Summary
Elon Musk’s address to Germany’s far-right AfD party, where he downplayed Germany’s Nazi past and criticized multiculturalism, has sparked global alarm.
Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, called the remarks “incredibly dangerous,” warning of their potential to embolden right-wing extremists and threaten Jewish security worldwide.
Critics highlighted Musk’s alignment with far-right ideologies, including his Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration.
This is the part the American press can’t seem to learn. They’ve appeased and both-sided these dangerously bigoted fools for so long that they’re incapable of actually changing their coverage strategy.
We all have eyes, it’s the job of the press to tell us what we’re seeing and why, not tell us we didn’t see what we all know we saw. Cover Nazis like they’re Nazis.
Yeah but this is more profitable. Remember, the major news orgs like Fox News are controlled by people like Rupert Murdoch. They benefit from this.
But I’m not sure why it has to stay that way. Reality doesn’t have to be less profitable than bigoted fantasies, and news was never really meant to turn a profit anyway. Regardless, Fox News and Murdoch properties are a lost cause in my opinion. I care more about the traditional press that calls themselves free and fair but hasn’t acted that way in years.
Reality is always going to be less profitable.
Traditional journalism is dead. It doesn’t pay nearly enough to survive these days, not to mention the stress from being attacked by politicians and their followers.
Can it change? Yes. But that means taking down the oligarchy and capitalism.
Funny enough, I was just reading a book that went over, in part, journalism in late 19th century America.
It’s… probably never been great. Yellow Journalism was a term that arose then, after all.
It is a problem we should address, I agree! Just… maybe honest journalism wasn’t all that lively in the past either, and the population was just less capable of parsing that than we are.
The honest journalism of the 20th century was an historic outlier.
Unfortunately I think you’re probably right. I still have some hope left in the tank for new outlets like 404 Media and Zeteo, but in general I think you’re right.
Ever heard of capital? It literally creates ideological narratives for profit under a system called capitalism.
After repealing the fairness doctrine and the conglomeration of news networks into multinational corporations, profit is now all that matters to them.
All those campaign bribes which corrupt our politicians and prevent them from doing things to materially improve our lives? Mostly going right into the pockets of news corps as ad revenue.
It’s a dangerous downward spiral of misinformation, gaslighting, and grifting.