News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.

News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.

There was a shocking and incredibly important story on the front page of the New York Times last week. As reported by an A-team of journalists including two Pulitzer Prize winners, the Times warned its readers that Donald Trump — if returned to the White House in 2025 — is grooming a new team of extremist government lawyers who would be more loyal to their Dear Leader than to the rule of law, and could help Trump install a brand of American fascism.

You say you didn’t hear anything about this? That’s not surprising. The editors at the Times made sure to present this major report in the blandest, most inoffensive way possible — staying true to the mantra in the nation’s most influential newsroom that the 2024 election shouldn’t be covered any differently, even when U.S. democracy is on the line.

  • mystik@lemmy.world
    61·
    8 months ago

    There is not going to be a mob at a voting booth, or at a government building, in a way that matters.

    It’ll be done by people not taking action. It’ll be done by installing people sympathetic to fascism installed to positions where they have the authority to approve or enforce (or not enforce) policies. It’ll be done by people saying “oh, that’s fine it doesn’t affect me” , or "people will never allow it "…

    Some of the things that people are allowing lately are downright evil. But it’s okay because it’s what my church said was good.

    Rich people have been advocating for policies and programs that all but force people to work, at borderline slave wages just to survive or participate in society.

    I don’t see an end to this unless something drastic and uncomfortable happens.