The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti

Author:Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti [Ball, Krystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Strong Arm Press
Published: 2020-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

The Corporate Media Reckons With Their Years of Gaslighting

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Saagar Enjeti

The elite media’s corruption and disconnect from broader American society has been relatively fast in the making. Just a decade ago, the media’s consolidation and control over the flow of information in the U.S. was a virtual monopoly with the internet merely nipping at its heels.

Just 10 years later, with the full solidification of the social media age, you would think they’ve started to learn their lessons as their relevance dwindles. Instead what has happened is that corporations and oligarchs have purchased media companies and turned them into propagandistic arms for their direct financial and social interests.

The good thing about naked propaganda, however, is that it enables the rest of us to confirm our long-held suspicions. My previous essay outlined how Michael Bloomberg’s ownership of Bloomberg News and subsequent actions showed how oligarchs maintain control over our media.

This essay was inspired afterward by the reaction of the corporate media to the Trump campaign’s decision not to credential Bloomberg News reporters in retaliation. Corporate media executives and reporters flocked to the side of Bloomberg News because all must maintain the illusion that they are not tools of the world’s most powerful people.

Maintaining the illusion of objectivity is key to the corporate media’s claim of monopoly on information distribution. As their audiences continue to shrink, they will only continue to gaslight the American public more through their powerful perches throughout the media. The good news is, the internet can fight back.

December 3, 2019

Consequences for the corporate media are finally starting to materialize. President Donald Trump’s campaign announced that it would not allow any reporter from Bloomberg News to cover its rallies soon after Mike Bloomberg jumped into the race.

The Trump team’s statement says, “Bloomberg News has declared that they won’t investigate their boss or his Democrat competitors, many of whom are current holders of high office,” adding that “since they have declared their bias openly, the Trump campaign will no longer credential representatives of Bloomberg News or other campaign events.”

The move was not surprisingly met with whining from the cable news syndicate and couched as another attack by the president on the so-called fake news media, with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait writing, “the accusation of bias couldn’t be further from the truth. We have covered Donald Trump fairly and in an unbiased way since he became a candidate and will continue to do so despite restrictions imposed by the Trump campaign.”

The New York Times Editor-in-Chief Dean Baquet even got in on the action, standing by Bloomberg News, calling it “one of the largest and most influential news organizations in the world,” and adding that “we condemn any action that keeps quality news media from reporting fairly and accurately on the presidency and the leadership of the country.”

Anyone with a functioning frontal cortex should snort at the idea that a media organization that bears the name of a Democratic presidential candidate can possibly cover their potential opponent fairly. Bloomberg News let the cat

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