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Why are we accepting reporting on tweets as a journalism?
Yeah MAGA reacted to the 60 minutes, but so what? One can find similar reactions on any topic, there's nothing new that we learn by reading this. It just manufacturers outrage on the other side.
Twitter is the official mouthpiece of the trump administration though.
Seems to be the mouthpiece of anyone trying to argue anything nowadays. you can always find a tweet supporting any argument you wanna make.
That's the whole point: Bread & Circuses, Part Duh©
For now. It will be state sponsored media shortly
This could very well be one of the first times a large swath of cable tv viewers and MAGA heard about Gaetz allegations of giving hardcore drugs to child prostitutes, so seeing their reaponse is interesting.
MAGA people avoid all mainstream media except 60 minutes on CBS?
A large number of Americans prefer to get news from Cable TV. Especially the elderly and poor.
The biggest cable news network by a huge margin is Fox News with more than double the second place, MSNBC, views.
CBS isn't on Cable, it is a Broadcast TV network but it is among the highest rated broadcast channels, even higher than Fox News, due to CBS also covering sports.
So while CBS is less popular as a news network, 60 Minutes is the most popular News Program in the USA.
In 2013 Pew Research said "About one- quarter of American adults, (24%) watch only Fox News, 23% watch only CNN and 15% watch only MSNBC."
And here's some additional graphs for further enrichment of your contextual info
You're welcome for the free sociology lesson.
Right. Cherry-picking kool-aid enthusiasts spreading their knee-jerk reaction on social media isn't journalism. These people are likely not valid representatives of public MAGA opinion, to say the least.
The anti-mainstream media comment in particular turns this whole post so many levels of irony that it's actually challenging to unpack it in a succinct way.
Lol their feelings don't care about your facts
They barely reacted. These maga types aren’t going to watch some video critical of their beliefs which are more akin to religious than political these days
It would be nice if journalism was this honest the last 8 FUCKING YEARS.
It's convenient now. The news media isn't so much biased in terms of left vs right, but rather they're biased in favor of an explosive narrative. Trump provides so many explosive narratives just by his mere existence.
So no, they're not suddenly finding honesty. They're starting to feast on the buffet they cooked for themselves.
Did any of these MAGAs tweet a list of qualifications other than loyalty to Trump? Because that's how facts would work.
Unless the facts don't support another conclusion? How weird.
Their feelings don't care about facts.
If facts make those Nazi flowers wither, shower them with facts.
Pretty sure they are actually completely immune to facts.
Wake me up when they actually melt.
The glaciers are going to melt loooooooooong before the MAGA cult will.
This article is fucked up. No one (likely) here saw the 60 minutes opening, we're all reading about a huffpost article about the response from a bunch of people on Twitter, those might not even be Americans, they might have an IQ of 50, why are they driving the conversation? We're not taking the time to watch the 60 minutes and we're letting huffpost make money off of outrage culture. The content of the 60 minutes is the story and crucially important not the idiots/bots/propaganda responding to it. The shittiest type of journalism is based off Twitter replies and the best journalism is what 60 min is doing
Twitter slams 60 minutes over factual statements!
Better get used to it, what someone says doesn't matter anymore, what you can make people believe was said, and how outraged that will make them, is all that matters.
I'm not saying that I'm endorsing it, but I do think my statement is pretty precise... But also it tries to exploit the phenomenon, to outrage you dear reader into taking action.
Trump will adjourn the Senate and the House and get to appoint without confirmation.
The Constitution says the president can adjourn Congress only “in case of disagreement” between the House and the Senate on when the chambers should recess.
That is how Trump is going to do it.
Well, looks like it is already starting. I fully expected the donvict fans to get even angrier if he won. Just like last time.
I think part of it is that they are now also having conversations in their lives where normal Americans are just fucking done with them. Just because they are enthusiastic about donvict, and gleefully voted for him over the objections of those around them, doesn't mean they are going to just roll with it, and still be friends, lovers, relatives, because "it's just politics". Some people are just getting cut off:
So?
I mean . . . this is nothing. This is just the kind of article you can expect for at least 3.7 years. You wanna dig your teeth into a second turd circus administration, feel free. It won't change a motherfucking thing.
The corporate medai has failed so spectacularly they're just staring up their own asshole at this point asking each other what they think.
This is that "liberal news media" that MAGAs keep yammering on about. The one that's owned by six corporations.
Meh...no it didn't. Maga people don't watch 60 minutes. A bunch of X bots reposted a bunch of bot links.