2019-07-17

The false narrative the establishment media drops.

https://fair.org/home/to-media-no-democrat-can-possibly-be-right-wing/

Corporate media are funded by the same sources that fund both parties and broadly share the same ideology, hence the reluctance to critique them. By refusing to position them on the political scale, or falsely identifying them as left of center, they are attempting to close the Overton window and prevent a leftward shift in US politics. But that does not mean that we as news consumers have to accept these framings.

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