Everyone seems weirdly insistent that it's impossible that it's just that there are people who control the media who like Trump and think he's good. "I like Trump and think he's good" is actually a very commonly held opinion! It's not that unusual for people to hold this view!
Personally, it's hard for me to believe that media execs actually like him because I've been paying attention and know he's an unlikeable lunatic. It's more believable to me that they fear Dem policies and don't actually believe he would govern as a Nazi.
I also think it doesn’t matter. “The press likes Trump and wants him to win” is true the way “pi is 3.14” is true. If you want to be a real dweeb you can spend a lot of time and effort being MORE right or you can just use the simple answer that works for 99.9999% of all use cases.
Or even "I don't like him, but what he wants to do would benefit me, so that's good"
There are human beings who make these decisions. The New York Times ran a story on this trial, did you see it above the fold, in push alerts, in breaking news social media posts? Or was it buried on A16 bsky.app/profile/burn...
What is it though other than racism and taxes? Tariffs, sucking up to Putin, NATO, all the things Romney Republicans believed in, so not much remains ideologically other than taxes and racism.
It literally is just, "the media has been consolidated under a few people, so now the views of those very rich people are being overrepresented in media." The boss's boss wants trump to win. Any reporting to the contrary will upset the boss, and these are perilous times for editors, journos, etc.
Its so weird. If I described an institution (NYT) that was owned by a nepo baby and staffed by nepo babies and legacy admissions at ivy league schools you wouldn't jump to "they're liberals who just need clicks to pay the bills!" You'd probably correctly observe, "oh those are republicans"
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general... this, but for all large publishers and consolidated ownership
"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," the CBS CEO said.
One thing the media has absolutely worked to obscure over the last 9 years or so is that "I like Trump and think he's good" is an opinion is very common among rich and wealthy people, including the people who run media orgs.
Elon Musk bought Twitter to shut up independent journalists, not as a funny meme It brings people comfort to pretend that the Murdoch family only affects Fox News, that Jeff Bezos doesn't control the Washington Post, that literal oil companies don't own most of America's "local" news.