that same board posts the [public] phone numbers to a senator and were suddenly not so sure about these norms being broken?

Cmonnnnn

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[Salodin]

Spare me your faux outrage for your faux news.

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[Day]

Sir it seems you may be engaging in a bit of whataboutism

[Ksandra]

The entire Fox News network shills for every single Republican piece of agenda, but the NYT editorial posts some publically listed phone numbers and people are in a tissey?

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No one is in a tizzy. That’s the point. We love to point out when Fox News does shit like this.