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The weird part is everyone forgetting in a week or two...
The media is on the side of the wealthy, because that's the whole reason they bought the media in the first place.
This isn't the first time, been happening since newspapers were cutting edge. It's the natural result of deregulating journalism. So ething both parties do at almost every opportunity.
All the shit going on now with the media can be traced back to Slick Willy in the 90s.
https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/
It baffles me that Americans don’t properly fund their public broadcaster