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Unnamed TNG skant beefcake · 4w
Things I wish journalists knew * If you report the right-wing dogwhistle, without explaining that it's a dogwhistle, all you're doing is right-wing propaganda * CEO's/powerful people lie, and it's l...
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Reporters will be like "they just really care about parents' rights" as if providing cover for them and normalizing them wasn't about 90% of the job of far-right propaganda

* "They're just public health enthusiasts"
* "They just really care about babies"
* "They just hate voter fraud so much"
* "They just have traditional family values"

Sanitizing a dogwhistle by reporting on it as if it was something to be taken in good faith is doing a lot of work for the extreme right
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Unnamed TNG skant beefcake · 4w
Reporters will just pass on lies from a CEO or a politician "Musk has promised self driving cars this year, omg!" "ChatGPT passed the bar exam! Amazing!" But the following questions are too spicy for journalists to ask: * "Really?" * "Can you prove it?" * "Does a 3rd party also say so?" * "Is th...