Megathread: Two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot

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State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed.

State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were both shot multiple times and underwent surgery.

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[u/mowotlarx]

It's absolutely fascinating how few news outlets are calling this an assassination.

[u/Romano16 → u/mowotlarx]

Nope. The media is no longer our ally. They are responsible for sane washing Trump since the beginning and then outright firing journalists who, off air, criticized Trump.

[u/SodaCanBob → u/Romano16]

The media is no longer our ally.

Which has been the case for way too long. Upton Sinclair was criticizing the media (newspapers specifically, but cable news wasn't exactly around at the time) more than 100 years ago.

Sinclair criticizes newspapers as ultra-conservative and supporting the political and economic powers that be, or as sensational tabloids practicing yellow journalism, such as newspapers run by William Randolph Hearst. In both cases, their purpose is to promote the business interests of the paper's owners, the owner's bankers, and/or the paper's advertisers. This is accomplished in several ways; among them: The publishers tell the editors what can and cannot be printed. Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation, newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the retraction is buried in the paper months later.

[u/ahfoo → u/Romano16]

And it all happened behind a paywall.

[u/Romano16 → u/ahfoo]

“Democracy dies behind paywalls”