Carly Novell
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Carly Novell
@carlynovell.bsky.social
media relations @ Media Matters, views my own
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Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.
Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing
Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term lo...
www.mediamatters.org
June 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The truth *cannot* win in this kind of media environment. People can’t and won’t access the truth, and they use whatever kernels they get to reinforce their existing biases and narratives. Stuff like this shows me just how doomed we truly are
The other thing that disgusts me about the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni thing is that masses of people reacting online aren’t reading the NYT article. They’re reading the TMZ article. They don’t even know the facts, and the ones they do know are just making it worse for her.
December 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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Thanks to social media algorithms, seemingly apolitical interests like weightlifting/video games/MMA fighting/dating have become a pipeline to right-wing politics through the "manosphere." One researcher told me, "If we don’t do something about this now, we’re messing up kids":
Inside the Network of Manosphere Influencers Who Have Pushed Young Men to the Right
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM