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Is this the genesis — or denouement — of progressive media?
In 2019, I wrote the following in a piece titled, “Here We Go Again: The Corporate Media Is Ready To Repeat 2016:
The corporate media is in an abusive relationship with Donald Trump.
No matter how many times he attacks with claims of “fake news,” and calls journalists the “enemy of the people;” no matter how worked up networks get over how he treats them; no matter how many times it appears as though they are finally gaining the courage to stand up to their abuser, the mainstream networks just can’t get seem to muster up the courage to quit him.
Have they not learned anything from 2016?
It’s been nearly six years and two presidential elections since then.
Sadly, nothing has changed.
Now that the convicted felon is making a comeback to the Oval Office, the mediasphere is all abuzz asking “What happened?” and there are no shortages of postmortems of the Democratic party and Vice President Harris’ campaign.
While there is certainly blame enough to go around, the for-profit corporate ratings-driven media has consistently failed to do its job of calling out mis- and dis-information (aka lies) in favor of political personality horse races.
