@accuracy2020

Voters deserve to see the candidates debate without corporate media biases and favoritism.

 Washington, DC, United States
Joined January 2020
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BREAKING: Coronavirus and Tonight’s Debate: “Now do you get it about Medicare for All?” accuracy.org/release/breakin… @bellvisuals
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Alan McLeod: "The @NYTimes, @WashingtonPost and @WSJ's reports are all based on fundamentally untrustworthy actors who refuse to go on the record." #RussiaBounty fair.org/home/in-russian-bou…
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"... The information on the Russian bounties appears to have been both minimal and vague, with officials refusing to show any corroborating evidence or the documents they claimed to have, and were unable to link the accusations to any concrete, real-world events."
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"Despite this long history of lying and advocating a violent & aggressive foreign policy, [media have] allowed Bolton to frame himself as a whistleblower trying to stop the lawlessness of an out-of-control Trump admin." #TheRoomWhereItHappened #BoltonBook fair.org/home/in-the-name-of…

In the Name of Anti-Trumpism, Media Elevate a Lying Warmonger

In their zeal to once again expose Trump as an all-around bad man, corporate media have elevated someone who should be condemned by a civilized society.

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See also "#JohnBolton is telling the truth, but let's not forget his horrible, dangerous career" theintercept.com/2020/06/18/…
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"The same reporters, think-tankers, & lawmakers who spent the primary season preening as spendthrifts never bothered to ask about [trillions of dollars] for Wall Street firms, defense contractors, and high-income tax cuts." #MedicareForAll #CorporateMedia jacobinmag.com/2020/06/medic…
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Sam Husseini: "The prospect that a [journalist's] source can maintain their anonymity after placing false stores ensures that it will happen again and again." #CorporateMedia #disinformation fair.org/home/should-media-e…
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Jeff Cohen: "It’s fascinating to see pundits on #CNN, #MSNBC & other networks now discussing 'systemic racism' after they’d spent months during the Democratic pres. primaries in panicked overdrive propping up 'the system.'" #CorporateMedia #BLM #protests commondreams.org/views/2020/…

Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism | Common Dreams

Let us name the system: "racial capitalism."

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"Tech Billionaires Are Rescuing Our Candidate" might not be an inspiring campaign slogan. #JoeBiden #Election2020 vox.com/recode/2020/5/27/212…
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Maritza Perez (#DrugPolicyOrg) on the need to end militarization of police, overpolicing, & the #WarOnDrugs: "This bill [#JusticeInPolicing Act] really does fail to imagine what public safety could look like." #BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor fair.org/home/we-should-be-c…

‘We Should Be Committed to Decriminalizing if We Want to Help Communities of Color’

"I think this bill really does fail to imagine what public safety could look like. That's our biggest problem with it. They're not listening to people on the ground."

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Confederate states declared bluntly that they seceded to preserve white supremacy and the "servitude of the African race." Contrary to their defenders, #ConfederateFlag and #ConfederateMonuments are celebrations of #racism and slavery. #BlackLivesMatter theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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Una Mullally: (1) "Early on in the Trump era, people talked about the 'red meat' being thrown to the WH press corp, as they scavenged over the latest gaffe... Soon, all you have is a succession of crises, and very little information." #CorporateMedia irishtimes.com/opinion/we-ne…
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(2) "Accepting plummeting standards in media, possessing a pathological deference to posh bullies, being ignorant of one’s history, accepting inequality as some kind of natural law, celebrating buffoons, and a blithe & arrogant exceptionalism is the real downfall."
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"Act Aggressively" "Heavy Police Presence" "Deploy" #Protests #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #PoliceBrutality #CorporateMedia fair.org/home/top-16-euphemi…

Top 16 Euphemisms US Headline Writers Used for Police Beating the Shit Out of People

  “After Curfew, Detroit Police Act Aggressively to Disperse Protesters Who Refused to Leave” (Detroit Free Press, 5/31/20) “Minneapolis Officers Use More Aggressive Tactics Against Protesters...

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Branko Marcetic: "If tens of millions of liberals simply switch off and fail to resist the next presidency with the fervor they brought to Trump’s four years, it could end up much worse." #JoeBiden #Election2020 #Protests #Resistance jacobinmag.com/2020/06/joe-b…
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Ralph Nader
@RalphNader4 Jun 2020
Those who are urging peaceful protest instead of tumultuous protest should ask why the media never covered over a year of peaceful protest through city after city led by @RevDrBarber called the Poor People's Campaign.
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Danielle K. Kilgo: "#DakotaPipeline & anti-black #racism-related #protests got legitimizing coverage less than 25% of the time and were more likely [than #WomensMarch & #antiTrump protests] to be described as disruptive & confrontational." #CorporateMedia commondreams.org/views/2020/…

Riot or Resistance? How Media Frames Unrest in Minneapolis Will Shape Public's View of Protest |...

Too often journalists contribute to a troubling hierarchy by adhering to industry norms that work against protest movements that aggressively challenge the status quo.

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Norman Solomon: "While #AmyKlobuchar has occasionally been subjected to media scrutiny of her record as a prosecutor in Minnesota, she has routinely enjoyed favorable coverage often sliding into outright puffery." #CorporateMedia #vicepresident commondreams.org/views/2020/…

Amy Klobuchar, Minneapolis Police and Her VP Quest | Common Dreams

When Amy Klobuchar was running for president, corporate media served as her biggest political base.

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Trump's idea of free speech: If you criticize or correct something I've said, you're censoring me. #TwitterFactCheck #TrumpTwitter truthout.org/articles/trump-…

Trump Threatens to “Close” Twitter for Fact Checking His Tweets on Voting

Social media sites regulate their own content, and Trump’s claims about free speech violations are inaccurate.

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Joshua Cho: "While it took two & a half months for the authorities to finally make arrests in the killing of #AhmaudArbery, #CorporateMedia were much quicker to follow the time-honored practice of besmirching victims of #racist violence." #BlackLivesMatter fair.org/home/media-smeared-…

Media Smeared Ahmaud Arbery After His Lynching

While it took two and a half months for the authorities to finally make arrests in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, corporate media were much quicker to follow the time-honored practice of besmirching...

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"While it’s been months since #COVID19 struck the US, our employers and the gov't are STILL not protecting us nurses & our patients. Despite having months to produce more #PPE, the #Trump admin & #Congress have refused to get us the protection we need." accuracy.org/release/employe…
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