• bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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    12 days ago

    I don’t disagree with you in principle. That is a better way to handle it overall.

    But MAGA will run with “Trump was not allowed to speak on mainstream media”, and I’d argue that’s worse than being principled here. The reality is more nuanced.

    • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
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      11 days ago

      Except even if everyone and their youtube podcast covered it in real time…

      MAGA will just say it wasn’t covered.

      And use AOC clips to show she said it shouldn’t be.

      So why not cover it responsibly so when the ones on the cusp of learning the truth, can find it.

      There’s no reason to cover it live and un-fact checked.

      I would gently argue back that they will lie no matter what. So why publicise the lies as if they are real facts? Why pre-empt everything in prime time to just show uncontested propaganda?

      Why not cover it on the nightly news at 11 as the event it really is?

      The echo chamber will be on CBS and Fox anyway. I didn’t/haven’t/won’t watch it… did he say the lamestream media won’t carry him? That the dumb-o-crats don’t want him heard?

      Give the people who are just trying to avoid politics and watch their show a break and report on it responsibly during the news. Let them hear the jokes after and look it up, to find it was reported on and covered responsibly.

      Don’t let repetition of lies and baseless accusations be the earworm that becomes what people not plugged in to all this think is the truth because it was aired unchallenged.