It is strange that the legacy media is turning against anti-lockdown protestors, especially for the ones in China.
In the west, although anti-lockdown protests were condemned, they specifically understood the lockdowns to be bad and claimed that the anti-lockdown protests were causing the lockdowns.
I wonder if this is the media's attempt to maintain legitimacy by taking a more popular position now because being in favor of lockdowns is detestable, or if some other faction among the elites wants to increase antagonism against China for some reason.
this is the media's attempt to maintain legitimacy by taking a more popular position now because being in favor of lockdowns is detestable, or if some other faction among the elites wants to increase antagonism against China for some reason.
I'd say the former. They bank on our short collective memory and the whiplash effect.
It is strange that the legacy media is turning against anti-lockdown protestors, especially for the ones in China.
In the west, although anti-lockdown protests were condemned, they specifically understood the lockdowns to be bad and claimed that the anti-lockdown protests were causing the lockdowns.
I wonder if this is the media's attempt to maintain legitimacy by taking a more popular position now because being in favor of lockdowns is detestable, or if some other faction among the elites wants to increase antagonism against China for some reason.
I'd say the former. They bank on our short collective memory and the whiplash effect.
I tend to agree.