The Press Is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again
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The quality of life for the average non tech Americans is dropping, that usually ends up with a candidate who represents rage.
Someone is coming who will punish the elites and experts for failing to live up to their promises.
So they need a sequel to the chaos of the last 4 years to be played by the same villain of 2016 - 2020. Then their ad revenue figures will skyrocket again.
Outrage sells. Especially picking a villain of the year to keep writing about for years.
"Why the Democrats Are Funding My Far-Right Opponent"
Pretty funny.
When the National Review writes about DeSantis, aren't they genuinely wanting him to beat Trump?
How does them writing about him help Trump? They get three seperate mentions, including this callback:
> Donald Trump leads the polls nationally and in most states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner. But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.
That seems fairly honest and straightforward.
Should they be going for reverse-psychology and talking about how great Trump is and telling people to vote for him?
Trump won one election, and got an even larger turnout in the next election. In the second, they could not possibly pretend that they were unaware of his character.
It seems to me that National Review is fooling themselves if they think that there is a "broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP". They are deliberately, consciously voting for what they want.
Maybe it's "honest and straightforward", but also deluded. And the National Review has a very long history of helping create exactly this kind of opposition to the consensus they claim to want. They were instrumental in setting up the Republican party to choose "free-floating populism with strong-man overtones".
This is very untrue. The LOVE him. CNN and all of the left wing outfits have waaay more impressions during Trump's presidency. Right now there's nothing to view except fox news because everyone is looking for people hating on Biden right now and the left media is refusing.
...I'm going to need you to define "everyone" in this sentence for it to have any semblance of truth.
In the end, who says something only matters like... 1% at best. If you're looking for truth, then critically analyze the claims and the evidence they do or don't have, don't put so much stock in the claimants nor how much you want to agree with the claims.
You're kidding, right? Fox 'News', is "entertainment", not news. Beyond their very obvious bias they don't air anything resembling a news story, only manufacturing outrage through having an opinion. They don't engage in any critical analysis what-so-ever. Their credibility is non existent and quite literally on pair with a tabloid magazine. Fox is officially, not 'News'. Having an opinion about something, is not news. Entitled to that opinion, sure. But passing it off as a claim of 'noteworthy recent events', is absolutely despicable.
So, you're right that all news stations have some element of inaccuracy for the sake of ratings, but you're wrong in thinking they're all equivalent in the amount of inaccuracy. Fox is the worst offender on that front.