The attempts to normalize the con artist by media like CNN was bad enough

[Quiet Em]

The doubling down and pretending that his ideas are "mainstream" or "moderate" or "appeal to the working class" is downright insulting.

Biden/Harris ran on kitchen table issues. The con man ran on bigotry. It was obvious to everyone. There is a reason everybody is tuning out them out and no longer watching their ridiculous coverage.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Our "Independent Media" seems to be rapidly making the transition

To State TV.
Not one fucking penny to these scum from me.

[jalan48]

5. +1

[Silent Type]

2. Normalized? CNN showed that MFer 24/7 in court, doing/saying stupid things, interviewed people he raped,

and worse.

If anyone normalized trump it was voters. Ain’t CNN, MSNBS, etc., fault. The info was there.

[Quiet Em]

3. Yeah, and then Elie Honig or Scott Jennings or whoever would attempt to normalize it all.

"Oh, he's in court, the blue collar guy can relate to that."

C'mon.

Yeah, 1/2 the voters thought this was ok. But the media acted like it was ok as well.

[Silent Type]

4. Don't think Jennings, etc., fooled anyone. Besides their audience is small. Did he sway you, or anyone

you know? Certainly not me.

[Quiet Em]

6. Didn't fool me, didn't fool you, didn't fool people who wanted to vote for Trump because of his bigotry either

The point is, 1/2 the people voted for Trump because of his bigotry, not for economic reasons, and the media ignored it all and made ridiculous excuses for it and still are.

[Silent Type]

9. Damn right he's a vile racist/bigot. Everyone knew it and CNN never said/projected otherwise.

[Quiet Em]

10. I don't have the same opinion.

I didn't care the coverage. It felt like normalization to me. I didn't like it. Still don't.

[Kaleva]

7. Relatively very few people in the country watch cable news

The percentage is in the mid single digits

[Quiet Em]

8. yeah that seems to be true.

Most people rely on social media now. But, the cable media still creates headlines, so they do have some influence.

[Meowmee]

11. The media are largely responsible for him rising to power in the first place

by not calling him out the way they should have but instead giving him 24/7 free advertising/coverage to make profits. Now they are doing it all over again. Seeing the vast majority of them and some d in the gov fall in line is puke worthy to say the least. Cnn in particular underwent a take over of sorts with a right wing boss and became even worse a la invasion of the body snatchers like mode at one point, I can't remember when now, over a year ago.

I stopped watching for the most part anyway 1-2 years ago. When I watch now I can't stand it anymore for long, and often start yelling at the tv due to their hypocrisy and stupidity depending on what is being discussed. I am done with this farce of a shit show and the "both siderism" used to push right wing fascist garbage.

[usonian]

12. IMO, everything the magat party said was a cover up for bigotry and hatred.

They just LITERALLY flung shit against a wall and saw what stuck.
It was always about power, nothing more, and the morans bought all the lies.
The media were all complicit in not calling out the simple truth.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219812717

[flvegan]

13. Turn off CNN and never speak of them again.

They offer nothing of value. Give them no clicks, reposts, searchable items for our overlords algorithms.

Let them starve and die.

Lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of those like media outlets.