How The Right Wing Noise Machine Buries Biden's Historic Accomplishments

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/02/pete-buttigeig-lists-bidens-extraordinary

How The Right Wing Noise Machine Buries Biden's Historic Accomplishments
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg ticked off all of Biden's accomplishments, largely drowned out by the right wing noise machine.
By John Amato — February 6, 2023


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Speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN, Buttigieg said.

But let's talk about what we have to show for that even just in the two years that the administration has been here, we just saw the latest round of job numbers that came out, record low unemployment, the lowest we have had in more than 50 years.

And, usually, when unemployment is that low, inflation is going up. Right now, inflation is going down, along with unemployment. We're talking about the most jobs created under any president in this period, matter of fact, the president creating more jobs in two years than you have seen typically in four, and coupled with things that Republicans often say that is very important to them, like deficit reduction, historic reduction of the deficit, to the tune of $1.7 trillion under this president.

You look at what's been done in two years, and I think the president is going to be going into the State of the Union speech with a context of extraordinary, historic accomplishment.

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One of the major reasons Biden's accomplishments have been blunted for the public is because the Beltway Media takes its cues from the right-wing noise machine. It's in their interest to sideline all good news under Biden while covering up all the bad news that follows Trump and the MAGA cult around.

We've just had days of insane ranting about a Chinese spy balloon.

Has that helped the country?

Nope.

Has it thrown a smoke screen around the incredible jobs report for January?

Absolutely.

Is this latest nonsense used solely for the purpose of undermining the Biden administration?

Yes.

Fox News used unqualified Trump admin sycophants to run this headline.

Link to tweet

I rest my case.

[cilla4progress]

1. That's the point -

Chaos actors.

We just have to be louder and more effective.

[CaptainTruth]

13. +1000

[Walleye]

2. On the Sunday shows they were interrupting and butting in to repeat Republican talking points

They were never listening to the person they were interviewing, just waiting to break in with, “Well the Republicans are going to say...”

[gratuitous]

3. Saw a clip of Buttigieg with chucktodd

Secretary Buttigieg gave a wonderful precis of Biden administration accomplishments, and the extraordinary challenges the administration faced after the former guy was finally evicted from the White House. chucktodd kept coming back to the question of why all of these positive developments seemed to just float on by, and no benefit was accorded to President Biden.

Buttigieg, who is a far finer person than me, did not reach across the desk to slap chucktodd upside the head and scream in his face, "BECAUSE MEDIA FUCKNUTS LIKE YOU NEVER REPORT ON IT!"

[Walleye]

8. Really, "We can't understand why people keep repeating the GOP talking points we keep repeating"

[cilla4progress]

19. They are lazy.

The journalism profession has taken a steep downturn in professionalism as the criteria has become PROFITS.

Capitalism is going to do us all in.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. The Sunday-morning-promoting-republicans shows are part of the RW noise machine.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Highlights of Pres Biden's 2022 wins...

[Hekate]

11. This, thank you

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Jobs numbers

Historic jobs numbers on Friday barely got covered.

Biden is out there hitting Homerun after Homerun and the announcers are talking about the hotdogs being served in the stands.

[pandr32]

7. "Beltway Media" is how we should refer to the MSM more often.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. "3.4% unemployment is alive, and the balloon is dead"

Link to tweet

[Mr. Sparkle]

10. They have a huge media propaganda network, we have nothing.

At the very least we should bring back the fairness doctrine, so we can reply to their bullshit.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. You are 100% correct. 40 years of unchecked brainwashing.

[CaptainTruth]

16. Common misconception about the fairness doctrine. It wouldn't help...

...because it only applied to (& could only apply to) distribution mediums owned by the US government & leased to content providers.

In other words, it can only apply to broadcast frequencies owned by the US government & leased to TV broadcasters. Because the government literally "owns the airwaves" that broadcasters lease from it, it can set requirements for their use.

The fairness doctrine cannot apply to content distributed via cable, or satellite, or internet streaming, or any other distribution method that's not "over the air" broadcast on frequencies owned by the government, & THAT (cable networks like Fox) is where the right wing propaganda problem lies.

