They Still Don't Get It
The press, I mean, even as liberal a news source as Daily Kos:
No, it is not either of these things that cause the press to continue to minimize the criminality of the worst President in history. It is because, due to Republican "deregulation," virtually the entire mainstream press has fallen into the hands of the rich, who see their possession as nothing but a way to continue their stranglehold on the country.
And no, thankfully, sites like Daily Kos do not participate in this malignant misuse of our media, but comments like this one still display an utter lack of understanding of why the press acts the way it does. As I have said many times before, the mainstream press is not the Republicans' dupes, they are their collaborators.
"Oddly committed to normalizing Trump by scrubbing off his hateful and dangerous rough edges, many in the Beltway press continue to play a strange game in which they refuse to describe what they clearly see in front of them. Whether it's the fear of Trump Twitter attacks or the nearly five-decade-long GOP campaign to demonize the "liberal media," newsrooms today nearly uniformly refuse to address the mounting, obvious signs that Trump is a deeply unstable man."
No, it is not either of these things that cause the press to continue to minimize the criminality of the worst President in history. It is because, due to Republican "deregulation," virtually the entire mainstream press has fallen into the hands of the rich, who see their possession as nothing but a way to continue their stranglehold on the country.
And no, thankfully, sites like Daily Kos do not participate in this malignant misuse of our media, but comments like this one still display an utter lack of understanding of why the press acts the way it does. As I have said many times before, the mainstream press is not the Republicans' dupes, they are their collaborators.
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