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gogaman
We are losing to a corpse š š
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZkGkTic7TAc
ToSisPoS
Real journalism died around the same time a couple of planes slammed into a skyscraper.
RowanUnderwood
Yup they sure were brave when it was easy to be. Slightest resistance and they folded like a wet deck of cards
TheDefective
And the only reason we know anything is because of fuckin' fox subsidiary TMZ. Strange days.
Gryzwnt
We need the people who were speed running scientology centers to do the same thing in hospitals in Kentucky
eromitlab
We also used to have elected officials who didn't do this whole Weekend at Bernie's shtick. Our elected officials and their staffs also weren't so goddamn arrogant.
Nim449
or, you know, fascist
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Stuff like this absolutely has happened before
NightOwlRally
Or God forbid, an actual honest set of politicians that don't lie through their goddamn teeth every day of the world
Thisisbullshitalready
We can always hold out hope. He can't last forever...
rossimus
1000 investigative pieces of journalism come out each year, which is how you know about all the many things going on, and because a multi page expose hasn't come out within 24 hours of you hearing about a thing *by way of investigative journalism* you suddenly act like journalism as an institution has fundamentally failed.
On top of that I'm going to go out on a limb and say OP does not subscribe to any newspapers which only makes this complaint that much more sophomoric.
davebarton315101
When the newspapers started shutting down the millennials thought the bloggers would be an adequate source of information, they were wrong. No discipline, no peer review, no editors and no accountability.
bourbonandbaddecisions
The Governor is asking.
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-requests-update-senator-mitch-mcconnell-health/417-b9252baa-29ab-489e-94f1-147aa41e78ed
TheInternetHasDestroyedUs
Should've put him in the ring.
woozle
KamikazeGerbil101
Grimlinnan
DEAD sack of shit.
B0ardski
that's a crime now.
OtisTDrunk
cbale2000
See, there's this thing pesky thing called HIPAA that Bill Clinton signed back in the 90s that makes snooping into peoples personally identifiable health information a big no-no, especially when they're actively in a care facility. Using fraud, impersonation, or other illicit means to gain access to that information would very likely result in the journalist being criminally prosecuted.
mrsdowneyjr
Don't we have a responsibility to know if our elected leaders are capable? We should be demanding answers
cbale2000
Sure, you can demand the answers, but they're not obligated to give them to you, at least under current laws.
Beiki
How about the representative that's been straight up missing for months.
Jamnew60
Mike Wallace has been gone a long time.
captainalphabet
It's insane that actual newsrooms now run under a doctrine of "if they wanted us to know they would tell us."
rossimus
Lots of journalists doing incredible journalism (that none of y'all are willing to pay for these days) but journalism, especially investigative journalism takes *time*. You're so used to things being instantly brought to you on the internet for free that you have lost your capacity for patience.
And we wonder why everything is going to shit...
tachyx
Journalists work for billionaires. Billionaires get paid when you subscribe. Billionaires decide what news you receive.
rossimus
Journalists work for newspapers/companies that are sometimes owned by billionaires. They are exactly as personally loyal to those owners as you are to your boss's boss. Journalists and their editors decide what news you receive, not the owners.. Owners don't meddle nearly as much as the public thinks they do.
Source: worked at a major newspaper for ten years, during which time the billionaire owner stepped in exactly one time over an op-ed, never once over news.
stargrey
They are playing out the movie "Dave" in real life.
OozyRatInASanitaryZoo
An independent journalist named Desiree Townsend supposedly found the 911 call. I'm not on Xitter so I don't know how much there is to it.
https://x.com/Cheering4Change/status/2072425932359438836
RandomGuy12345678910
Best comment from reddit was "Rigor Tortoise"
RonMimnaugh
schrodinger's senator
vaiperu
Weekend at Mitch's
curialis
Would be just happy to have him in a box
antikytherion
I mean the hospital is a decent box. He'll get evicted soon probably but he is finally c o n t a i n e d .
GuysJustWannaFish
Be sure to shake it. Turtles like it when you shake their box
LinemanMatt
Box Turtle š¤
KuldFyt
The instinct to report "both sides" is too strong to allow them to look for evidence one way or the other.
cyno01
25 years ago FOX News made their slogan "Fair and Balanced" and its all been downhill since...
