7) So conservative voices are given special privileged treatment in newsrooms and publishing platforms, while anything that exposes conservative miscreancy is treated like stinky rubbish best shunted out the back door. This is especially true on op-ed pages.
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18) Our publicists tried, too. People took my name down. No one called back. Instead, the subject that really needs addressing – the mass radicalization of young white males around the world – is just flat out ignored. Did you see any cable chatter about it?
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19) I have little doubt that their reluctance is directly related to the fact that I DO directly connect the radical right’s surge to Donald Trump, right in the subtitle. That connection is the elephant in the room. And I gather that calling out its reality is just plain rude.
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20) That’s what happens to actual liberal voices speaking out against the tide of authoritarianism: They are deemed “rude” and shunted to the back of the line. That kind of talk is just “uncivil.” Because we must have civility above all, right?
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21) So when a comedian drops a Truth Bomb on the same authoritarian-conditioned press, then the discussion becomes endless and fevered. And of course it is access-dependent Beltway journalists who lead the charge to shut it down. Eyeliner indeed.
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22) At some point, journalists – that is, the real ones, the folks who take seriously their duty as an institution of democracy to provide accurate and truthful and important information to the voting public – need to stand up and defend themselves against this tide of bullshit.
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23) Because, in the end, that must be our ethos: The enemy is not right or left, the enemy is bullshit. And especially authoritarian bullshit. #30
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