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@Nonilex This could be another example of #brokentimes from @jeffjarvis, starting with bothsidisms:

"The Trump administration’s proposal to defund public broadcasting comes amid sustained pressure on NPR and PBS from Republicans in Congress, who have intensified long-running attacks on the broadcasters. The chief executives of both organizations testified before Congress last month in a fiery hearing that played out along mostly partisan lines: Republicans assailed the executives for what they saw as liberal bias, and Democrats argued that the proceeding was a waste of time."

And then having quotes from MTG and someone from the Heritage Foundation, but no one on the pro-funding side. And certainly no discussion of facts, or how unfair the "hearing" against PBS/NPR was last month.

The #BrokenTimes is just trolling us. It dredges deep to find a Trumpist prof, DeSantis henchman Bauerlein, to celebrate "bureaucratic pummeling" of professors and lament "middlebrow" MAGA, resurrecting Western civ.
MAGA Needs High Art, Not Just Kid Rock nytimes.com/2025/04/11/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Trump’s Movement Needs High Art, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Can HelpBy Mark Bauerlein
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#media #journalists #brokentimes #brokenpost

Will anyone with a microphone and access to the administration ask:

Why is it necessary for ICE agents and others supporting MAGA's program of mass deportation to hide their faces with masks and full head coverings?

Why are these raids and roundups being conducted by what can reasonably be described as a secret police force?

This looks to every normal person like an effort to avoid accountability and operate with impunity. Is it?

Here's how you get good social media engagement: always finish your rant on a positive note!

'I'd like to conclude by saying that our system of government, the one created by the Founding Fathers, has proven to be a SICK JOKE on the American people. WHY there aren't more controls on the power of the presidency is shocking to me. How it could have been possible to NOT foresee that a sick and selfish and evil person could one day become president and destroy our country, thus requiring SERIOUS safeguards, is beyond me. On that note, have a great day folks.' - nytimes.com/shared/comment/46l

The New York Stock Exchange on Friday. Bankers, executives and traders said this weekend that they felt flashbacks to the global financial crisis that began in 2007.
The New York Times · Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets PlungeBy Rob Copeland

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.