"The Guardian's US arm has used controversies at other outlets – like Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos blocking the paper's planned endorsement of Kamala Harris – to generate spikes in contributions. When Trump marveled that 'in this term, everybody wants to be my friend,' The Guardian blasted out a fundraising email saying 'Trump, we don't want to be your friend' and urging readers to contribute a year-end gift.

#Trump #media #Guardian #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos
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"Remember when Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos spiked the paper’s planned editorial board endorsement of Kamala Harris and then Bezos piously insisted that endorsements demonstrate bias and his publisher William Lewis claimed that refusing to endorse constituted 'a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds'? I do!"

~ Jamison Foser

#Trump #media #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos
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https://www.findinggravity.net/p/the-washington-post-just-endorsed

Joyce Vance announces the development of a new venture, Democracy Index, affiliated with the Contrarian:

"The Democracy Index is a project that will use the expertise of lawyers and political scientists to track developments in Trump 2.0., based on facts and transparent analysis. At heart, it’s a proposal for civics education, something whose restoration is near a dear to my heart."

~ Joyce Vance

#Contrarian #WashingtonPost #DemocracyIndex #democracy #media
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-democracy-index-and-the-contrarian

@wdlindsy Of course the Grauniad is less bad, and not corporate owned. But don't expect trans people to ever give them a penny. I am still bitter about their climate failure back in 2009.

@martinvermeer I'm all for supporting less-than-perfect options that nonetheless ally themselves with me and others in pushing back against the growing fascist right.

@wdlindsy @martinvermeer falling into the category “the perfect is the enemy of three possible.” The sources for objective journalism are sprouting out all around us. What a time!