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A Media Matters report highlights how right-wing media dominance extended beyond politics into sports, comedy and other cultural spaces to affect the outcome of the #2024Elections. #NewsCoverage #SocialMedia #MSM

mediamatters.org/google/right-

Media Matters for AmericaThe right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spacesAs Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.In a new study, Media Matters assessed the audience size of popular online shows — podcasts, streams, and other long-form audio and video content regularly posted online. To do so, we gathered data on the number of followers, subscribers, and views across streaming platforms (YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Twitch, and Kick) and social media platforms that are used to amplify and promote these shows (Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok). Apple Podcasts does not publicly provide follower counts on its platform, so it was not included in the audience data.This analysis was based on 320 online shows with a right-leaning or left-leaning ideological bent. We found that right-leaning online shows dominate the ecosystem, with substantially larger audiences on both politics/news shows and supposedly nonpolitical shows that we determined often platformed ideological content or guests.Key findings:We found 320 online shows — 191 right-leaning and 129 left-leaning — that were active in 2024 and covered news and politics and/or had related guests. These shows had at least 584.6 million total followers and subscribers.We found substantial asymmetry in total following across platforms: Right-leaning online shows had at least 480.6 million total followers and subscribers — nearly five times as many as left-leaning.Across platforms — YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82% of the total following of the online shows we assessed.Comparatively, left-leaning online shows had nearly 104 million followers and subscribers across the eight platforms — nearly five times less.Nine out of the 10 online shows with the largest followings across platforms were right-leaning, with a total following of more than 197 million. The only left-leaning show among the top 10 was What Now? with Trevor Noah, which had 21.1 million total followers and subscribers across platforms.Our analysis — which looked entirely at shows with an ideological bent — found over a third self-identify as nonpolitical, even though 72% of those shows were determined to be right-leaning. Instead, these shows describe themselves as comedy, entertainment, sports, or put themselves in other supposedly nonpolitical categories.Out of 320 online shows, right-leaning programs categorized as comedy — 15 shows in all — had 117.5 million followers and subscribers, or 20% of the total following of all programs we assessed. This category included The Joe Rogan Experience, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, and Full Send Podcast.Right-leaning shows accounted for two-thirds of the total YouTube views on videos from channels affiliated with the shows we assessed — 65 billion views in total. Comparatively, left-leaning online shows totaled 31.5 billion total views.Right-leaning shows use Rumble to expand their audience — gaining millions of subscribers and billions of views for their content.
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

I wrote and submitted this short letter to the editor about cuts to #Alzheimer's research but the window for it being accepted has passed. I was hoping it might get picked up by the #MSM so people whose politics with whom I profoundly disagree might read it and see the damage that is being wrought by eviscerating #NIH -- if they can't understand its implications for others perhaps they could for themselves and their loved ones. Please share as you see fit.

#EndAlz
#NIH
#RFK
#USPol

Every 3.2 seconds, someone is diagnosed with dementia (Alzheimer’s Disease International).Recently, DOGE cut the research staff of CARD, the Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias, who work to alleviate the devastation wrought by dementia. Russell Vought, do you know anyone with dementia? How about you, Elon Musk? Robert Kennedy Jr? You do. Sargent Shriver had Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump? You do. Your father. I do. My father lived with early-onset Alzheimer’s and died at 70 after 15 years of suffering. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 7 million Americans have an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. 55 million people, in 2020, worldwide. Medicines are available that may temporarily delay the progression of symptoms until the disease marches on. Russell, Elon, Robert, Donald: you understand that in eviscerating funding that might alleviate the pain of those you love, perhaps even your pain, you have given up your right to access scientific discoveries that might help you remember what and who you forget.
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

I wrote and submitted this short letter to the editor about cuts to #Alzheimer's research but the window for it being accepted has passed. I was hoping it might get picked up by the #MSM so people whose politics with whom I profoundly disagree might read it and see the damage that is being wrought by eviscerating #NIH -- if they can't understand its implications for others perhaps they could for themselves and their loved ones. Please share as you see fit.

