losthighway wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 2:02 pm
DaveA wrote: Thu Jan 29, 2026 12:20 pm
It's been a more overtly subtle transition than some might think. But one of the clearest tells that CNN has skewed more and more to the right in recent years occurred when they did a sit-down interview with Candace Owens amid flattering lighting. Similar somewhat to when
60 Minutes gave Marjorie Taylor Greene an interview in good faith. These interviewees are nut jobs, and not in a good way.
Remember that in Trump's first go 'round, the news media as a whole gave him
over two billion dollars' worth of free publicity.
Whatever views they claim possess, these platforms are enablers.
From the beginning DJT was a distinctly 21st century candidate because his free publicity was as car crash footage in the first cycles of his candidacy. The "will you believe this guy" early takes were high interest stories from media outlets who never believed he could win. At some point they had to notice it snowballing but they count success in views so they were hooked.
Even before his candidacy, he was given a lot of ramp-up publicity with all the birther stuff. If you’ll remember, he eventually able to get Obama to go on TV and hold up a birth certificate, which was a bigger victory for Trump than it was an exoneration for Obama.