• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Oh, suddenly she can move quickly on something when there’s political cover to do what she actually wants.

    Unbelievable corruption. And the liberal media is going to be tripping over themselves to talk about this like it’s some complicated issue, rather than straightforward political corruption.

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      4 months ago

      The “liberal media” is not “tripping over themselves to talk about this like it’s some complicated issue”.

      The Washington Post called bullshit:

      U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling is a remarkable win for Trump, whose lawyers have thrown longshot argument after longshot argument to dismiss the case. Other courts have rejected similar arguments to the one that he made in Florida about the legality of Smith’s appointment.

      Cannon’s decision comes as Trump is preparing to be formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election, with the Republican National Convention beginning in Milwaukee on Monday.

      The legal theory that Smith was illegally appointed and funded has generally been considered far-fetched. Trump’s legal team didn’t adopt the argument in court until conservative legal groups pushed it.

      This is as far as they can go in saying that “this decision is unhinged” while still maintaining their aura of objectivity. They’re not going to do it explicitly in the main article, that will come in the opinion pieces that will be released in a few hours, surely

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        4 months ago

        Nowhere do they explicitly connect this to her political ideology. That’s exactly my point, they’re soft-selling it.

        The liberal media (no quotes needed, they’re corporate neoliberal) refuses to actually call a spade a spade.

        This is not a critical article, this is just them shrugging and being like “Oh, well, it seems like tenuous grounds for dismissal but thems the licks.”

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          Without intent to offend, perhaps neutral reporting isn’t for you. They reported all the facts and leave you to come up with your own opinion, which is a mark of high-quality journalism.

          They are a news agency. They are not here to tell you what to think of the news. You want your news to tell you what to think. I want my news to tell me what happened and give me the information necessary to form my own opinion.

          If they said explicitly or implied that she did this because of her ideology, even if that is likely true, that would not be unbiased.

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            4 months ago

            There is no such thing as neutral, unbiased reporting. Believing that there is is a mark of media illiteracy. Making the choice not to discuss the obvious conflict of interest is a choice, it is a form of bias. Journalists cannot be unbiased, that’s not a possibility with the job.

            We should not be allowing a dismantling of our democracy because “you have to be fair to bothsides”.