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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  • notsure@fedia.io
    171·
    22 hours ago

    …duh, has anyone else read project 2025, or, even better, read the history of deutschland around 1933-45, or, good gracious, what were people talking about as nero burned rome, or, caligula debauched anything with a pulse?

    ffs, anyone surprised by any of this has been most heinously disserviced of available resources.

    • notsure@fedia.io
      5·
      22 hours ago

      I want to suggest if you live in a neighborhood of 1/3 acre properties: begin planning to convert the entire unbuilt property to some form of agriculture share and split growing responsibiity with willing neighbors be concerned and give aid to any in need accept that your local community starts the process to change the larger congress a person is not stupid, people are democracy only burns from the base up

      • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        I want to suggest that you start adding two spaces before you press enter if you want your line breaks to be maintained.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Studying the social psychology, the flow of how the third reich happened used to be popular. I guess not, now.