The ‘Gulf of America’ feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media | Margaret Sullivan
The ‘Gulf of America’ feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media | Margaret Sullivan
The president punished the AP for choosing its own language, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The press must show unity
It might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another.
But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment – and the extent to which news organizations will stick together in each other’s defense, or will comply with the powerful for the sake of their own access.
Even more broadly, it is about Donald Trump’s wide-ranging effort to control the media and be able to spread propaganda and interfere with the flow of accurate information.
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he's blitzkrieging the media, making so much stuff happen at once, no one can keep track
Classic Russian tactics... 'flood the zone with sh*t'. Adopted by Steve Bannon & co.
Intent is to make everyone so tired they give up.
Manufactured consent.
shit
They can just get the summary for Project 2025 and start checking things off. It's not a mystery unless they're being wilfully ignorant.