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In reply to the discussion: It's truly insane that the media is treating any of this like it's normal. [View all]Johnny2X2X
(21,874 posts)For me, during the Michael Cohen testimony that these two were in effect members of the Trump campaign I was expecting a media circus around this scandal. When there was literally nothing, not a blip, no discipline from the NY Times or MSNBC, I posted here that the election could already be lost because Trump might very well own the media outright already.
It wasn't long ago that if it was found out that a member of the media had any ties to any campaign, they'd take a leave of absence or risk being fired. Yet here were two reporters at the NY Times and MSNBC, not exactly FoxNews, being said to, in sworn testimony, taking orders from the Trump campaign for president. They both should have been fired immediately. Nothing happened to either one of them, they both kept reporting for the NY Times and MSNBC on Trump. And it wasn't even a story in the media for more than a couple days, and at that, not a big one.
It was then that I realized if Trump had them on his payroll, he must surely have their bosses on his payroll too for them not facing any discipline. I had been noticing more pro Trump coverage on NPR and PBS too and started wondering who there he had gotten to.
And the Post and Times not endorsing Harris was a response, the billionaires who own those knew Trump was going to win and wanted to curry favor, or avoid being attacked.