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Neural Foundry's avatar

Outstanding breakdown of how institutional capture works in slow motion. The brilliance of the Weiss appointment is that it launderes advocacy into "balance" while sidelining actual reporters with deccades of institutional knowledge. What makes this especially troubling is the pre-screened audience designed to gaurantee softballs rather than scrutiny. When legacy media organizations abandon their own standards to chase perceived neutrality, they're not restoring trust but actively destroying the last credibility they have left.

Michael Captain's avatar

Makes me nauseous. We could trust them once.

Tom Durkin's avatar

Meet the new Fox Entertainment, subsidiary of trump enterprises

ISOequanimity's avatar

I hope that equal time will be allocated to covering the murder of USMC vet Jake Hieu Quoc Nguyen. I had to go to The Independent to learn that—on the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed—Nguyen was shot to death in Texas, run over, then thrown to the side of the road like a piece of trash. Presumably, it wasn’t legacy headline news because it raises inconvenient questions: Where were the presidential tributes and promises of posthumous medals? Why didn’t JDV visit his devastated family? Where was the financial support? Jake’s family had to resort to crowd funding to cover his final expenses. Why wasn’t the Texas national guard activated to restore law and order? Texas has more than 4K gun deaths per year. It’s more than 10% of the horrific national total. In this case, the three suspects being held for the murder of Jake Hieu Quoc Nguyen are children, aged 13, 14, and 15. Where did they get a gun? https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/marine-veteran-dead-uber-texas-b2823887.html. https://www.gofundme.com/f/jake-hieu-quoc-nguyen. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/marine-veteran-uber-shooting-texas-b2847366.html

Maureen Staley Cary's avatar

Two women who have sold their souls.

Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Dark and gloomy network. Mr. Dickerson as you know is leaving. Do you know if Mrs Kirk is having an affair with the Vice President? That is what everyone is saying. I don’t believe it . His wife seems to be a nice person. Independent media such as your article is well written. I will continue to watch as veteran of the U.S. military a bureaucratic committee took away my medication I have been on for more than 40 years. It had Tylenol in it. I guess they believe I will catch autism that is lie and not funny. Stay away from What’s App Nigerian scammers on the loose also in a sexual portation thing . Ai refuses to do anything. Don’t give or donate to Senator Schumer either his quote meta is fine as his daughter works there. I find this disgusting! There is a deep fake going on my YouTube channel. @ Mr. Elon x 32. His picture is on my television. The Tesla team for real decided to follow me I must inform what the pay walls cost.

Ellen Berman's avatar

Bari Weiss has shit on her nose … she’s up Trumps corrupt ASS!!!