They love the word “unprecedented.” They bemoan our “polarized politics” & reminisce about the days when politicians reached “across the aisles.” Then, when it happens, the media barely notices.
Again, much of mainstream media is trying to frame this election around historical norms, and it just isn't normal. As you indicated, most media outlets are more interested in a scoop than in recognizing what this unusual alliance symbolizes about unity. It's not much different from what motivates Fox News: viewership and advertising dollars. "Give them cake!" Seeing Harris and Cheney joining forces was inspiring. I sincerely hope it's enough to win the day.
Thanks for posting this, Susan. Watching the Liz Cheney clip again makes me soar in a way I *never* would have expected under different circumstances before this election or Cheney's Jan. 6 hearings. Susan Faludi, another astute feminist observer, also makes a terrific case in a current NYT opinion piece for Kamala Harris as a "civic warrior" akin to FDR with a commonsense approach to policy, a frame much of the media keeps ignoring or undercutting in some benighted attempt at "balance": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/opinion/kamala-harris-donald-trump-security.html
That the future of the world depends on a handful of voters in swing states is mind boggling, sad, enraging, and truly undemocratic. If we are to have a future at all, we need to reconsider the meaning of democracy.
True. But what I am referring to is the obsolesence of a democratic order where countries like the USA, China, and the EU are the greatest pollutors, that interviene in world politics and economy, yet they are only held accountable by a handful of voters in a few states. Why should those voters have so much power over the rest of the world? It doesn't seem fair or smart to do things that way.
I saw the movie “Lee” today and it resonates with the moment. One character asks Lee, who’s recalling Hitler’s rise to power while she lived in France and England, and she says that it didn’t feel like anything. It took so long, you see, and then all of a sudden they woke up one morning and he had taken over Europe.
It feels like the media are in that soporific bubble of not believing what is happening before their eyes, because he’s been at it since 2015, and pass me a drink why don’t you? And then one morning,…
Perhaps journalists worry about their fragile popularity and job security so much that they have stopped reporting and started pandering to their own misconceptions about winning and success.
Salary and fame masquerading as self worth.
It is puzzling to watch them digging their own graves. Our graves.
Again, much of mainstream media is trying to frame this election around historical norms, and it just isn't normal. As you indicated, most media outlets are more interested in a scoop than in recognizing what this unusual alliance symbolizes about unity. It's not much different from what motivates Fox News: viewership and advertising dollars. "Give them cake!" Seeing Harris and Cheney joining forces was inspiring. I sincerely hope it's enough to win the day.
Thanks for posting this, Susan. Watching the Liz Cheney clip again makes me soar in a way I *never* would have expected under different circumstances before this election or Cheney's Jan. 6 hearings. Susan Faludi, another astute feminist observer, also makes a terrific case in a current NYT opinion piece for Kamala Harris as a "civic warrior" akin to FDR with a commonsense approach to policy, a frame much of the media keeps ignoring or undercutting in some benighted attempt at "balance": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/opinion/kamala-harris-donald-trump-security.html
Thanks for that link!
That the future of the world depends on a handful of voters in swing states is mind boggling, sad, enraging, and truly undemocratic. If we are to have a future at all, we need to reconsider the meaning of democracy.
Couldn’t agree more. We should start with that undemocratic Electoral College.
True. But what I am referring to is the obsolesence of a democratic order where countries like the USA, China, and the EU are the greatest pollutors, that interviene in world politics and economy, yet they are only held accountable by a handful of voters in a few states. Why should those voters have so much power over the rest of the world? It doesn't seem fair or smart to do things that way.
I saw the movie “Lee” today and it resonates with the moment. One character asks Lee, who’s recalling Hitler’s rise to power while she lived in France and England, and she says that it didn’t feel like anything. It took so long, you see, and then all of a sudden they woke up one morning and he had taken over Europe.
It feels like the media are in that soporific bubble of not believing what is happening before their eyes, because he’s been at it since 2015, and pass me a drink why don’t you? And then one morning,…
Everyone must vote. We can’t let this happen.
Once again. Well said.
Perhaps journalists worry about their fragile popularity and job security so much that they have stopped reporting and started pandering to their own misconceptions about winning and success.
Salary and fame masquerading as self worth.
It is puzzling to watch them digging their own graves. Our graves.
I think you’re correct.