ChiefRunningFridge
They refuse to just take a picture of the fucker. So to me therefore he ded or incapacitated. They could end the conjecture in 5 seconds but they won't for some convenient reason. Mitch is to old for drugs so hes def not in rehab.
JAPONfan
He's not dead until proclaimed dead by doctor which they cannot do until family (or someone with legal power) call to unplug him from whatever life support he's on. So he could rot in that bed for longer than USA exist and still be in the office.
HenryLongfellowIII
They kept the former PM of Israel Sharon "alive" for 5 or 10 years in a vegetative state. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10547657/How-Ariel-Sharon-was-kept-alive-for-eight-years.html (paywalled).
HenryLongfellowIII
He was actually PM when he had the massive stroke.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Old, braindead, and useless, yet still damaging democracy.
Hard to find a more fitting metaphor for his party.
lgkinasen
He's not dead, he's just depressed. Like that other red who'd gone awol for 4 months (except to trade stocks on inside information)
gablestout
I mean, he can't be re-elected, so he's out on January 3, 2027, no matter what.
And Kentucky can only fill the vacancy by special election, which can be held no sooner than 60 days after the governor, plus 2 more weeks to certify.
So you'll have a replacement installed in late September at the absolute earliest, followed by another election in 5 weeks.
ImJustHereAtThisPoint
They're writing about it in their books to be released at a later date. That's the market that disgusts me the most. Just "hey I saw and documented SO MANY CRIMES y'all and I just HAD to tell you, but only in a way that make me money"
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flightstosaturn
Iām not giving John Bolton a pass. He can burn in hell for putting out book instead of testifying against the traitor in chief.
StillScreamingIntoTheVoid
The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
-George Orwell, 1984
Scahrossar
Most of those journalists have been replaced by their corperate overlords. Can't really blame the worker bees, blame the owners who don't want said news.
flightstosaturn
Iām not giving John Bolton a pass. He can burn in hell for putting out book instead of testifying against the traitor in chief.
dirtcreature
Considering how much this is worth to publish exclusively (and must have absolute proof), I'd argue that a lot of people are trying to do exactly that. HIPAA is a real impediment.
Comet260
Capitalism is really a repulsive thing. But "It's the only system that's ever worked!" š
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
Because every attempt at another system in the last 200 years has been sabotaged/attacked by capitalist interest OR were used as a means to seize power by a dictator and never truly intended to help the people.
True socialism has yet to actually be tried.
gamejunki40006
Yeah and it's almost always to rob the people of their resources and land. Which you know, they kind of need in order to have a functioning society.
AngurProne
^^ This one. No one has ever done PURE : communism or socialism or... You can't do these things when there are self interested humans involved. Socialism w no corruption, sure. Never gonna happen. Best we can do is... "Vote for the bus that gets you closest to the desired destination" ALSO. clamor for better bus'. Let's come for a 'fringe " bus, and hope. Also the Dem party freaking out about Mamdani should illustrate how 'not great" our alternative has been. BURN. DIE. BURN. We Go!
Easykehl
Kentucky governor should just call for the special election. Make the GOP sue to stop it and have a judge publicly ask for proof of life under penalty of perjury.
Mitheral
He should just appoint someone. The law requiring a special election is probably unconstitutional.
gablestout
Why? Andy Barr is well ahead in the polls right now. You really want to replace a republican senator without the ability to cast a vote with once that can?
FermentTheRich3000
They cast each other's votes all the time.
gablestout
The Senate has never allowed proxy voting on the Senate floor. A senator has always had to be physically present to cast a floor vote. Only in committees.
BesticlesTesticles
You do realize someone even further to the right of McConnell would probably win that special election, donāt you?
pres465
Not likely and not a threat. Make them spend their money so they have less to spend on Maine or Ohio or Nebraska. No one is expecting to flip a seat in Kentucky.
Goldensands
Someone more vile than that POS exists? And only such a person could ever win? You hear yourself?
SixSixxtySix
manymadmasks
I doubt it for this cycle. And while I'm not pulling for any Republicans, it would be a hilarious middle finger if Thomas Massie won it.
SixSixxtySix
Heās mentioned heād run as an Independent.
waffleresidence
Maybe, but without an election the GOP will be guaranteed at least a neutral seat that canāt work against them. An election is necessary if a fair result is to happen before midterms.
