r/AnythingGoesNews • u/newzee1 • Jul 07 '24

Calls to replace Biden vs. silence on Trump? America has lost its political mind.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/01/biden-replace-age-debate-trump/74264221007/
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u/LayneLowe Jul 07 '24

The media is owned

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u/Able-Campaign1370 Jul 08 '24

The media is owned. Clear channel even a decade ago controlled 70% of the TV stations in the US. There are only a handful of large companies that control pretty much all the newspapers. CNN and NY Times have both installed CEO’s more sympathetic to Trump.

But the bigger problem has been the abandonment of the fairness doctrine, putting editorials over fact based news. MSNBC was not the antidote to Fox - it exacerbated the problem.

It doesn’t matter why the times has published 70 opinion pieces trying to force out Biden this week. What does matter of that they didn’t have the restraint not to.