How Canada’s media manufactures sympathy for the landlord class
"..landlords are wealthy families owning more than one home, small businesses operating dozens of units, corporations holding hundreds of buildings and tens of thousands of apartments, & powerful financial investors buying up hundreds of thousands of units."
👉 "Tenant advocacy organizations estimate that 40,000 people are fraudulently evicted every year in Ontario alone."
Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.
Given that 20% of the population think that witches exist, I think this shows that you were desperate to come up with a story idea and not that confusion over the issue is a challenge for Dems. #media
“In a fair world, in a just world, the mainstream media would be covering these cases with the weight they deserve, with at least some of the intensity they have devoted to Biden’s age, how much milk has cost under his presidency, or how the withdrawal from Afghanistan was executed.”
“But we don’t live in a fair world and while the media needs constant and intense criticism and oversight, the likelihood of them getting better at their jobs is remote — at best.
So the task falls to the opposition party. That is not ideal but it is where we are.”
#RWMedia, & most of MSM #media, have helped poison the brains of voters. The outlets have bashed Pres Biden, eclipsing what they did to HRC, while giving #TFG & Republicans undue credit:
"That’s right: A flat majority says that economic conditions in our country are “poor.” Even though they simultaneously say that their own lives are going pretty well."
Poll stories are easy to do. Lay out the numbers, find a poli-sci professor to comment on them, and you’re done. But when that’s the substance of a #news outlet’s #political coverage, who’s up and who’s down like it’s all a big wacky game, the impact of politicians’ decisions get reduced to their effect on the numbers.
@Athenae digs into how election-year media builds entire news cycles around a glut of polls that misinform us.
The Georgian parliament approved a divisive "foreign influence" bill that sparked weeks of mass protests.
@dw reports: "Critics have called it a threat to domestic freedoms and the country's aspirations to join the European Union. They have also drawn comparisons with comparable rules introduced in Russia in recent years."