"I'm sincerely not asking you to take sides, but asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment."

[kpete]

The president also struck a serious note, urging the media to stayed focused on the implications of November’s election. “I’m sincerely not asking you to take sides,” he said. “I’m asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment. Move past the horse-race numbers and the gotcha moments, and the distractions, the sideshows that have come to dominate and sensationalise our politics and focus on what’s actually at stake.

Link to tweet

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/stormy-weather-biden-skewers-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner

[marble falls]

1. Joe Biden: the adult in the room.

[NanaCat]

8. One of the reasons the traitors hate him

Our worthless media is barely at middle-grade Mean Girls level, and they hate it when they 'think' grownups are trying to tell them what to do.

The DSM needs a serious reboot to extend the age range of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. It's the default setting for them--and tens of millions of other chronological adults.

[Omnipresent]

2. If Biden were president when the pandemic hit...

Trump and the republican party wouldn’t shut up about the virus, and blame Biden for allowing covid to infiltrate our country from china.
Somehow Democrats are nothing but “crickets” when it comes to reminding the electorate about how bad the pandemic was, and what wasn’t done to help prevent it.

[CrispyQ]

4. We don't do marketing.

IDK why not but messaging has never been our strong suit.

George Lakoff wrote our problem is that we believe people vote on intellect when a good number of people vote on emotion. We think it's good enough to direct people to our platform page & our accomplishments page while the other side is calling us tax & spend democrats, weak-on-the-border democrats, & baby-killing democrats. They have more successfully defined our side than we have.

Fortunately the younger gen dems realize how important messaging is but we're 40 years behind the 8-ball.

[Omnipresent]

7. If we can message things like, "GM is alive and Osama Bin Laden is dead", then we can also say...

“Trump not only let the virus from china into the country, but did nothing to stop its spread”.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

15. 1 mlion recs! We need compelling "stories" "

that grab people by the heart, and not the head.

[betsuni]

16. Republicans lie and are terrible at messaging. Look at Trump. Absurd messaging. Republicans

open their mouths and out comes word salad.

Media doesn't report Democratic messaging, of course. That's the problem. What are the magic words Democrats could say? Slogans? BS populist promises? No.

[NanaCat]

9. Democrats are not silent about it

The media does not cover what they say about it, which is plenty.

Do keep up.

[Omnipresent]

11. The media or those, "talking heads on the networks", aren't the only way to message the American people...

Do keep up.

[betsuni]

17. Thank you. Republicans have no messaging except for hate and fear.

[Lonestarblue]

3. And Sulzberger of the NYT will just keep bashing Biden because of his arrogance over not getting a private interview.

He’s wealthy enough to sustain the loss of democracy and probably assumes that even a dictator Trump cannot touch him. He may be right personally, but dictators usually are not tolerant of media that prints even the slightest negative comment.

[CrispyQ]

5. Even if Trump doesn't torch him personally, he will suffer.

Trump is a massive failure at everything. He wants to be put on the board of the Fed?

It will be total chaos & everything & everyone will suffer. Business will suffer. The places where the rich live & play will suffer as everything around them starts breaking down cuz the only people in charge will be those who are loyal to Trump.

[NanaCat]

10. Sulzberger is so bloody stupid

That he doesn't realize that no amount of money will protect him from Christian Nationalist traitors if they come into power. He'll be in the ovens as fast as all the liberals Sulzberger hates.

[Voltaire2]

6. NYT pitchbot: Is Biden too old to handle gotcha media onslaught?

We asked several republican operatives.

[Cha]

12. Kick to the frontpage.. TY & Pres Biden

[Prairie_Seagull]

13. I hope this is not to culturally insensative but.

My man.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. I dearly love this good and decent man.

He makes me feel like there can still be hope. Like good things are still possible.

[BoRaGard]

18. "So how is this supposed to boost our profits, Joe?" - Corporate Media, Inc.