Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

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Terry Moran, the ABC News Senior National News Correspondent, recently compared Trump's influence on the Republican Party as being comparable to that of Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany and the Nazi Party.

"‘Fight for Trump, fight for Trump, fight for Trump.’ Not, ‘Fight for America.’ He has the Republican Party as a personalized power like we have not seen. It’s a Caudillo, it’s a Caesar, it’s a Fuhrer. We don’t see that in this country. We do now.”

Just for full context... ABC News is a subdivision of ABC, which in turn is owned by the Walt Disney Company, who also owns Lucasfilm. Just some random trivia for you. :sneaky:
 

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On the continuing story of San Francisco deciding to rename all their schools, at great expense. The schools can't even open but making sure the likes of Paul Revere aren't having schools named after him, for reasons that are provably false, is the board's priority.

This is an interview with Gabriela López, head of the school board. What's amazing is how bad her replies to questions are. I've seen chatbots that have more varied and intelligent responses. She just non-answers. It's abundantly clear she's unused to any situation where she can't bully the other person or end the conversation and can't handle any back and forth. She seems to have no idea how to deal with a person who's asking genuine questions and can't be canceled out of asking them.


I think my favorite part is where the guy points out their reasoning is provably false, and they refused to have any actual historian look at it. Her response is that she doesn't want to have a conversation where their work is discredited. Runner up is when he points out they canceled Diane Feinstein for once replacing a Confederate Flag (which it turns out she didn't in the first place) but kept a mayor who did the same thing and asks what standards there are for that. Her answer? "I think that points to the criteria that they created and who they felt fell under that criteria." What does that even mean?
This isn't media/journalism cringe though. Journalism did a decent job here showing that the politician is shit.
 

Bear Ribs

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This isn't media/journalism cringe though. Journalism did a decent job here showing that the politician is shit.
Well that's a fair critique. I was more looking at journalism revealing cringe than the journalist being cringe itself, which thread would you recommend for that?
 

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Maybe it's own thread, or maybe it was covered in 5 minutes of hate news?
 

Bear Ribs

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Maybe it's own thread, or maybe it was covered in 5 minutes of hate news?
Eh, did that (with the driveway story) and the story was reposted here anyway, that's what made me decide this should go here. Really there's so much overlap between media cringe and 5 minutes of hate I'm wondering if we need both.
 

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Eh, did that (with the driveway story) and the story was reposted here anyway, that's what made me decide this should go here. Really there's so much overlap between media cringe and 5 minutes of hate I'm wondering if we need both.
They're the reverse of each other. Media cringe is supposed to be when the media/journalism is cringe, hate news is decently reported news about something that makes your blood boil.
 

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They're the reverse of each other. Media cringe is supposed to be when the media/journalism is cringe, hate news is decently reported news about something that makes your blood boil.
Media cringe:
Guy talking about peaceful protests while a building burns down in the background

2 minutes hate:
Media story calling out cnn for calling protests peaceful while buildings burn down in the background.
 

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Now that impeachment is over, we made an Oopsie and we probably got that entire story about a Cop being murdered by a fire extinguisher at the Capitol completely wrong.

This and all the doctored evidence.

I can't believe how blatant the corruption is...or how little one half of the spectrum cares.

I don't think there can be reconciliation or unity with these people. I mean, if my side pulled stuff like this, I'd be shouting about it. They're cheering it on. They support open corruption so long as it benefits them, and how can I peacefully coincide with people like that?

This country has some deep, deep divides going on and it's only getting worse.

These people need to pay for the dishonest bullshit they're pulling.
 

Cherico

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This and all the doctored evidence.

I can't believe how blatant the corruption is...or how little one half of the spectrum cares.

I don't think there can be reconciliation or unity with these people. I mean, if my side pulled stuff like this, I'd be shouting about it. They're cheering it on. They support open corruption so long as it benefits them, and how can I peacefully coincide with people like that?

This country has some deep, deep divides going on and it's only getting worse.

These people need to pay for the dishonest bullshit they're pulling.

this is why I think an even stronger and madder and angeirer populist revolt is going to happen in 8-10 years.
 

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