Have some self respect and journalistic integrity.
In America it really does seem like we can only trust some independent sources and media, certainly not the major networks that are bought and owned.
Even if they don’t speak out, I do from my device’s display on their behalf when I hear him talk like that to/about a reporter asking questions.
I want someone to snap, call him a piece of shit kiddie fucker, then if he gets indignant that ‘how dare you’, call him a thin-skinned baby who can dish it out but can’t take it. Make him so mad, on camera, that he strokes out live on air. I’d personally send that reporter money until the day I die, like how the original owner of Little Caesars paid for Rosa Parks apartment until she passed.
Fuck him! He would never talk to someone like that around me without having me escorted out as I verbally eviscerated him. He’s disrespect incarnate, and I was raised not to let someone talk to me, or anyone around me, like that!
Oh I do the same when I’m listening to Secular Talk or The Humanist Report sometimes. And to be clear, it’s not just him, but all these disingenuous fucks. I debunked Bezos so many ways the other day.
It’s just really disheartening how there’s never any pushback when it’s so easy.
“40% of federal taxes are paid by the top 1% of earners”
“And Mr. Bezos, how much do you earn and claim on your federal income? From past reporting we have you saying it’s $80,000 which would mean that you are not a 1% earner, correct?”
John Swinton allegedly said the following in 1883:
There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an “Independent Press”! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
I’m not sure how accurate it was in 1883, but it certainly is 100% accurate today. Whoever said it.
Just one “get fucked, cunt!" would go a long way.
I’ve wondered the same thing, many times.
A reminder that the McCarthy hearings finally ended when one witness, tired of being harassed, finally hollered back, in front of Congress: “HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, SIR?” and the judgemental Christian values of mid-50s America were suddenly shocked to their core. They suddenly realized that this sort of smarmy behavior is beneath the dignity of America.
I’ve been waiting for that moment, when someone finally puts him in his place in front of the world, giving him a royal telling off, and a journalist is the perfect person to do it effectively.
They’ll probably lose their job, and surely be banned from the White House, but they’ll get a better job out of it, and the support of the American people.
I think there’s a journalism principle that’s something like “don’t be the story”
Yea but they are anyways because he says that shit so its too late to not be the story.
The Spider Jerusalem proviso
Respectability politics, in a slightly different context. “Policies” that are effectively unwritten threats.
Journalism is no longer about investigation and bringing truth to power, but about access. Most journalists across the spectrum just repeat state department talking points verbatim. There’s some outliers like Chris Hedges and Vincent Bevins, but they’re extremely rare, and generally not employed by the big name outlets like AP news and such. In journalism, if you exhibit even a semblance of a backbone, you lose access, and hence your job. So, it’ll be “regime” this, “Hamas-run hospital” that, “BuT at WhAt CoSt” and so on.
I wish they would do that but I guess they’re afraid of losing their jobs
That’s what happens when you tie so much of human survival onto employment and capital. Slaves.
This is a nation that has a “presidential anthem” - you know the things that normally only exist in monarchies because the head of state is the state.
I don’t even have to dive deeper into the “american civil religion” than this to get my point across.
“L’État, c’est moi.”
There are an army of sycophants getting paid to make sure he doesn’t talk to any actual journalists
The “journalists” who get access to him are there specifically because they probably won’t do that, under fear of likely going through several years of completely illegal but still life-ruining legal and personal hell for themselves and their families.
Isn’t the American justice system dandy?
Slightly tangential, but I posted a link to this video I saw which is just a wild ride of how broken the systems are against the working class.
https://lemmy.zip/post/65067336
Part 2 should be on youtube in the next couple days. I watched it on Patreon and it’s even worse, the amount of corruption on display by the police is wild. Redacting their conversations to protect themselves, violating the law after being shown what the law is, etc all to protect a couple dudes and a corporation.
God I’m begging to be in front of this man for 10 minutes
I work with dementia patients all day. It would be trivial to navigate his psyche into saying pretty much whatever
Everybody knows that everybody feels that way. The unspoken words are louder than whatever garbage this abomination spills from its face hole.
Take heart, MC Donald’s has too many calories.
Sometimes it takes a courageous soul saying out loud what everyone already knows to be true, for the crowd to finally act on the knowledge. Like when the emperor had no clothes.
If they did, there is a good chance their entire network would be blacklisted from the White House and it’s staff entirely. I have to believe there are at least a few good journalists in the bunch who are suffering through for the sake of doing journalism.
Are real journalists even allowed near him?
On the other hand, reporters of integrity have been difficult to find ever since they started being able to spew their opinions as entertainment reporting, rather than actual news reports.
