Mary Trump - The Appeasers
It took awhile, but in the run up to the 2024 election, many in the corporate media started to tell the truth about the threat Donald Trump poses to the future of American democracy. Many of them accurately called him a fascist. Of course, they also spent a lot of time normalizing him, so it shouldn’t surprise us that those same people are falling over themselves to get back in my Donald’s good graces.
In the weeks since the election, we’ve begun to see just how far the corporate-owned media will go to appease the man who, on an almost daily basis for nine years, has maligned the profession of journalism and put individual journalists in danger.
Of course, the appeasement, or as scholars of authoritarianism call it, anticipatory obedience, by certain outlets began well in advance of the election. Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, owners of The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times’ respectively, refused to allow the papers’ editorial boards to endorse Kamala Harris.
The most embarrassing current example of this appeasement was the spectacle of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi of MSNBC’s Morning Joe announcing on live television that they had visited Donald at Mar-a-Lago.
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