The fact is that there is almost no more important job for the news media than to demand answers to these sorts of questions before a president takes the country to war.
There is also some context specific to Trump: He’s erratic, deranged, and impulsive. There can be no assumption that this is a reasoned decision. Journalists should make that clear as well.
And did no one learn the lessons from the cowardly, cheerleading mainstream-media coverage of the run-up to the Iraq War? I’m really agog at how understated the coverage is.
As I wrote last June, I believe journalists have a particular obligation to inform the public about the dangers and horrors of war. They are a repository of certain truths about war: That it is horrible; that it is easier to get into a war than get out of it; that war is often entered into under false pretenses; that when it comes to war, governments lie.
This time though our intentions are pure and war is going to work!
Fixed - “The US news media is succeeding in its mission to prevent the public from knowing there is a possible war with Iran coming”
What did ever happen to that one old lady anyway?
I see articles about Iran on the the front pages of NYTimes, CNN, and even CBS News. Some have multiple articles and have Iran in their ticker.
This presswatchers.org site has one article about Iran on their front page. The article linked doesn’t do any actual journalism, and summarzes the work actual journalists have done.
Trump has been asked questions on Iran, but not by anyone at “presswatchers.org” which appears to be the personal blog of some guy called Dan Froomkin who doesn’t appear to be doing any actual journalism. He just sits around complaining about the news being too fact based and not having enough opinion in it.
What in the critical thinking is going on here?
If you’ve been indoctrinated by fascist American culture you probably think it’s completely normal to constantly attack the free press at every opportunity.
Eh… I’ve definitely been indoctrinated by American culture, and I don’t think that at all. Free press is essential to free people.
Instead of talking about the horrible things the fascists in power are doing, Americans across the board sit around complaining about the media and the Democrats. It’s not just that there’s fascists in power, USA has become a fascist society. There are the fascists that directly support Trump and a whole bunch of useful idiots that spend all day attacking any opposition to Trump while pretending to be against him.
You aren’t going to stop fascism by spending all of your time complaining about the media and complaining about the already decimated political opposition to Trump. That’s exactly what the fascists want you to be doing. It’s getting more and more difficult to tell the difference between MAGAs and Americans that are supposedly against Trump because y’all are complaining about the exact same things.
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They aren’t failing us they are following the plan.
Could have just stopped after the eighth word and the headline would have been equally accurate.
Mainstream media, especially legacy media, have utterly failed the “don’t make fascism the new normal” test by continuing to pretend that every bald faced political lie is a normal difference of opinion consistent with regular Reagan conservatism 🤬
i feel like it should be illegal to take a country to war to cover up the fact that you’re a child rapist.
Since when has America held itself to a standard?
This is very likely to happen, especially if you remember in 2022 Putin waited until the end of the winter Olympics to invade Ukraine I would not be surprised at all if Trump waits for the current winter Olympics to end on the 22nd to strike Iran.
Except trump craves publicity so it’d be on brand for him to do anything to upstage something else in the news
Very true.
Saying that they’re failing us buys in to the lie that their goal is to inform us of the facts. That isn’t their goals. They are bought, owned and controlled by the ruling class.
What the fuck else is new? They’ve been failing us for decades now.
What is new is our righteousness of spirit! God is on OUR side this time!
I think
Trumps Special Military Operation.
Shit, they’ve been failing for decades. The Murc’s Law Media filled with reactionary centrists is largely why Pedonald is even in office at all…
Chomsky silent on this one as he hopes for a distraction from the Epstein files too.
They’re publicly traded for profit companies
The US media has always been a loyal servant of empire.
US media will need to have an “American state propaganda” label next to it.
You mean the liberal media? /s
LoL.
The right wing arm.of the government won’t cover it unless it makes Der Furher look good.
