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All it took was a seven-minute video by an independent journalist to uncover the big lie at the center of Katie Britts State of the Union response. One journalist. On TikTok. Not legions of reporters and researchers working for legacy media outlets like The New York Times or NBC News.
Jonathan Katz thought something sounded a little fishy in Britts speech so he did what all good journalists should do: He started to dig around. Less than 24 hours after the Alabama senators speech, Katz posted a fact checking video to TikTok that gutted the core of an already widely panned speech. Not only that, but it also raised important questions about why the rest of the media seemed to take Britts claims at face value.
Journalism is supposed to be about seeking truth and reporting it without fear or favor. The best journalists are curious and relentless about asking questions to get to the heart of something. Do they no longer teach this stuff in journalism schools? Because very few journalists had any questions about the Britt speech.
The initial coverage (not to be confused with the outpouring on social media) failed to even mention her odd, scary presentation, where she used a dramatic whisper voice to make halting statements from her kitchen. Its almost like the reporters didnt watch the speech but instead relied on a transcript to do the reporting.
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maxrandb
(15,393 posts)You know, just like Cronkite. He always left it to the viewers to do the research.
Blue Owl
(50,578 posts)misanthrope
(7,436 posts)Money changes everything and people don't like to hear the truth.
senseandsensibility
(17,224 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 12, 2024, 07:06 PM - Edit history (1)
wasn't all over this? Seriously, the corporate media is not interested in investigating Rs this election cycle. The reasons aren't even important at this point.
keithbvadu2
(37,044 posts)Submariner
(12,515 posts)When Cheney sent a pallet of $9 billion in cash to buy off warlords, stacks of $100 bills, it just disappeared in the hands of Cheney's company Halliburton/KBR. There was no accounting. Who got the dough?
Then months later stories started popping up about Texas and Alabama shipyards being flat out busy building private yachts, and Montana ranches were being sold and made into down-sized Ranchettes, including mansion builds in Texas and Oklahoma.
The Bush Cheney junta got away with all of it. The press never explored the story.