[certainot]

22. dem party or allies need to use AI to digitize and analyze rw radio, real time and in past - MIT

MIT Media Lab did it in 2019 for 2.8 Bil words and that prototype can be used to end the astounding stupidity, incompetence, and irresponsibility of ignoring rw radio for 35 years

no excuse not to. when this is done advertisers and univeresity and pro sports teams will desert those stations it in droves. the ad industry will have to break up the monopoly. and republicans will have a hard time winning any elections

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.07073.pdf

RadioTalk: a large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts
Doug Beeferman, William Brannon, Deb Roy
Lab for Social Machines, MIT Media Lab
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Abstract
We introduce RadioTalk, a corpus of speech recognition tran- scripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2018 and March of 2019. The corpus is intended for use by researchers in the fields of natural language processing, conversational analysis, and the social sciences. The corpus encompasses approximately 2.8 billion words of automatically transcribed speech from 284,000 hours of radio, together with metadata about the speech, such as geographical location, speaker turn boundaries, gender, and radio program information. In this paper we summarize why and how we pre- pared the corpus, give some descriptive statistics on stations, shows and speakers, and carry out a few high-level analyses.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Biden and Harris were here in Philly this past Friday touting the water infrastructure investment

which seeks to promote clean drinking water (they were at one of our water treatment plants) and highlighting a $160,000,000 grant and $340,000,000 loan to my city to get many of the old lead pipes and water mains replaced, as well as replacing pipes going into many schools and homes that still have lead leaching.

Hell, I know the old federal building that I worked in didn't have potable water and they never got chance to replace the pipes/plumbing with ARRA funds, so we had bottled water in my agency that we paid for ourselves (one of those water cooler things).

But BALLOON.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. I've often wondered why American media is so shy about touting their countries accomplishments

I don't mean going full Pravda and elevating the dear leader with exaggerated accomplishments, but for fucks sake, would it be too much to ask that the MSM also hail different positive bills and programs as being good for the country? Period? As opposed to finding a Republican to lie about and denegrade the accomplishment? Spend weeks on negative stories, and maybe one afternoon on some bill like the Inflation Reduction Act for instance.

Sometimes I think that its because its only one party that initiates bills that actually help the country and its citizens. ACA etc...and the other does nothing...other than tax cuts for the wealthy, and taking away rights. And so the executives in these big MSM news outlets decide that if they started informing the public about things their elected government is doing positive for them...... no matter which party is in charge.,....that it would naturally favour Democrats by a large margin. And that doesn't fit with their "both sides" equivalency narrative.

[BamaRefugee]

17. But...but...but we DESTROY them *every day* with snarky Tweets

Personally I think Dems should bottle up the tweets and funnel all of that intellect and verbiage into full frontal attacks on Republicans on media that will actually REACH some of these MAGAmorons.

Otherwise we're like kids throwing snowballs at grownups and giggling about it.

How about a Super Bowl halftime ad Democrats. They're gonna see that! You HAVE the money!

[BaronChocula]

18. POX News has the wind at their backs

Most Americans in general are low info and completely susceptible to POX sloganeering. Their talking points are readily repeatable. One thing I do when I hear a well-intentioned person repeating POX nonsense is nudge them with questions. If they claim "Democrats do it too" I ask them to give me examples. If they say Biden is ineffective I ask them to name the last president who's passed more major legislation in their first two years. Then I suggest that maybe they're just repeating things they've heard from people who don't know what they're talking about. Gently shaming well-intentioned people for their inadvertent ignorance goes a long way.

[Justice matters.]

20. If it wasn't a Chinese balloon, they would say it was because of (wait for it)

Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy and their gullible ignorants would believe them.

[certainot]

21. any analysis that doesn't include RW radio is missing the most important part

at $1000/hr x 1200 stations x 15 hrs/day it's worth $90M/week or almost $5B/year FREE

and they do not have to pretend to be fair and balanced and can repeat constantly without challenge. and it can be locally

the analysts are studying fish without water.

[KS Toronado]

23. I'm waiting for our Government

after finding the pieces of this balloon and analyzing them come out and state "IT WAS A WEATHER BALLOON"
What will MSM report then? "Biden owes China $$$$$$ for balloon"? Will they recap how they got the
public in an uproar over "SPY BALLOON-SPY BALLOON-SPY BALLOON-SPY BALLOON"?

[themaguffin]

24. Yep. Most of the country has no fucking clue what the January jobs #s were

[TheRealNorth]

25. We should be forward looking....

And learn how to use AI in combination with social media on how to flood the zone with OUR messaging. No doubt the Republicans are already trying to figure it out.