Watching the pro-regime demonstrations in Iran, one can’t help but question such rabid affirmation of a governmentdenyingwomen’s equality,shooting protesters, tanking the economy, supporting terrorism, publiclyexecutingdissidents, and withholding basic freedoms cherished by the West.
Yet, while that fervently observable support for arguably the worst abuser of human rights in the last half century can be explained by fear, that conclusion is only partially true.
For as despotic as Iran’s government is, it would still be relatively easy to remain invisible to the regime by staying silent rather than taking to the streets. So, fear alone does not adequately explain why people manically support the unsupportable.
Thus, such visibly fanatical approval of such a visibly repressive regime can also be explained as guiltless ignorance of civilized norms, fueled by state-controlledmediaunceasingly promoting a distorted reality.
However, the same blamelessness cannot be said of those many afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, for it is those infected multitudes who fail to recognize that their knee-jerk TDS is a form of self-imposed ignorance. And so, it is their choice, theirs alone, to blindly accept the mainstream media’s unending negativity toward the 47th president.
Analysis from the Media Research Center clearly confirms what objective viewers already know; namely, that broadcast networks such as NBC, CBS, and ABC, and cable outlets such as CNN and MSNBC (rebranded a few months ago as MS NOW), are anything but fair and balanced.
That said, the clearest proof of that “deck is stacked” prejudice is their coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, in which the legacy media cooked a partisan reality and served it to voters, consuming its bias as an undeniable truth.
In the four months before the election, ABC, CBS, and NBC reported roughly 80 percent positive coverage of Harris and 87 percent negative reporting of Trump. And another MRC dataset showed that, depending on the topic, over 90 percent of commentary was favorable toward Harris and over 97 percent was negative toward Trump.
Among the televised cable networks, CNN and MSNBC, CNN’s tone was generally positive, even defensive of Harris, while MSNBC was highly favorable, often celebratory of the vice president. Right-leaning Fox News was virtually alone in its cynical-to-hostile assessment of the former California senator.
Aside from Fox, Harris’ candidacy was described as historic, barrier-breaking, competent, and pro-democracy. Her numerousgaffes, personality quirks, andpolicy misstepswere rarely mentioned, seldom questioned, and never dwelt upon.
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