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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThom Friedman: "...one last bid to use the Big Lie to destroy our democracy..."
New York Times
Thomas Friedman
Nov 10 2020
Excerpt:
It is so corrupt what Trump and his allies are doing, so dangerous to our constitutional system, but you weep even more for how many of their followers have bought into it.
Lies dont work unless theyre believed, and nearly half the American public has proved remarkably gullible, my former Times colleague David K. Shipler, who served in our Moscow bureau during the Cold War, said to me. I think of each of us as having our own alarm and its as if half of their batteries have died. Lots of Trumps lies, and his retweets of conspiracy fabrications, are obviously absurd. Why have so many people believed them? Im not sure its fully understood.
That is why its vital that every reputable news organization especially television, Facebook and Twitter adopt what I call the Trump Rule. If any official utters an obvious falsehood or fact-free allegation, the interview should be immediately terminated, just as many networks did with Trumps lie-infested, postelection, news conference last week. If critics scream censorship, just shout back truth.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/opinion/trump-lies.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
JHB
(37,158 posts)I'm sure you'll get around to saying that yourself someday.
We'll know in four to six months...
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Happy old Thom is writing this now - but many years too late.
A complicit unprincipled corporate media hungry for $$$ and those who worked for it that enabled this gross negligence is the reason these lies have stuck.
TRUTH.
GOTV GA
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)With what is going on? Are you kidding me?
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Biden, AND vote for Republicans in all of the down-ballot offices. These are all of the assholes continuing to enable Cheetolini.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Tired of the corporate media types who want to have their cake and eat ours too.
They are enablers of the current mess we have going on now. Giving legitimacy to minority viewpoints that are nowhere near mainstream.
StaunchDemocrat1957
(66 posts)How real of a possibility is that?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I had and uncle and cousins who were in the forces that invaded Germany. Several said that it was really sad to see German children, who were so brainwashed by the Nazis, who were willing to be sacrificed in a desperate loyalty to a vicious dictator. What is taking place in our nation is analogous. The power of hate propaganda is difficult to counteract since it preys on their prejudices. It primarily feeds their sense of false superiority and righteousness of their cause. They are easily recruited by demagogues.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)gab13by13
(21,303 posts)so good luck getting it to go against Trump's narrative. It is doing just OK so far, IMO, but just talking about election fraud whether valid or not is what Trump wants. The MSM needs to simply keep repeating there is no fraud and I don't see that happening.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,722 posts)Paywall, unfortunately