CBS—under its new owners, the Ellison family—along with the Murdoch trinity of Fox News, the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, have covered the story aggressively, at times picking up unconfirmed accounts from conservative influencers that have spun into wild charges about vote-buying and cover-ups.
The New York Times provided front-page coverage to a Sunday news story echoing key arguments made in Trump administration talking points: that a Nordic-style welfare state in Minnesota, combined with criminal tendencies inherent to the state’s Somali population, created an environment ripe for fraud. The Times also focuses on the defendants’ claims that they were being persecuted for racial reasons.
But a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) review has found that the administration’s preferred narrative has been advanced in widespread coverage by corporate media outlets.
Local news that’s really still part of bigger giant corporate legit tried to muddy the news this morning by showing a report about an unrelated killing in the area, glossed over this story WITH the bs lie DHS spouted, and then proceeded to talk about yet another related crime back to back… honestly pathetic. All these news outlets, journalists, etc that aren’t outright calling out Trump and ICE are basically allowing it. Fucking cowards.
I was talking to a friend about his the other day, and he said he likes to get his news from “the left and the right” to get the “full story.”
He said there are far fewer right-wing news sources, and that he doubted I could even name three. I had no issue naming a dozen, and I could have kept going.
Corporate media, by it’s very nature, is right-wing. They will never advocate for the workers owning the networks or overturning the status quo. There are no “mainstream” leftist news sources in the US.
Some people get twisted into knots when you refer to NPR as Nice Polite Republicans
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Corporate Media Advances Conservative Narrative About Literally Everything.
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Corporate media (on the phone): Somali what? Is that a new gender? African… Tone grows somber. That changes everything.
Give me a few minutes. I have some YouTubers to call.
Billionaire media, not corporate media. It’s easier to hate billionaires than it is to hate corporations. Corporations have been made to be defined as “a person” due to the billionaires owning the lawmakers and now a lot of folks are looking in the wrong direction. The dark cabal sitting behind it all are the “shareholders”, which are mostly the same billionaires. It’s crazy!
When do you think the MAGAts bitching about the media will notice that they’re eating their own shit?
I don’t see anything in there that substantially challenges the facts presented in the New York Times coverage being criticized.
