BTTT
I was going to start a new thread entitled “War on the Media” or some such (similar to the War on Universities thread) but decided this thread can serve as a catch all on the subject. Also, there is a thread on Paramount/CBS capitulation as well… which could/should possibly merge with this one too.
Trump has sued various media outlets for perceived inaccuracies or biases, and has used his position as president to pressure outlets he dislikes by interfering in their business operations, launching investigations, and threatening to revoke broadcast licenses or funding for public broadcasting.
Fake news, enemy of the people, Trump’s war on the press is unprecedented… this new McCarthyism is a threat to Democracy as we know it. If he’s not assaulting public braodcasting, cutting funding, he’s sueing CBS or any number of media outlets, journals, periodicals, cable networks… you name it. Labelling it all “Fake” news.
He’s successfully got longtime shows and anchors like 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley, Leslie Stahl, et.al. at odds with the higher ups at CBS and Paramount and so on.
The thing is, those higher ups and those broadcast corporation owners and those media moguls are all fucking 1%ers and beholden to mega bucks and want their tax breaks, and favours from the administration… and the last thing they want to do is get into some long drawn out court case and piss off advertisers, and alienate the maga base (who watch more TV than liberals and progressives - prove me wrong on that assumption, please).
So at the end of the day, all of those entities will gladly turn “State run” and keep their place in the pecking order of the new authoritarian order. It’s easy to see and even easier to research how the exact same thing happened in Nazi Germany, Communist China and in the former Soviet Union and in today’s Hungary and in Moscow.
The jig is up. Or is it?
