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[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It has become quite evident that much of the main stream media is for trump

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

Just look at who they are owned by. People just as weird as he is. Not the good weird though. The nasty kind.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ironically becoming the fake news sources Trump has been screaming about since 2016.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

You mean the ones that did publish leaked information on Hillary?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

The circus gets more clicks than policy debate

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Mainstream media is for drama. And Trump is a drama machine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A Trump presidency is good for ratings and that's all they care about

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That's a high-school level analysis.

The reality is that the media companies are small parts of much larger organizations that will benefit from Trump's impact on worker rights, taxation, home ownership, environmental regulation, and more.

If Fox News team at a net loss of 2000%, it would still be worth it to Murdoch.

NBC is owned by Comcast, whose major shakers include JP Morgan, Vanguard, and more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or they didn't want to give him persecution fodder so he can say the election is invalid because he was hacked

Oh wait... He is already saying that