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Janine de Novais's avatar

The first time Trump won I remember surprising friends and family with my consistent rants about how “the mainstream media” had done this to us. Folks thought I was overstating it. I disagreed. They normalized him as he campaigned then as president (I will never forgive/forget them tripping over themselves to call that maniac “presidential” whenever he used a complete sentence) and they normalize him now. If you read the NY Times you would have NO IDEA how unhinged the man is, how fascistic his policies and associates are, and most of all, thar he is one in a number of transnational criminals posing as politicians (as Sarah Kendzior often reminds us). These days I read (nay, skim!) said media and pretend I am a scholar in the future trying to find accurate reporting about this time—it’s just not there in the mainstream. This is a disgrace and has been since 2015 and it’s worse now. Sure, the end of media as we know it and Trump was/is a kind of perfect storm but real, ethical, independent journalists have weathered it, keep doing their work, at great cost. The corporate and legacy media have not. Their lack of courage and professional ethics in these times is so depressing and so deeply antidemocratic.

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