#EndAlz
#NIH
#RFK
#USPol

Every 3.2 seconds, someone is diagnosed with dementia (Alzheimer’s Disease International).Recently, DOGE cut the research staff of CARD, the Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias, who work to alleviate the devastation wrought by dementia. Russell Vought, do you know anyone with dementia? How about you, Elon Musk? Robert Kennedy Jr? You do. Sargent Shriver had Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump? You do. Your father. I do. My father lived with early-onset Alzheimer’s and died at 70 after 15 years of suffering. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 7 million Americans have an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. 55 million people, in 2020, worldwide. Medicines are available that may temporarily delay the progression of symptoms until the disease marches on. Russell, Elon, Robert, Donald: you understand that in eviscerating funding that might alleviate the pain of those you love, perhaps even your pain, you have given up your right to access scientific discoveries that might help you remember what and who you forget.
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OUR COMMON GROUND

"The news channel has nixed or demoted their most progressive anchors, all of whom are people of color. These are the hosts who have drawn the most ire from Donald Trump’s online warriors, according to Dave Zirin of The Nation (2/28/25). They are also some of the few who were willing to air the network’s rare criticism of Israel. In their stead, MSNBC has elevated Democratic Party apparatchiks and a center-right never-Trumper. "
alternet.org/behind-msnbc-s-pu
#MSNBC #MSM #GE

Alternet.org · The story behind MSNBC's purge of its most progressive anchorsBy Luca Gold
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Kyle Memoir 🍉

Dear MSM,

Führer Trump has not ‘pivoted’ on Ukraine.

He has pivoted toward his master like an iron filing to a controlling magnet.

What he's done to Ukraine is a stab in the back.

His aim is the subjugation of Ukraine because he’s a Russian asset to Putin now—the West is dead to him, along with democracy and the US constitution.

Fuck you and your tender, ‘balanced’ nonsense.

Say it properly.

#media#journalism#surrender
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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️

This is the most honest and thorough response to the final transformation of centrist news to propaganda at #MSNBC Dave Zirin may be a political reporter discussing the sports sector of our society, but his insights about journalism’s politics are keen.
#MSNBC #DaveZirin #propaganda #MSM #politicsofjournalism
thenation.com/article/society/

The Nation · MSNBC’s Death RattleThe “liberal” news network is just the latest mainstream media organization to cower before Trump.
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𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙

Today's headline, that overrides my resolution to NOT shitpost for a while, but just absorb.

#WaPo sinks to new levels.

"Jeff Bezos, the second richest person in America, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, announced that the paper’s opinion section would henceforth focus on defending 'personal liberties and free markets.'

"Anything inconsistent with this view would not be published. 'Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.'

"The Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, promptly resigned, as he should."

#USPol #USPolitics #media #MSM #Oligarchy #Plutocracy

robertreich.substack.com/p/its

Robert Reich · It's the oligarchy, stupid.By Robert Reich
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BellingenNSW

Getting Australia out of climate denial?

Get more sympathetic media coverage by involving the blokes from "resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics"
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nature.com/articles/s44168-025

Farmers, investors, miners and parents:
how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences "Holdout groups in Australia can include people associated with political conservatism, the business sector, farming, the resource sector, some religious groups and some sports fans."
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theconversation.com/farmers-in
#climate #climatedenial #RealityDenial #extractivism #industry #MasculineNorms #conflict #msm #media #LoggingImpacts #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateAction

NatureTheorising unconventional climate advocates and their relationship to the environmental movement - npj Climate ActionEnvironmentalist-identified advocates have contributed to high levels of public support for climate action across countries. However, there remain important holdout constituencies that theory and evidence suggest are less likely to be persuaded by environmentalists, especially constituencies associated with resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics. Emerging from these holdout constituencies, though, are some novel advocates for climate action. In this paper we theorise ‘unconventional climate advocates’ as those who combine advocacy for climate action with a social identity that departs from the prototypical environmentalist identity. Using social network analysis we show that unconventional climate advocates in Australia are peripheral to the main environmental movement, that is, the conventional advocates for climate action. We contend that unconventional advocates can broaden the social base of support for climate action, and their independence from conventional advocates – environmentalists – may aid in their efforts.
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David J. Atkinson

@inthehands I agree, it is a worthy vision. I am struggling to understand the method to “put the people they’ve marginalized in positions of actual power, give them actual ownership.” For a publicly owned company, does that mean something like a shareholder revolt? Or hostile takeover? For a privately owned company, the means are even more obscure to me. One thing I think we know for sure is that court ordered sales/breakups, anti monopoly legislation, or state seizures of #MSM property are not viable in the current political reality. Ideas? 🤷🏻

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