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Oh yeah, I know Luzerne very well. They still think the pants-shitter is going to deliver them coal jobs.

 

Still,waiting for the evidence from Hunter Biden’s lap top.

 

Have envied the turkey board the last four years, for being able to give the president the bird. Except this year on Election Day, when 80M of us gave Trump the bird.

 

It'll be two weeks after the announcement of the greatest health care and plans for Infrastructure Week are revealed.

 

I guess everyone in the White House has had Covid and thinks they're immune now.

Trump plans to hold indoor holiday parties at the White House, report says, despite the CDC warning against such gatherings

 

Hobby Lobby has nothing on Target.

 

When does the Slovenian Slut put up the Fucking Christmas Decorations?

 

It's coming right after they finish looking into Benghazi

 

OK. Then I'll assume his first name is Anthony. A. Blinken!

 

Trump friend and adviser Steve Schwarzman recognizes Biden as President-elect - CNNPolitics

 

Someone remind me again why FATUS couldn't even carry his home state. I mean, even McGovern won Massachusetts.

 

Nah. It’s ours. It’s everyone’s job.

Social media platforms, streaming “news” channels and innumerable websites will spew lies and conspiracy theories, and will keep weakening the foundation of reality that America’s democracy needs to function. …

So what, if anything, can the reality-based press do to counter it?

I see three necessities.

First, be bolder and more direct than ever in telling it like it is. No more pussyfooting or punch-pulling. No more of what’s been called “false equivalence” — giving equal weight to truth and lies in the name of fairness.

This battle can’t be fought with facts alone, argues journalism scholar Nikki Usher of the University of Illinois.

The only hope, she wrote, is for mainstream journalism to appeal to passion as well as reason — “providing moral clarity along with truthful content.” Or, as NYU’s Jay Rosen recently wrote, journalism must reposition itself in the media ecosystem, to seize this moment in history to take a clear stance, in everything it does, as “pro-truth, pro-voting, anti-racist, and aggressively pro-democracy.”

In other words, the reality-based press has to unapologetically stand for something. Otherwise, it’s just a pallid alternative to the excitement of burgeoning lies.

And third, journalists and news organizations have to get much more involved in media literacy — working with educators and advocates to teach people of all ages, but especially students, to distinguish lies from truth, propaganda from factual reporting.

This can be an uncomfortable role for journalists because it smacks of advocacy, something that mainstream journalists are taught to be wary of. Still, some organizations and journalists are working on it.

Recently, I was a guest on a call-in radio program on Wisconsin Public Radio, talking about media coverage of the election’s aftermath. Two of the three callers I fielded, though polite, were misinformed. Both were convinced that it’s too early for President-elect Joe Biden to claim victory since the votes haven’t really been counted.

This is untrue. With a few minor exceptions in places that can’t possibly make a difference, the tallies are complete. There is no question that Biden is the unequivocal winner, both in the popular vote and the electoral college.

But I can’t imagine that my responses changed their minds. They sounded dug in. And, remember, these were public-radio listeners, presumably not Alex Jones fans.​

Report facts as facts. Show that falsehoods are falsehoods, not just somebody’s opinion or point of view. Lies don’t deserve equal footing with facts.

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