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1. Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:54:43 JST Dan Gillmor

   One of Big Journalism's saddest traits is choosing to be helpless in the face of challenges with ready solutions. Two examples:

   1) Political coverage still obsesses on falsely balanced issues and horse races, and continues to normalize extremism, even when our democracy is at stake.

   2) Journalists stay on Twitter, or X or whatever, even though the person controlling it uses the site to amplify extremists, including enemies of democracy (and journalism).

   The (few) exceptions prove the rule.

   • Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (zhizhu@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:54:38 JST Zhi Zhu 🕸️

     in reply to

     • Nick Martin

     @dangillmor @nickmartin

     “Treating truth and lies as worthy of equal consideration makes the media complicit in MAGA deception."
     https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/05/media-coverage-2024-republican-election-lies/

     See Mastodon thread of article: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/110498505332327306

     #FactualNotNeutral
     #Journalism #Politics #News #Media

   • Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:54:39 JST Dan Gillmor

     in reply to

     • Nick Martin

     @nickmartin It should be a turning point for a lot of journalists, but they believe themselves to be hooked.

   • Nick Martin (nickmartin@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:54:42 JST Nick Martin

     in reply to

     @dangillmor I haven't been on social media much this year due to health reasons, but the news that Twitter is now funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in ad revenue to the kinds of extremists you mention was a deal breaker for me.

     I justified it before because there are still important folks (like the disability community) that are kind of stuck there or haven't found another platform yet. But I'm not going to be a party to financially supporting bigots.

   • Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:55:24 JST Alex Gleason

     in reply to

     • Zhi Zhu 🕸️
     • Nick Martin
     @ZhiZhu @dangillmor @nickmartin My god man, chill out. Are you retarded?
   • :btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 (graf@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:55:24 JST :btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐

     in reply to

     • Alex Gleason
     • Zhi Zhu 🕸️
     • Nick Martin
     @alex @nickmartin @dangillmor @ZhiZhu hes on the journalist instance, i think you know the answer to that