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    1. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14

      Hopefully this will remain a matter of academic and media studies interest only. But it is worth considering why much of cable news has become a nonstop cheerleading for the US to declare war on Russia, often via a 'no fly zone'.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 14
      Replying to @joshtpm

      My thinking on this is that CNN really first burst into public consciousness with the first Iraq War, so producers of cable news know on some instinctive level that war is good for business.

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    3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I don't think it's mainly that. I think it is more that American society has developed a feedback loop between terrible things we see on TV and what many understand as a kind of global hegemon time out which goes under the label of a "no fly zone".

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    4. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

      2/ One of the most striking things is that a lot of people seem surprised or shocked when someone tells them that means going to war. There's very little lived experience of war with a peer military power, let along a nuclear power.

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    5. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

      3/ So yeah, some of it is that. But I see it more as an interaction between 21st century media culture and military engagements with country's who have no ability to fight back.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 14
      Replying to @joshtpm

      Yeah, that's a fair account. We saw some of this when Biden withdrew from Afghanistan & there was a massive cable news consensus against it.

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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          some of it is just hammer and nail stuff. you see something awful, you need to stop it. and that's not a bad impulse in itself. But you see where it goes.

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        3. Teemu‏ @teemuFI Mar 14
          Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

          When someone says that NFZ is a dangerous idea, way too often the reply is "So, you think it's _fair_ that Russia is..." No, it's not fair, but such is the world that we live in.

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        1. Sue K‏ @suethamom Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          And look who cable networks employ to talk about wars. When do we hear informed voices who have different points of view? I think we get a very narrow slice, often ex-military, who continue to have relatively hawkish views.

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        1. Sue K‏ @suethamom Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          I also think watching this absolute horror show play out, and we’re seeing much more of what’s happening in Ukraine than we saw about Iraq, it feels very morally compromising to watch this and know that there are good reasons why there are limits to what we can do.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Mar 16
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Thirty years of living without any real peer competitors (or awareness of them, anyway) will do this.

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        3. Jennifer M  🇺🇦  🌻‏ @jeninthe405 Mar 16
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          I’d argue that our “knock ‘em down” America’s jingoistic bravado culture plays into this as well. Americans are anxious to show off our “might” without considering how this may bring WMD/nuclear weapons directly to our door. We want to see ourselves the heroes in this story.

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        1. Peter Quince‏ @bassharborhead Mar 14
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Which I honestly, just amazes me to this day. Such blowhardism!

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