The New York Times Biden Vendetta Is Backfiring
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By so clearly showing their agenda, The New York Times and other big media outlets appear to be strengthening the resolve of President Biden and his supporters.
  • EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
    332·
    5 months ago

    NYT has been going downhill for a while now, and their slant lately couldn’t be more obvious. I was a reader for years but ditched my account recently. It’s not even the Biden stuff per se, but just all of the reporting quality became more about shock and drama than actual journalism. They used to be great too.

    • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      I feel like your screen name is an opportunity to point out Harrison Ford saying that when “all of this is over” we can have the “luxury” of examining our actions…

      The whole point of Enders Game is to avoid ethics/morality…

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        41·
        5 months ago

        As someone who was advised against watching the movie, this comment confused the hell out of me. I didn’t even know Harrison Ford was in the movie.

        The character’s name in the book is Hyrum Graff.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      1445·
      5 months ago

      Its Blue Maga, but basically yes. They haven’t been picked up by a nation state yet, but give it a week and book mark this called shot.

      Absolutely Russia is going to take advantage of Biden’s cult of failure. Why wouldnt they? Its the easiest way to secure a victory for Trump: keep Biden in the race.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          1041·
          5 months ago

          You can just keep it to yourself dude. No need to make these throw-away-comments.

          If you don’t know what blue maga is, you can:

          a) look around you

          b) google it

          or even

          c) check out the other links posted here.

          You can also disagree with my assertion that a nation state will pick up on and run with Blue Maga like they did with Red Maga. Its fair to make that argument. I don’t agree with it, but its at least an argument.

          But the sea-lioning. The pretending like a thing is doesn’t exist. It needs to stop.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    75·
    5 months ago

    I don’t know anything about a vendetta, nor do I really care… But let me tell you, there are some very strange people in the comments of this post.

        • Paragone@lemmy.world
          410·
          5 months ago

          Do you reject that in the Trump/Biden election…

          CNN & NYT shut down all progressive issues, and voices that they could, as completely as they could ( & even admitted it later, one of 'em, in an interview, which is where I got their term “shut down” from ),

          …so that ONLY the Biden Institution would be??

          I’d wondered what the hell kind of “journalism” was going on,…

          …then when I found out that it had been deliberate propaganda “journalism” suppressing as much as necessary to push their preferred institution, on their part,

          …and to prevent Bernie Sanders from having any significance…

          Dear, fuck, that’s was low, of them.

          Journalism & what they do are “non-intersecting sets”, nowadays, as seems to be the case with nearly all “journalism”.

          I think that Ground.News is categorically better, but don’t know, for sure…

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      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        1019·
        5 months ago

        Blue Maga or BlueAnon is the phenomenon where die-hard liberals sometimes fall into similar cult of personality, rejection of reality, and conspiracy behaviors that Trump supporters engage in. It’s not an entirely fair comparison, since MAGA is way more delusional, but the parallels are definitely there.

        For example, a recent BlueAnon phenomenon I’ve seen is people claiming that the press is manufacturing the concern over Biden’s debate performance while ignoring recently released Epstien documents that show Trump assaulted a teen girl. In reality, the documents are from an 8 year old lawsuit that was dismissed, and the reaction to Biden is pretty organic. So, it’s not as delusional as QAnon’s satanic pedophile cabal, but it’s still pretty detached from reality, and demonizes the press.

        The Mueller investigation was when Blue MAGA peaked. BlueAnon peddlers like the Krassenstein brothers breathless reported on how Mueller had evidence that Putin had crafted Trump into the perfect Manchurian candidate, and it would soon be the beginning of the end for Trump. These outlandish claims, which often got reported by MSM outlets, made the actual Mueller report (which didn’t prove a Trump/Russia connection, but found President could be charged with obstruction of justice) seem underwhelming, which is why it was eventually labeled a, “nothing-burger.” This Louise Mensch tweet from 2017 is a great encapsulation of Blue Maga:

      • bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
        1125·
        5 months ago

        On Reddit, r/joebiden shadow bans anyone who doesn’t fall in line. If you question Biden’s fitness or faltering polls, you’re gone. And they’re too much of cowards to even tell you that you’re banned.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        1129·
        5 months ago

        Its those 16 downvotes:

        https://www.dailydot.com/debug/blue-maga/

        Its a cult that has formed around the refusing to question of Biden as candidate, his capabilities as candidate.

        Its very very very similar to the earliest stages of MAGA, which found its footing in r/TheDonald. An abject denial of any conversation they don’t ‘approve’ of, cult of personality, abusive, dergatory shaming, brow-beating to those that disagree with them, and most fundamentally: a complete dismissal of objective reality.

        Its how a cult forms. We’ve seen it before if you were on Reddit at that time. Its like, shockingly similar to the earliest days of the MAGA cult.