lol, Politico

nice to see media has learned absolutely nothing after four years of concrete examples of why amplifying bullshitting racist trolls isn't particularly bright

I see Matt is already on it: https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/1349718942579830786

Outlets like Politico usually can't be bothered to write about things like consumer protection, seriously criticize monopolies, or highlight rampant US corruption in any meaningful way.

Yet somehow they're keen to host a spiteful little bigot's brain farts.

We watched 17,000 talented journalists and editors get shitcanned last year for no fault of their own, and the lesson here is they should have spent more time being ignorant bigoted trolls if they wanted to be taken seriously

and by "leading voice" you mean a billionaire-backed bigot with zero expertise in anything whatsoever whose entire career has been spent pouring salt and facts-optional bile into the wounds of American discourse for his own personal enjoyment and profit https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1349706040040976386

ad-driven US media is so broken. I know that's not unique insight, but it's fucking stunning how oblivious it is to its own dysfunction even after 4 years of trolling bullshit culminated in a cabal of misinformed mouth breathers beating cops to death with US flags on live TV

trolling isn't news or a diverse "view"

you're not broadening people's intellectual horizons by platforming and normalizing bigoted dipshits with zero expertise in anything

this is such complete bullshit to justify ad-based attention whoring https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1349788462736523265?s=20

US news has been on a fast path to idiot infotainment since the 80s. Countless experts and academics warned us about it for decades, giving us detailed blueprints on how to stop it. But we ignore them because inflammatory dipshittery is more profitable than having basic integrity

also what is this bullshit:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/politico-faces-backlash-for-handing-playbook-over-to-right-wing-bomb-thrower-ben-shapiro

Politico is part of a feckless "both sides" US press frequently incapable of calling a duck a duck when it comes to government corruption and corporate malfeasance, now they want a cookie for platforming a trolling bigot

this new @politico statement is somehow even dumber

you "rise above partisanship and ideological warfare" by platforming a racist troll with zero subject expertise beyond inflammatory misinformation?

a good thread on the Politico bullshit: https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1349816124398051345