All Media Will Be Forced to Choose
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We can learn a lot about what’s wrong with our democracy by examining how the media has split into into three fairly distinct spheres.
There’s the state media—Fox, Newsmax, the Federalist, HughHewitt.com—which have become pure propaganda outlets.
There’s the “neutral” media—the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, CNN—which believe that politics should be covered as a sport with reports about who’s up and who’s down. Extraordinary efforts are made by these institutions to present both sides of every question, even if it means presenting the case for illiberalism or platforming people who the media orgs know are lying to their audience.
Finally, there’s pro-democracy media—outlets which understand that America is experiencing an ongoing authoritarian attempt and that they must stand on the side of small-l liberalism.
But this segmentation is not sustainable. Three spheres will soon collapse into just two: Media orgs that oppose authoritarianism and media orgs that accept it.
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Traditional media will continue to fail the country because they play it safe to protect corporate interests.
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the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, CNN—which believe that politics should be covered as a sport with reports about who’s up and who’s down. Extraordinary efforts are made by these institutions to present both sides of every question"
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This seed overwhelms with craziness, Thanks to Mr. Last for providing a window into just how detached from reality some leftists are,
It's rather interesting that the author couldn't list any examples of what he considers pro-democracy media. Does that list include the various and sundry east European Pravda papers?
It is a lazy article
There’s the “neutral” media—the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, CNN
This statement makes the whole article the propaganda it complains about.