It's hard to overstate how ideologically poisonous this is to the media. It's a huge story and pulls a lot of views, but if you actually READ the message, it's lucidly advocating for the murder of unaccountable rich scumbags by pointing out the systemic harm they do to huge swaths of the society. Do the Murdochs, say, want to signal boost an open call that they be killed? You could try to narrow the focus to heath care per se, but anyone's mind will jump the tracks in a minute or two and get the broader implications.
I think you're right about the Murdochs but a lot of the liberal media was just fine with boosting Trump's message and he calls them the enemy of the people and fantasizes about violence done to them.
I don't understand what the false equivalency is here. I was pointing out that media doesn't seem to have scruples if it's a message that their audience is interested in. Murdoch had Fox run all those segments about voting machine conspiracy theories and was even anxious about the legal liability of them in those texts and emails that were released. He had them push on because they were losing market share to Fox's even nuttier competitors like Newsmaxx. Corporate liberal media continues to boost Trump's signal, giving him billions in free airtime in 2016, 2020, and 2024. They even sane wash his word salad because their viewers want the story to make sense.
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u/zbracisz 16d ago
It's hard to overstate how ideologically poisonous this is to the media. It's a huge story and pulls a lot of views, but if you actually READ the message, it's lucidly advocating for the murder of unaccountable rich scumbags by pointing out the systemic harm they do to huge swaths of the society. Do the Murdochs, say, want to signal boost an open call that they be killed? You could try to narrow the focus to heath care per se, but anyone's mind will jump the tracks in a minute or two and get the broader implications.