***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[gry60]

Wild. Buy out media companies, fire journalists, then fill the void with propaganda.



"The instructions were clear: Write an article calling out Sara Gideon, a Democrat running for a hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in Maine, as a hypocrite.

Angela Underwood, a freelance reporter in upstate New York, took the $22 assignment over email. She contacted the spokesman for Senator Susan Collins, the Republican opponent, and wrote an article on his accusations that Ms. Gideon was two-faced for criticizing shadowy political groups and then accepting their help.

The short article was published on Maine Business Daily, a seemingly run-of-the-mill news website, under the headline “Sen. Collins camp says House Speaker Gideon’s actions are hypocritical.” It extensively quoted Ms. Collins’s spokesman but had no comment from Ms. Gideon’s campaign.

Then Ms. Underwood received another email: The “client” who had ordered up the article, her editor said, wanted it to add more detail.

The client, according to emails and the editing history reviewed by The New York Times, was a Republican operative.

Maine Business Daily is part of a fast-growing network of nearly 1,300 websites that aim to fill a void left by vanishing local newspapers across the country. Yet the network, now in all 50 states, is built not on traditional journalism but on propaganda ordered up by dozens of conservative think tanks, political operatives, corporate executives and public-relations professionals, a Times investigation found."

Pre-emptive quote for our "both-sides" friends:

The network is one of a proliferation of partisan local-news sites funded by political groups associated with both parties. Liberal donors have poured millions of dollars into operations like Courier, a network of eight sites that began covering local news in swing states last year. Conservative activists are running similar sites, like the Star News group in Tennessee, Virginia and Minnesota.

But those operations run just several sites each, while Mr. Timpone’s network has more than twice as many sites as the nation’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett. And while political groups have helped finance networks like Courier, investors in news operations typically don’t weigh in on specific articles.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Who's Donell Trump?

Delk’s cousin

 

[jewseejay]

Welp covid hit my industry finally. my company just laid off a bunch of people.

basically all covid related.

pray this **** ends soon man.

its only just begun unfortunately.

preparedness not panic.

stay strong

 

[lobotomybeats]

Trump: “If he (Biden) comes in...the Christmas season will be canceled.”

Melania: “I’m working my *** off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a **** about the Christmas stuff and decoration?”

Biden is a practicing Catholic. Oh and inauguration is a month AFTER Christmas.

 

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[RustyShackleford]

The FEDS charged Delk's favorite rapper. Ole boy was rapping about scamming the Federal government, and Delk related because he lived that life.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

even though im in Canada, unfortunately Hollywood is still in america, so you're bumbling president covid response is really ****ing our **** up.

yall better vote man.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

500... 700... 800,000 deaths

dude discusses these numbers like it’s monetary values somehow he can recoup from losses and ****

Insensitive, vile piece of ****

 

[IATT]

Fox.. news..

 

[RIP sleazyy]

sweeedododo deeeedo deee dee

 

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[osh kosh bosh]

better stay that way.

 

[RustyShackleford]

osh kosh bosh heated today

Welcome to our hell, b.

 

[dacomeup]

osh kosh bosh heated today

Welcome to our hell, b.

Mans sobered up from being wasted off of contrarian takes while he sits in Tim Hortons.

 

[Hahahaha]

It drives me crazy that these **** reporters don’t challenge and correct this moron every time he speaks. How the **** y’all just let him say all this stupid ****?

 

[Christian Pulisic]

Not looking good for Biden.

 

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[gry60]

Not one lie told here.

 

[aepps20]

sweeedododo deeeedo deee dee

I read this post with Bass and in Soulful voice.

 

[gry60]

Fox.. news..

And then, they let their opinion makers aka propagandists aka brainwashers run wild with the story. Now, we got people out there believing more nonsense.

 

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[blastercombo]

And then, they let their opinion makers aka propagandists aka brainwashers run wild with the story. Now, we got people out there believing more nonsense.

Yup. Damage is done yet again.