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In the days after the White House released a readout of Donald Trumps July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine
Trumps reelection campaign and the [RNC]
dumped millions of dollars into Facebook and Google ads to send a counter-narrative coursing through the internet. In this alternate reality Trump was the victim, not the perpetrator
He was fighting, not encouraging, Ukrainian corruption. And Democrats were the bad guys. (When President Trump asks Ukraine to investigate corruption, went one ad, the Democrats want to IMPEACH himand their media lapdogs fall in line!)
Almost instantly, conservative websites and Facebook pages with millions of followers lit up
creating a kind of a parallel universe in which a reader seeking to understand the days headlines would come away learning roughly the opposite of what the facts
appear to show.
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In response, McGowan (@taraemcg) is
raising $25 million
to establish a for-profit media company
to fill the news deserts, deliver the facts favorable to Democrats that she thinks voters are missing, and counter right-wing spin.
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To make this happen, McGowan is
using her sizable war chest and digital advertising savvy to pay to have her articles placed into the Facebook feeds of swing-state users shes identified as most likely to respond to them, then using that feedback to find more people like them
more at the link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-25/acronym-s-newsrooms-are-a-liberal-digital-spin-on-local-news
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Wish Tara McGowan's effort could target Kentucky! And Texas, where I am.
Wonder if Democrats in states she isn't paying Facebook to ensure her intended audience sees her targeted news stories could follow the various online newspapers and share them?
I am now following on Twitter and hope to help spread the word.
@taraemcg
@davidplouffe
@CourierNewsroom
@vadogwoodnews
@upnorthnewswi
Reporters and Editors
@keyavakil
@colinjones
@LindsaySchrupp
@davisburroughs
@patkreitlow
@MeghanMcCarthy_
Tara McGowan's non-profit
@anotheracronym
@PACRONYM (Pac for digital media strategies re Trump)
calimary
(81,440 posts)calimary
(81,440 posts)And recognizing and learning to use and manipulate todays media.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Such as........
The Copper Courier (Arizona)
See: https://coppercourier.com/
The Virginia Dogwood
Link: https://vadogwood.com/
Both look like nice clean and simple progressive papers to me.......
summer_in_TX
(2,745 posts)Yep.
They don't deal in lies. But they also don't do automatic balance when the facts support one side.