The Media/Journalism Thread

[DRW50]

More on these Dimes Square headcases who hold so much sway over the current media landscape.

https://mcrumps.substack.com/p/my-own-dimes-square-fascist-humiliation

[Vee]

I don't even know who these people are tbh. I've literally never heard of it before, it is not that influential in media outside some deep corners of lower Manhattan. I've heard of Red Scare, but not these people.

It is interesting that this mess involves Peter Vack formerly of ATWT and Rockstar Games' Bully though, who I last saw performing hardcore porn in an indie a few years ago.

Edited August 9, 2022 by Vee

[DRW50]

The various Caseys have interesting careers, I guess...

The Thiel backed groups and the Yarvin groups all operate on various fringes and often seem to just be there to try to demoralize and also to tell people who only care about "vibes" and nihilism that it's cool and hip to be a hatemonger. Dasha for instance got put into Succession, a very "hip" television show, in spite of having no acting ability, no looks, and the charisma of a dead tree. It is one of those movements I think is heading closer to power now that people like Blake Masters and JD Vance, both Thiel sycophants, could win Senate seats. 

You probably already read this but it is a piece on their ilk from early this year.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

[DRW50]

As the "do something" crowd has said, lack of Democratic response has already led the media to make this a noble GOP cause, with Maga Haberman literally transcribing Eric Trump's words as gospel. I'm not really sure what Democrats could say, which is one of the reasons the whole thing makes me wary. 

[Vee]

I'll just disagree with how the public is perceiving this and leave it at that. Not everything the doomers say is real and happening in the mainstream, and while yes, plenty of press are practicing GOP stenography while trying to fill column lengths until DOJ comments, the onus in the public eye remains heavily on Trump, not Democrats, despite Republican demands for explanations. Whereas for guys like the usual Do Something brigade, they always need an outrage point to fix on and act like it's the prevailing wisdom. Their entire trade is finding (or inventing) a way Dems have fùcked up and how they, the loud white guy (usually), can fix it. Waiting on DOJ means they can act like 'Dems are screwing up again!!' with little to no evidence, as Pelosi, etc. have all commented adequately.

And when DOJ does comment, this will all go away and they'll find something new to complain about and forget this existed.

Edited August 10, 2022 by Vee

[janea4old]

 

 

[DRW50]

 

[DRW50]

Shameful. They are so giddy.

Well said by  Sherrilyn Ifill:

 

[Faulkner]

 

[DRW50]

The dead  end leftists who like Trump because he was "funny" and completely apathetic and vile at all times (like them) remain such a malice.

[DRW50]

 

[DRW50]

What a surprise that smarmy, bro-to-the-end Chris Hayes, who sadly had to miss his former pal Tara Reade's big award for Russia loving, yukking it up with some of the dumbest people in existence like Ben Dreyfuss. Still stuck in 2016 when he claimed Hillary was  to the right of Trump, still showing us how cool and funny they are as they hee hee and haw haw over Trump.

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by DRW50

[Vee]

It's more that Feinberg, like most of the ex-Gawker kids, went all in on Bernie in '16 and have never recovered from that or Gawker's collapse (and it's never really recovered either, and won't last in its new form). As one of the comments notes, it's about something else: If they admit Trump is an aberration and uniquely dangerous and unlike other presidents, they have to admit Hillary Clinton and 'cringe libs' or 'boomers' were right. A huge portion of the burnout leftist psyche is invested in never, ever doing that, which leads most of them to drift to the right. It's an ego thing.

Edited August 13, 2022 by Vee

[DRW50]

 

[DRW50]

For once someone at CNN actually tried to be a journalist, grilling grifter Andrew Yang.