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Peter's avatar

Republicans have made it beyond clear that SS and Medicare are on the chopping block in 2023 and beyond if they hold any power at all. They have also made it clear that they intend to use the debt limit, up to and including default, to extract concessions from Biden and the Democrats that they can never get legislatively. And in spite of it, the traditional media is 100% focused on "Biden's inflation", rising gas prices (that are actually not), and rampant crime in the streets (while ignoring the fact that crime is much worse in Republican controlled states and cities than in Democratic controlled ones). And the race tightens, and Republicans are likely to win. Why does the corporate media hate America and the American people?

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Julie Greenberg's avatar

One answer to your question is that the corporate media is run by Republicans who like Republican policies because those policies benefit them along every dimension. If a fraction of the money spent by Democrats to support Democratic candidates were instead spent on non-profit local media outlets with journalistic integrity and support for public media (the U.S. spends 4% of the average per capita investment by developed democracies in public media), corporate media would likely be more anchored in reality.

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Adam's avatar

The corporate media in a nutshell. Thank you Julie.

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Frank Lee's avatar

The corporate media is owned by the billionaires through their Wall Street holdings and they align with Democrats. Catch up.

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Jan's avatar

Oh I think the corporate media is owned mostly by Republicans. Bezos is a Republican, and Zuckerberg is, too. Heck, my local paper is owned by a Republican. Who owns WSJ and Fox News and who does he align with? NYT aligns left of center.

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Frank Lee's avatar

HAHAHAHAHA!

Bezos, Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Gates, Cook... the list goes on. They are ALL either Democrats or registered Independent that vote for Democrats.

Only Musk is swimming against the Democrat tide, but he was a registered Democrat and is states clearly that he is not a Republican.

Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street are the three largest shareholder of all the large corporate media and big tech companies... including Fox News (Murdoch owns the most - 39% - in the case of Fox News, but add up the Wall Street ownership and is is over 30%). These Wall Street firms manage the assets of the billionaires. The billionaires are, by far, more in the Democrat camp these days.

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership

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Jan's avatar

At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter: they are all oligarchs and want their Robber Baron days to blossom and grow. The oligarchs use us to divide and disrupt. This business of Democrats vs Republicans is ridiculous. To the very wealthy we are just bugs anyway and they don’t bother themselves with our complaints or our views. They just want to control things like the Robber Barons that they are. So you are doing the work for them so they can continue turning everything to their advantage. Enjoy being their cog.

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Frank Lee's avatar

The Democrats support the WEF globalist Great Reset project that the Oligarchs want. The climate change hoax is a part of that. Woke ideology with ESG and DEI is a part of that. The defund cops movement is a part of that.

I do not disagree that the oligarchs care not for policies but for the continued consolidation of their holding and the growth of their wealth, but either the Democrats are willfully enabling it or else they are useful fools supporting it.

It is a partisan issues only because the Democrat party, in their political platform and agenda, are lock-stock-and-barrel in sync with the same interests. Some establishment Republicans are too, but not the Trump Republicans that have taken over that party.

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Adam's avatar

Hey everyone, look! It's the execrable Frank Lee who is like a pigeon, defecating and leaving filthy spoor everywhere he goes. Always with the insults too. What did Julie ever do to you?

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Frank Lee's avatar

Adam son, you are hypersensitive and you should seek some therapy to help make you be better. Your bar for "insult" is so low you keep tripping over it.

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Adam's avatar

Hey Frank. We all know that you don't really believe the garbage that you spout, nor do you have any real defense for doing so. Just another day at the troll farm right Frank Lee, you old fraud? Or should I say Фрэнк Ли? (for those who don't know, that is the execrable fraud, Frank Lee's name in the language of his Russian employer).

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Heidi Dietterich's avatar

The corporate media, as well as most corporations, only care about money... that is the only thing they care about.

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Adam's avatar

"To extract concessions?" A polite way of describing extortion brought to you by republican thugs and gangsters. If only we could get REAL patriots into office eh?

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Peter's avatar

Like the way they use the corrupted Supreme Court, Republicans know that their unpopular policies can never be extracted legislatively, therefore they use gangster tactics to impose them on the rest of us.

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Adam's avatar

Indeed Peter. Agreed.

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Katie Galvin's avatar

Corporate media is the right wing. They just regurgitate right wing talking points

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