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White House Embarrassingly Holds 'Press Briefing' Full of MAGA Influencers (gizmodo.com)
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You put out headlines with trump in the title to get the clicks. This is what you've been signing up for and now you're being replaced assholes.

This week, the White House sank to a new low on that front, holding a first-of-its-kind “New Media Press Briefing.” While inviting journalists from smaller, less established outlets to the White House is ostensibly a good idea, that’s not what the administration did. Indeed, instead of inviting actual journalists to the event, the White House populated it with a slew of friendly influencers who were all too happy to kiss the president’s ass and ask White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt the softest of softball questions. It was bullshit questions and bullshit answers all the way down.

Leavitt kicked the briefing off by bragging about the administration’s various “accomplishments” over the past 100 years, er sorry, I meant days. “As I promised at my first briefing as press secretary back in January, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities—not just the legacy media who traditionally has covered this institution,” Leavitt said.___

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The news did some absolute basic level reporting on obvious things. They also promoted him and Republicans to the front page constantly for clicks and to sell ads and glossed over his nazi rallies and downplayed the insurrection and unironicslly have "what people are saying" trash where crazy people are given equal time with rational people regularly.

Media is a huge part of why the shitty parts of society aren't embarassed enough to reconsider their shitty views. Why would they when the media keeps putting someone who matches their stupid opinions on the front page? Why would they question the purpose of doge when the news keeps saying cuts are for efficiency despite never being about efficiency?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah. Failure to regulate broadcast media, and not clarifying social media platforms as broadcast media played a huge role in creating this shit show