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The thing that I think most people don’t realize, is that American media is 100% in support of the government being “fascist” or whatever they’re doing in DC right now. And the media landscape will only become MORE divisive with the recent round of mergers featuring the Oracle people. Cause at the end of the day, the media just wants us all to hate each other. If we’re too busy hating each other; we won’t have the desire to actually organize a G strike
The shareholders who control the media directly profit off clicks on news articles. Divisive times and chaos drive clicks.
Newscorp / Paramount / Comcast DIRECTLY PROFIT FROM A CHAOTIC TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
Yes, the NYT is the same paper it was in 2003.
Not sure why this is news when they’ve done it before and still support it. The NYT has always been pro-imperialism. And they support queerphobes too.
decided not to publish to protect US troops
Bullshit, the Semafor report (arc) said they received these leaks before the operation began when it still could’ve been cancelled if someone put a spotlight on what they were about to do. If anything, by withholding this information from the American people and allowing this reckless operation to go forward unimpeded they helped the Trump administration put these troops in harm’s way.
This was not about protecting the lives of US troops or anyone else’s, this was about protecting the power of the United States government to inflict violence wherever it wants to no matter who is in charge of it or how stupid or cruel their motivations are.
It was about the press protecting themselves from any trump backlash.
The government claims it left Congress out of the loop to prevent leaks, and there was still a leak? Was Hegseth fucking around on Signal again?
Fun fact, Snowden decided to leak to the Gaurdian over NYT because he saw the Times kill a story on Bush’s warrentless wiretaps in 2006 and knew they couldn’t be trusted.
Nuance matters here: sometimes outlets hold details to protect lives, but they should be transparent about what they withheld and why—accountability + safety can coexist.
