Jay Rosen (PressThink)That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.
It’s honestly hard to believe that even Christianity Today seems to have come around on some of the truth of what is happening before Chuck Todd has.
I’m glad that at least Chuck Todd knows/understands what is happening now and may change course to help protect it. Perhaps he needs to spend a few days with George Lakoff to attempt an intervention and a solution?
Looking back at our history of reportage of white power/white nationalism will provide some additional immediate ideas. WNYC’s On the Media has had some great material in the last few years on these topics:
- Face the Racist Nation
- How should the media cover America’s racist extremists?
- Hating In Plain Sight
- Axis Journalism
One might suggest, “just replace the word ‘racist’ with ‘Republicans'” in these stories, but I think many of them have generally done that for themselves already.
@c Todd doesn’t understand it, though, as evidenced by Rosen in that very piece pointing out that while Rolling Stone kept talking about disinformation, Todd kept talking about misinformation, as if it’s not an actual strategy and is just other naive people like himself being naive. His very use of the word “naive” shows he doesn’t understand what’s happening, too.
@bix Hopefully he’s at least turned the corner a bit…
@c @bix If nothing else he’s going to be heavily hammered by his fellow journalists for the coming month based on some of what I’m seeing today.