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In An Attempt to Attract More Right-wingers, “Liberal” CNN Tacks Even Further to the Right
There’s a convenient “either/or” fallacy that many engage in when referring to the media.
There’s right-wing hate media that maligns everything not promoting faux grievance, outrage, and fear, pandering to a overtly republican base.
Fox so-called “news” is an example of this. So are One America News Network (OANN), Sinclair Media-owned stations, Murdoch-owned newspaper The New York Post, and scores of internet sites, like Breitbart; The Epoch Times; The Blaze; The Daily Caller; The Washington Times; The Washington Examiner; and Meta, the social media site formerly known as Facebook.
Joining them are 1,500 right-wing terrestrial radio stations that can be picked up coast to coast.
Millionaire-funded, they provide middle-class and poor audiences convenient scapegoats, usually minorities and Democrats, on whom to blame their problems so they don’t turn on the ultra wealthy and corporations guilty of shipping our manufacturing jobs overseas and exploiting tax loopholes.
Then there is the small pool of progressive media that exists mostly on the internet, satellite radio or certain streaming services like Roku.
Free Speech TV is an example of this, as is SiriusXM satellite radio’s Progress channel.
But there are the mainstream so-called “liberal” media outlets, like CNN and MSNBC, which are corporate owned like Fox, and in business to turn profits.
Corporations are by nature right leaning because the wealthy CEOs and boards of directors behind them don’t want their taxes raised, so they support republican policies that exclusively enrich them.
There are several serious problems at the core of this, stretching back several decades, across several federal administrations that relaxed telecommunications’ broadcasting and licensing regulations.
The result is the dearth of a truly progressive media infrastructure that can compete with the titanic infrastructure the millionaire- and billionaire-backed right-wing media has been able to construct.
These right-wing outlets have done such a successful job hammering home the lie that…
