The subtitle:
White farmers filed lawsuits to block a debt forgiveness initiative, but the Biden administration is still bearing the blame.
Is this post implying that the New York Times is creating a narrative. It sounds more like they are reporting on the fact that black Georgia farmers aren’t supporting Biden when they should.
“Black Farmers Should Be Supporting Biden, But they’re Not Because of RepubliQan Fuckery” is an accurate title. “Black Farmers Are Mad At Biden” is not an accurate title.
The NYT is keenly aware of the difference. One of them creates the narrative that Biden is losing the black vote for the purpose of separating Biden from the black vote and one of them is accurate.
Good thing “Black Farmers Are Mad At Biden” was not even close to the title…
Because people are absolutely idiots. Not a race thing… Most people of all colors and creeds seem incapable of going more than surface deep on anything. I don’t know when we dropped our critical thinking skills, but I know it will be the end of us. I think this is what Generations theory sort of predicts. We stop caring about facts, logic, etc. We just drive ourselves into hardship until things are so bad that we realize these things have value . That’s my Strauss-Howe pitch of th day. Welcome to the worst part of the seculum.
It’s not about people being idiots, it’s about the NYT helping trump in any and every way possible.
Lots of 3rd parties are complicit. That’s why critical thinking and understanding conscious and unconscious bias is so important. Third parties with agenda are and always will be present. The trick is getting people to understand article by article what is biased or propaganda and how to suss it out. At least the ability to be suspicious without the need to jump to being a full on conspiracy theorist. IDK, it’s just so disappointing.
The trick is getting people to understand article by article what is biased or propaganda and how to suss it out.
Absolutely. Some variation of which has been promoted for 50 years. We’re very, very, very far behind.
There are most likely more people now with sufficient critical skills than ever before as their existence is predicated on the opportunity for self education. The problem currently is that unbalanced aggregations of personal and corporate wealth are capable of yoking the zeitgeist to their ends so that most untethered minds are functionally insane when it comes to ‘political’ considerations. It may seem like there are less cognisant minds out there but the reality is that they are being drowned out more than ever by cynical manipulation.
When did the NYT turn Maga?
I can’t quite pin it down, but somewhere around Biden winning in 2020 and the insurrection in 2021. They must have realized that their dying medium could only survive on sensational reporting - and what better to help that than ever more Trumpian antics?
Huh. Funny i remember posting something about not believing shit you read in the NYT and getting thoroughly scoured for it and yettttt
It takes some time for some people to come around and figure things out for themselves.
I saw a small number of folks posting early on that Israel’s war on Gaza was a genocide and getting dragged HARD for it. I’ve lost count of how many people said I was an antisemite for being skeptical of Israel’s official news releases because “Israel was just defending itself”. Now Lemmy is majority pro-Palestine and recognizes the Palestinian genocide. Looks like a bunch of you were wrong…
Yeah, that’s a Blue Checkmark, that means the opposite of what it used to mean, I’m going to assume none of this happened, it’s not like any of these people can be held accountable for lying to get clicks.
