Tornado Alley (PROG)

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The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more—sets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win.

Let me say that again, in case it got lost: Today, the right-wing media sets the news agenda in this country. Not The New York Times. Not The Washington Post (which bent over backward to exert no influence when Jeff Bezos pulled the paper’s Harris endorsement). Not CBS, NBC, and ABC. The agenda is set by all the outlets I listed in the above paragraph. Even the mighty New York Times follows in its wake, aping the tone they set disturbingly often.

If you read me regularly, you know that I’ve written this before, but I’m going to keep writing it until people—specifically, rich liberals, who are the only people in the world who have the power to do something about this state of affairs—take some action.

I've been saying this forever. Repubs have total control of the right wing echo chamber and the dems have never learned to compete. When you feed people propaganda 24/7, they begin to believe it. The MAGAs bought hundreds of Hispanic radio stations and turned it into Spanish speaking Rush Limbaugh's all day and all night. Unless progressives learn this lesson, democracy is toast.

Finally baby steps.....

Lawmakers investigate Soros ‘shortcut’ to buying radio stations before election
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