"Extremist Republicans have been enabled by media coverage that tries to split the difference, and treats what is essentially a hostage crisis created exclusively by one side as a normal, two-sided partisan squabble. Indeed, our top political reporters now insist that the onus is on Biden to solve the problem."
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Due to federation, attention/traffic from Mastodon is (mostly, but not entirely) organic. Things hardly go viral here because the requirement for that would be to post a piece of content that is so valuable and universally agreeable that it becomes an imperative for everyone to boost. This is a rare beast and the average daily news just doesn't cut the mustard in the Fediverse.
Let's say, the average CSM user expects the search/suggestion algorithm to be right 95% of the time. But the algorithm actually manages a whopping 98% percent. Where does the surplus go? Allocating it to the user has no benefit and, in fact, will only raise his expections. Instead, the smart strategy is to fill those 3 extra slots with content from a business user, who is next in line for winning a giant teddy bear.
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in journalists covering the 2024 campaign. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
This report from the Washington Post is getting there. Have a read of it and tell me if you see what I mean. https://wapo.st/41yXOmI [Gift link, no paywall]
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Still Banning Journalists for Simply Doing Their Job
Wired reporter Dell Cameron was permanently suspended Wednesday after interviewing the man who hacked conservative activist Matt Walsh’s Twitter and email accounts
Cameron’s account was hit with a permanent suspension for supposedly violating Twitter’s policy against distributing “content obtained through hacking that contains private information,” according to Rolling Stone
#Twitter hypocrisy makes clear that a major cultural shift has occurred that nobody is really asking about.
Back when the Divine Comedy was written #hypocrites were consigned to the 6th of ten levels of hell. Obviously, practicing hypocrisy has lost some of its stigma.
I mean, the is NO REASON anyone of #moral fiber should still be on that website. But there they all are. #Journalists, watching their fellows get banned … essentially eating their own by staying on. Incredible.
I’d love to hear thoughts on the cause of this decreasing stigma of #hypocrisy.
@LeftistLawyer
Isn't it just another effect of the death of shame?
Shame is feeling bad due to social stigma, and the things which historically resulted in social stigma for good (e.g. handicaps) and bad (lying, cheating, stealing, and being a hypocrite) no longer do, and therefore no longer incur shame.
When there's no cost to a behavior, people will persist with it.
In Oklahoma, a sheriff was caught discussing ways to murder journalists and lynch black people. If anyone tells you that fascism isn't alive in America, they need to wake up. Because it's here... and it's spreading.
@stopgopfox where do you think Hitler got his ideas from? He wasn’t just coming up with ideas out of thin air. It all stemmed from the early Jim Crow laws. To craft legal discrimination, the Third Reich studied the United States. America in the early 20th century was the leading racist jurisdiction in the world. Nazis were interested in, looked very closely at, and were ultimately influenced by American race law. And from that the Nuremberg Laws came into being.
God I love my no algorithm feed on here.* The news, commentary, humor, art, nerdists, photography, cooks, bakers, and cheese make it amazing. Keep up the good work everyone. Oh and let me know if I should be following anyone in particular. I'm greedy that way.