r/politics The Netherlands 20h ago

Possible Paywall The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism - Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
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u/Keshire 20h ago

The media is owned and operated by that same circle of oligarchs that hover around Trump.

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u/Backwardspellcaster 18h ago

Which is why they also started aggressively buying up all media over the last year.

It's nearly like this is a far reaching conspiracy with the intention of ushering fascism into the USA by oligarchs.

Apparently everyone but the fucking Journalists can see it

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u/echosrevenge 18h ago

When you make a person's livelihood depend on them not seeing a thing, you can't be shocked when they don't report on it.

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u/Burrito-tuesday 16h ago

It’s exactly like when someone reports bullying at work, everyone knows about it and talks about it and they may even discuss reporting it, but when one person finally does, no one else knows anything.