CNN has decided to promote a presidential candidate who, when he was president, tried to prevent his elected successor from taking office. It was an attempted coup d'etat.
CNN to democracy: Up yours.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/politics/donald-trump-town-hall/index.html
Big Journalism is deliberately repeating the worst of its past performance. Let's stop pretending otherwise.
@dangillmor that's on purpose...
Just like the affirmative #PropagandaOfTheDeed by #mainstream #MassMedia every single time a #MassShooting occurs.
They profit from #StochasticTerrorism and thus are financially incentivized to platform it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390
Won't someone *PLEASE* think about the corporate media shareholders 🤦🏻♂️
@dangillmor On the plus side, Trump ain't the guy he was in 2016 or even 2020. He's now a one-eyed weirdo trapped in a fantasy world and struggles to read speeches and needs handlers to help him in edited interviews.
I think when people see what he's like these days in an unscripted/unedited setting he's REALLY going to turn people off. His only hope is that CNN limits his answers so he can blame them for his terrible performance. The more people see him, the better.
@AshleyMarineP Yeah we’ll never get the Trump supporters. It’s everyone else we’re after. Trump got fewer votes than other Republicans in 2020 due to Republican-leaning voters who don’t like Trump.
And Trump won’t look humanized, he’ll look like a bitter delusional weirdo who reminds everyone about all his scandals and confessing to crimes. The worst thing the media used to do was to reduce his rambling speeches into sound bites. Unedited Trump is a mess, especially now.
If a POC had done this, they would be in jail or dead.
This is precisely why Chris The Paste Eater Licht was brought in, to make CNN MAGA friendly by pumping up their orange fascist. He was Scarborough's Renfield - I mean, producer - at MSNBC and did all he could to undermine and cancel liberal staff and shows even then.
@dangillmor It’s only been seven years since I first pointed out that the mainstream media leans Republican. For my efforts I get told that “no, all mainstream media is corporate-owned, they are not Republican or Democrat.”
I now need to make a correction.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA STRONGLY LEANS REPUBLICAN.
Don't watch them. CNN is dead to me. #fascismendshere #boycottcnn
@dangillmor
This is capitalism: the only thing that matters is profit accumulation.
Jan 6 may have been awful, but it was great ratings, thus profitable for them.
Capitalism gone abroad is imperialism, but now it's come home, and we know what that means. Just like in Germany, though, the disaffected masses cling to the strongman, and the political elites foolishly think they can control him.
@dangillmor #JohnMalone is the oligarch responsible for turning CNN into a propaganda outlet.
@dangillmor They see their job as providing entertainment in return for clicks and advertising dollars. Trump gets eyeballs. Therefore…
Once you stop seeing modern news media as an institution concerned with democracy and start seeing it as a money machine for stockholders, most of their “strange” decisions make more sense.
@dangillmor No surprise, when you consider CNN also airing ads for autocracies like Mr Bone Saw's Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates & other entities ruled by authoritarian dicktators.
Ads that contradict, what a show host may have said just seconds before are serial embarrassing own goals, undermining one's own credibility for money.
Unwatchable CNN.
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