The Media’s Role in Normalizing Authoritarianism

From a reader: “By normalizing and laundering DeSantis, the mainstream news media is presenting neofascism and authoritarianism, and all of the human harm such policies have already and will cause to the American people on an even greater scale, as something palatable.”

Anyone who expects the media to do anything other than gleefully selling fabulous amounts of advertising based on the number of eyeballs focused on their so-called “journalism” must have slept through the last eight years, at the beginning of which the CEO of one of the mainstream television channels said, “Oh, Trump?  Of course he’s a disaster for the nation, but he’s just terrific for us.”

Money talks, and democracy walks–or in this case, runs.