Why Did the ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Turn Even Further to the Left? An Important Article from the Former President of CBS News
When we use the word "media," we invoke the plural form of the word "medium"-and we are usually talking about a means of communication. In our contemporary times, when we say media we usually mean television, broadcast, print, and digital journalism....
Pointing out the obvious, the essay observes there is a "growing distance between the American people and the American media. This divergence [. . .] is reaching catastrophic levels, and at some point, the American people will figure out that the mainstream media do not like them and that they don’t much like the media’s understanding of the country."
Ya think?
I don't know what to make of this apparent non-sequitur: "Unfortunately, dominant media organizations have bonded with another large segment of the public—one that embraces its new approach. Pulling back from anti-Trump activism could prove commercially harmful.”
I wonder why the article pussyfoots around the major issue: corporate media has gone full retard because of Trump--their failed predictions of his defeat in '16 made their obsessive hate for him permanent, and they want to keep the ratings they inflated by constantly and obsessively ragging on the guy.
I'm going to start using "Adversary class" going forward.
In short: tribalism and polarisation.
Same as in the UK. Same as Australia. Same as France. Same as Canada. Same as New Zealand (not quite as consistent, but still applies). Same as most "Western block democracies".
Funny that.
Though I would argue that mainstream "right wing" parties across most of those countries are more "centrist" than anything, these days...
The media will, of course, demonise them as "far right", but that simply doesn't match reality. It's just that, as you say, the "mainstream" has been dragged so far left, that anything slightly further to the right (i.e. what was formerly considered "normal") is now demonised as basically fascist, lol...