• a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We’ve hit the 24 hour mark and I don’t think this thread is going anywhere productive. I think you and I just have some deeply-held beliefs or ethics that are opposed here. For what it’s worth, we completely agree on who Donald Trump is and the horrific actions he’s taken over his lifetime. The lies, the fraud, the assaults, all of it. I do get frustrated that more people don’t see that, but where we split is what we’re willing to see society do to solve it. There’s a lot of complexity there and I don’t deny that there would be benefits to your more hardline approach. I just think it would have irreversible, terrible consequences for our media landscape, and subsequently the entire American constituency, after Trump is gone.

    It’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to find common ground, but I respect your convictions, genuinely.

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      5 months ago

      Fwiw it sounds like we did, in fact, find common ground. If we survive the weak, ineffective, republiQan-tilting media coverage of the election and somehow defeat the looming obvious destruction of all ethics and democracy, we’ll pick up again on how journalists can have a more authentic, less ‘corporatized’ voice. It’s a good discussion.