Has the mainstream media already made its peace with fascism? We'll soon find out

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/has-the-mainstream-media-already-made-its-peace-with-fascism-well-soon-find-out/ar-AAWqgRX?li=BBnbfcL

Powerful interests in the American media may actually want Trump to win in 2024 — or at least to stage a bruising rematch with Joe Biden.

There are other reasons as well, which include avarice, greed, denial, fear, willful ignorance, laziness, bad habits, anxiety and immaturity. As the late media critic and author Eric Boehlert highlighted in what would be his last newsletter, there are powerful interests among the mainstream news media who actually want Donald Trump to win in 2024 — or at the very least to stage a competitive rematch with Joe Biden — because that would be "exciting" and "good for business."

Right-wing propagandists who do the work of the Republican-fascists and larger white right represent a particular type of danger and threat to American democracy. But perhaps just as dangerous are the professional centrists and hope-peddlers who keep telling the American people — in the face of the preponderance of the evidence and common sense — that somehow everything will be OK.

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It's time to yell fire in the crowded room. The building is ablaze.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. The more fucked up things are in the world, the happier our media is.

And, the bigger their bank accounts get.

[lapfog_1]

2. Trump is not going to win the primary

DeSantis is the one we must be really afraid of... all of the hate and spike of Trump, but way smarter (not that this bar is all that high) and slicker.

[appalachiablue]

3. K/R More from the article:

In the new America the Republican-fascists are trying to force into being, If you are not one of the MAGA elect, your life will be hell. If you think your life is difficult now, it will be orders of magnitude worse if the fascists and their movement achieve their goals.

As the New Republic recently warned, "Our system of government is crumbling. Around the world, autocracy looms. The tasks ahead could not be more urgent." But instead of explaining this reality to the American people in a consistent, clear, repeated, transparent and direct way — while providing the larger context and importance of these facts — the mainstream news media has, for the most part, chosen to focus on the latest distraction.