Autocracy’s commitment to the corporate media is inconsistent.
Leading CNN Jim Acosta is destined to become a barometer of his network relations with Donald Trump. During the first term, Trump’s tough questions at the press conferences gave CNN the authority as an information edition, which was not scared of the president and is ready to defend the principle of accountability. In 2018 Trump reported The Acosta was called “a rude, terrible man”, and the White House withdrew the Press Pastora. Cnn sued Trump and his main assistants on behalf of the Akosta successfully forced the White House to return the reporter his pass.
If once a knight’s battle with Trump was celebrated by CNN, now he became a source of shame. Due to the fact that Trump not only won the second term, but also won the national victory (at least a small one), CNN and other corporate media were completely scared. Last Thursday at the newsletter StatusOliver Darcy, former CNN journalist, reported What CNN CEO Mark Thompson called the trenches and “handed over a sudden and strange proposal to the veteran’s journalist: transfer your transfer to the north and tie it until 2am in Eastern European time.” Now the trenches have a morning show that goes in 10 morning Et. A CNN employee said Darcy: “They want to get rid of the trenches to throw Trump’s bone. The North is a serious proposal if its ratings are one of the best on the network. “
media followed Darci’s report with other cot quotes CNN, which were almost unanimous in being shocked by the network behavior. One of the employees said: “Jim made a career and made himself a name, asking difficult questions and holding power. This included Trump. So it will be interesting to see if such a step has some horrific impact, or sending a message to other shows and EP on how the network wants to interact with this new administration. ” Another employee was “embarrassed” by the proposed deviation of Akosta, noting: “This is like an attempt to calm Trump, which is never so easy.”
On Tuesday, Darcy reported What the day before Trump’s inauguration Thompson held a virtual editorial meeting where he
He suggested recommendations on how he would like the net to illuminate the day of inauguration. I was told that Thompson noted that he wanted his journalists to be prudent and avoided to condemn Trump in advance. He warned against expressing his own indignation, as many of the leading CNN journalists did regularly during Trump’s first term.
CNN change reflects a large transformation in corporate media. During the first term, Trump considered many media outlets to satisfy the folk liberal indignation of Trump. Under the umbrella label “resistance of liberalism” there was a real mass movement, which sought to fight Traumatic through protests and organizing elections. Liberalism resistance had a share of deficiencies – in particular, a tendency for conspiracy theories obvious in more wild assumptions On possible ties of Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but it was also a beneficial popular interaction with democracy.
The main media, sometimes cynically, but also with the help of a real investigation, tried to attract a new resistance liberal audience. In 2017 The Washington Post He accepted the slogan “Democracy dies in the dark.” But even before Trump won his second term, the fighting spirit of liberalism was weakened, weakened by the Biden Administration, which was often untouchable. It is noteworthy that in 2024 approximately 75 percent The largest newspapers of the country are incl The Washington Post. USA Todayand Los Angeles Times– refused to support the presidential candidate. Earlier this month, Message adopted New Mission statement: “An exciting story for all America.” Despite the fact that “democracy dies in the dark” can be criticized for melodramatic and self -esteem, the new credo believes that the newspaper is not engaged in journalism, but is engaged in simple fun.
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The departure from the competitive relationship with Trump is undoubtedly rooted in economic personal interests. As the corporate media consolidation increases, news agencies are increasingly dependent on parental leviatan organizations who are deeply confused in state affairs. This is especially true because Donald Trump was not shy about using his presidential power against the business leaders who challenge him. Last fall, Trump threatened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “lifetime”. Not surprisingly, Zuckerberg has rapidly passed to soothing Trump, creating a Facebook policy that fits the president, in particular, a recent brutal curtailing on the facts’ check site.
The NEW YORK POST reports What “Mother’s Company CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery, made it clear that he wants the network to take a more neutral tone in Trump’s relationship. ” The Washington PostOf course, it belongs to Jeff Belas, one of the richest people in the world whose wide business interests, in particular in Amazon, require a good side of Trump.
Low submission to media such as CNN and The Washington Post It is not only a lesson in corporate control over the media, but also a reminder of the value of independent media. The alliance between the mainstream media and the liberalism of resistance was always shaky and questionable. Even if CNN was more critical of Trump than it is now, it was more friendly to safe centrism than any progressive policy: hence the CNN promotion of russiagate And the continuous increase in Republicans “never Trump”. A lesson that progressive should take is that corporate media are never a friendly territory and to build a strong opposition, you need independent media such as Democracy now!. Propublica and, we dare say Nation.
