Fucking Corporate Media

:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

… Lester Holt calls Peru “America’s backyard”

… also, TIL FiveThirtyEight no longer exists

Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight, and Nate Silver (and his models) are leaving | Nieman Journalism Lab

That alarm tends to be drowned out by clickbait, poorly-conducted polling, and GOP misdirection/misinformation often shared/promoted by mainstream news outlets:

:thinking: I guess the owners are rich enough not to have to worry about a single, state-controlled news source. However, journalists should understand that would cut their future careers very short, right?

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/newspapers-decline-hedge-funds-research

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Lawrence O’Donnell sums up 45’s history of threats against the network (and himself), comments from GOP leaders, normalizing/uneven coverage, and why the reaction of major media outlets has been :woman_shrugging:t4::

:thinking: I’d substitute “not ready” with “not willing” in the title of the video, though.

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Since yesterday, this is what I see when I try to go to the Daily Beast. Across multiple devices, WiFi or mobile.

Is it blocked in Japan now? Is it blocked outside the US? Does it not exist any more?

works fine here (germany), but if I had to guess I say the problem lies in the http// adress for it, shown in your screenshot. must be some hiccup with your network, trying to reach http instead of https…

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Thanks for pointing that out! I would never even have noticed. Even when I enter https manually in the URL bar (on Chrome, Edge and the default Galaxy browser), I get the same message back without the S in the error message, which is really weird.

Glad to know that they’re still alive and kicking and that it’s just an issue on this side, though! Thanks again!

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