A good read about controlling the media
These conversations have usually proceeded along lines where people ask incredulously how a majority of voters could have believed this or that. Werenโt they bothered that Trump is a convicted felon? An adjudicated rapist? Didnโt his invocation of violence against Liz Cheney, or 50 other examples of his disgusting imprecations, obviously disqualify him? And couldnโt they see that Harris, whatever her shortcomings, was a fundamentally smart, honest, well-meaning person who would show basic respect for the Constitution and wouldnโt do anything weird as president?
The answer is obviously noโnot enough people were able to see any of those things. At which point people throw up their hands and say, "I give up."
But this line of analysis requires that we ask one more question. And itโs the crucial one: Why didnโt a majority of voters see these things? And understanding the answer to that question is how we start to dig out of this tragic mess.
The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing mediaโFox News (and the entire News Corp), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Muskโs X, the huge podcasts like Joe Roganโs, and much moreโsets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win.
an excerpt of course, thereโs moreโฆ