Bias against Trump

Published at 08:28 on 11 August 2016

A few days ago Fox News had an article complaining about media bias against Trump.

And guess what? They’re right. The Establishment media have never been unbiased. For example, they’ve long been systematically biased for free trade arguments (strong, logic-based cases against same have only rarely been allowed to appear, giving the impression that it’s a world of strong arguments for and weak ones against).

The mass media consists disproportionately of private, for profit organiazations owned by the capitalist ruling class. It should be no surprise that it acts in the interest of that class. And Trump has gotten so extreme that ruling class politics (which is not confined to the GOP and its enablers; Hillary Clinton is very much part of the acceptable political spectrum embraced by the elite) has now rejected him pretty much wholesale.

So yes, the media are biased against Trump. Which, to me, is just fine. I’d much prefer a media run on the principles of economic democracy, which would have prevented the root causes (systematic propaganda designed to brainwash the masses into embracing a class system that disadvantages them), of course. But such a thing can’t be created overnight, the Trump threat (and it is a real threat) is here now, and needs to be fought now.

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