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Summary

MSNBC, CNN, and major newspapers like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times are softening their once critical stances, citing fear of retribution, business pressures, and audience polarization.

This shift has drawn backlash, with critics warning that neutrality risks undermining journalistic integrity in the face of Trump’s autocratic tendencies.

Meanwhile, Fox News is thriving, reaching record ratings.

As the media faces dwindling resources and public trust, experts argue it must choose between challenging authoritarianism or losing credibility entirely.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago

It’s a fail. There’s no battle. You failed at your core job and are plotting your acquiescence.

You failed the people.

This from an industry absolutely whored to the advertising dollar. An ad in your products is a sign of shame for both of you.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Get ready for China-level misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh so you think it will get better? 😋
I'm pretty sure China doesn't have the amount of misinformation Americans are exposed to.
Chinese misinformation is much more focused, and not all over the place, not even Chinese propaganda or people likens Xi to a God reborn, as Christians do with Trump.
The misinformation is more like North Korea. With the difference that in USA the real information is also available. Which is why only about half the US population fall for it, where in North Korea it's probably 80-90%

The American media have failed completely, normalising Trump and normalizing crazy like denial of scientific facts and normalizing malignant narcissism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

"Shifting," as if this hasn't been happening since he rode that fucking escalator. That was what, 296 years ago..?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

They could pivot to actually covering the news without carrying water for fascists, or they could take the election results to mean people want them to carry more water for fascists. Gee, I wonder which one they'll choose... 🤔

[–] [email protected] 38 points 17 hours ago

The media is not journalism, there is no journalism anymore. It is all corporate entertainment and propaganda. These news outlets don't report "news" they report the narrative their billionaire owners want to be reported. It's been that way since they got Ronny's FCC to repeal the Fairness Doctrine. These fuckers don't make money if we are at peace, they don't make money when the economy is good they don't make money unless the story bleeds. They don't give a fuck if Trump won or lost or how old Biden is, all they care about is how they will make the most money they can.

Trump is just the next evolution, we have seen it before with people like P.T. Barnum.

That's my opinion anyway.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I love this quote, thank you. Helps with perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I feel like we could use a modern-day Winston Churchill, or Walter Winchell.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

How could for-profit media ever survive this? They're incentivised to move with the flow in order to maintain profit whether or not this flow leads in the direction of truth or democracy. I have a feeling that for-profit media isn't able to to fulfill the role of media required for a working democracy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Time for that media to go as bankrupt as their principles.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 19 hours ago

“Cowards who sanewashed him at every turn taking the cowards’ way out by not reporting true things in hopes to curry favor with the people who will hate them regardless.”

[–] [email protected] 84 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They weren’t that critical of Trump in the first place

[–] [email protected] 26 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

For all the "we shouldn't give up before we've started to fight" that we got from the media after Bezos made clear he was bending the knee before the election, the media sure as shit wants to give up before fighting.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 19 hours ago

Should have thought about it before giving him so much favorable press.

The leopard are yearning faces.