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“Our Reckoning With Racism”: The @latimes confronts its past, apologizes for its history of racism, and pledges to improve its coverage of SoCal's communities and the diversity of its staff. 1/ latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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From earlier today: Tense Virginia gun rally draws everyone from Proud Boys to Black Panthers — many armed. #lobbyday latimes.com/world-nation/sto…
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I finished reading the 1776 Commission Report. It claims America is “the most just and glorious country in all of human history”--the nation's great founding truth. But anti-Americans are disregarding this great patriotic truth, the report argues. 1/11 nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/tr…
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You can almost feel the relief of right-wing pundits getting a head-start on scurrilous opposition, their safe space. So much easier, and so much more fun, to make up brand new lies that sting and snap than constantly scrambling to defend a sociopath's chronic mendacity.
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The 1776 Report — which makes sweeping claims about American history — has no actual American historians among its authors. Thread:
Many others are already parsing the report of the 1776 Commission. This much here: It's a propagandist hack job. What interested me were the people involved with it. (They're pretty much who you would expect them to be.)
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I couldn't agree more. My discomfort with how I'd previously portrayed Fox in my own research led me to write this piece for @CJR, where I basically asked the experts on right wing media how researchers should frame the network. cjr.org/tow_center/fox-news-…
Part of the problem is that we normalized Fox News. Reluctantly, perhaps. But we accepted it as the conservative point of view, reflecting that audience. Indeed, we've normalized the entire US media system, which is pretty unusual compared to democratic nations around the world.
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White House and Black Lives Matter Plaza tonight behind barricades on Sixteenth Street:
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Biden needs to reinvigorate the FCC to slow the lies and sedition from Fox and other right-wing broadcasters. Or else the terrorism we saw on Jan. 6 may be only the beginning, rather than the end, of the plot against America.  wapo.st/3oVoTxe
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