EnchantedHickie

Cynical Lefty. Media Watcher. Calling On True Journalists To Call Balls & Strikes Like They're Supposed To. Democracy Is On The Line.

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[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

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[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

I would like to see journalists begin to treat the manufacture of confusion by the Trump government as basic to its style of governance. Instead of a suprising discovery, a consistent pattern. Instead of a sad sack whose bumbling leads to confusion, confusion as political method.

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@rachaelmbade #dizzy

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@Alissanyt @AGSNYT @deanbaquet @patrickhealynyt This is a serious journalistic question that deserves an answer, Alissa. Please. #RIPjournalism https://t.co/moMmETa4fi

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

sometimes i'm truly stunned by what i read in NYT.

today's example: front-page piece abt how in 2001 the Taliban were willing to surrender to the US, but the US refused.

the amazing part? George Bush's name is never mentioned once (!!) in the story; https://t.co/uBVIzYL5NP

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@hunter_Vulpex New fan in NOVA. You're sizzling, Hunter! Hopefully OnlyFans survives.

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@DaddyZayd Beautiful bearded straight babe Jackson Smith gets blown and swallowed. Cam savors all of it....

https://t.co/6RpJYbf8xH

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

The days when a Democratic president could easily fill his Treasury Dept with Wall St alums are over. So why do so many of Joe Biden's top national security appointees have close ties to defense contractors? https://t.co/BMOxGZSYUf

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

i found the dumbest sentence of the week:

<Despite calls for national unity and bipartisanship, President Joe Biden and his top aides have declined to give the Trump administration credit on the nation's COVID-19 vaccine rollout > ABC NEWS

feast on that nonsense.

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

cousin says God will forgive Trump

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

didn’t think I’d see an attempt to Both Sides Trump’s murderous mob w/ Dems passing massively popular Covid relief bill

but there you have it

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

I don’t understand coverage like this: media assumption these people have *any* political constituencies

we’ve seen same coverage w/ Ivanka for years, as if she’d be a political shoe-in

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@seungminkim Size is everything.

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@HotlineJosh #idiotsdelight

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@CleveWootson Please tell us somebody at WP gets this, Cleve? https://t.co/bW3JxD0jup

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

this is very bad that DC press is treating as totally normal when a US Senator criticizes (yes, first Black) Vice President for giving a TV interview—none of the content is criticized. just the fact it was given

this
is
not
normal; https://t.co/IvL9ll5MHI

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@ShaneGoldmacher @jdawsey1 @RoigFranzia Please understand what serious journalistic malpractice this is, especially from the paper that once hosted Bradlee, Woodward & Bernstein. For shame. https://t.co/fTWU2k0PsJ

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

RNC chair Ronna McDaniel “is as guilty of spreading the lies that incited a violent mob on January 6th as Donald Trump... and she should be reminded of that for the rest of her career in politics.”

My mini-rant tonight rebutting the WashPost whitewash:

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@MyKidsMomBB8 @EricBoehlert @dionnesearcey

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@RexChapman Be careful, Senator. There's botox.
And there's b.o.w.w.t.o.x.x....

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@BBCNewsnight Awful nose job, Megyn.

[EnchantedHickie @EnchantedHickie]

@p_zalewski @Andrew__Roth Perfect. All the cops in the donut shop.

[Piotr Zalewski @p_zalewski]

Pro-Navalny protests in Yakutsk, via @Andrew__Roth

Temperature in Yakutsk right now: -52C.