BesticlesTesticles
The special election is a bad thing. The governor of Kentucky is a Democrat. So if there wasnāt a special election heād be able to appoint a Democrat (or at least a moderate Republican) to the Senate.
waffleresidence
Governor doesnāt appoint anyone post 2024 in Kentucky. Itās an election.
Freyja33
True journalism has been systematically strangled and destroyed over the past 3 decades. Almost all news media is now primarily propaganda.
HumanoidTyph00n
Remember how growing up we were shown how certain fascist and communist regimes destroyed bipartisan journalism and used propaganda in its place for their benefit and then our own countries started doing it.
ChicanoBatman
I remember in the 80's when you watched CNN for all the global non biased news coverage. Journalists in the trenches. Of course Walter Cronkite gave it straight up. Seems Al Jazeera was the last of the outlets providing some global perspective before they too lost their way.
WLAFadeaway
Local journalism is what we're really missing.
dogbeachesarethebestbeaches
Like this! Postnewspapers.com.au
LurkingSarcasm
Wait until they realize news comes from tiktok and YouTube now
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
They already have. Which is why a Trump billionaire bro baught TikTok and why you get so many so many increasibgly political adds on YouTube. They've already started controlling the narrative on those platforms as well.
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
And it's not a coincidence that the timeline lines up almost perfectly with the rise of Fox News.
akafluffy
it's spelt faux entertainment news
MrHappySmiles
An upvote of sorts š
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azgrak1
TMZ even has a Washington DC office now. With White House press credentials. They are definitely the kind of outlet that would slip 5k to a nurse for his status. Look down on them all you want but they had a reporter at the gate that Ken Paxton was using when he was going on vacation with his girlfriend. No other news outlet was there.
DorgEndo
I have never wished for a violation of HIPAA so hard in my life
justheretocommentonce
In the us, russia, and china, at least.
PorterPickUp
And anytime a journalist appears whose not part of the 'acceptable' brotherhood they are labeled agenda driven or biased. See Nick Shirley or Matt Taibbi
bufflaobuffalobuffalobuffalobuffalo
Nick Shirley? The right-wing YouTuber who made unsubstantiated claims about the extent of fraud in Minnesota that helped spark interest in ICE enforcement in my city? If youāre calling that Nick Shirley a ājournalistā, then you can, respectfully, fuck off.
PorterPickUp
Thank you for proving my point.
bufflaobuffalobuffalobuffalobuffalo
Proving what point? That heās a journalist? Journalism is about seeking truth, vetting, eliminating bias as much as possible. Nick does none of that. And his actions had devastating consequences for a great American city.
You canāt be that stupid. So youāre just another right-wing troll?
Comet260
Capitalism destroys everything it touches.
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gamejunki40006
Oh that leopard that ate your face was a man eater, not like my leopard who would never hurt -me- ^_^' said before the leopard eats your face.
Comet260
This is what capitalism BECOMES. Always.
silhouettegundam
I hate to break it to you but that is capitalism. Governments create regulations to combat this behavior. But capitalism on its own will always lead to consolidation, control, and destruction of anything in the way, including competition.
theGildedDanMan
Youāre thinking of Laissez-faire capitalism specifically if Iām not mistaken.
doctorId
Also known as capitalism
BHPaperstacks
Love how capitalists, particularly an-caps and libertarians who say socialism only works in theory not in real life are always the first to be like "Yeah, but thats not real perfect capitalism because it hasn't worked out like it does in my imagination." Of course those same people condemn the heavily taxed and regulated kind of capitalism from the 30s-80s, the one that built the mytholgized American Dream of the past that they unrealistically idealize, socialism today.
RiddingBean
Look at you, using a device, infrastructure and a platform that was built by capitalism. The irony. š
vekvok
Shut up, bot.
OwlXiozee
Oof. Bless your heart.
DarkVoivod
Anyone have the "yet you are part of society, curious...." comic available for this idiot?
neithermenoryou
99% of the technology that went into the device and the internet was invented by government subsidized research, then bought out by capital once it became clear they could turn a profit on it.
RiddingBean
And made it better. You think a phone would have a 48MP camera if it was made by government? Same government that is always tried to spy on its citizens??
neithermenoryou
... That makes no sense. Why wouldn't a government that wants to spy on people provide the people with better cameras to make spying even easier? Can't you at least come up with a realistic example? And yes even the 48mp sensors heavily rely on government funded research and taxpayer subsidized silicone fabs.