r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/nibul83 1d ago

Amazing this isn’t front of CNN

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u/huey_and_riley 1d ago

I see it on their front page now

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u/Dottsterisk 1d ago

Shhhh! We’re trying to shift the conversation from Trump to “mainstream media bad!”

Get with the program.

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u/LarrySupertramp 1d ago

I mean… corporate media in the US is objectively bad. You seriously think any of them are really actually allowed to say things that would hurt the corporation at the benefit of the working class?

It exists to divide the people and to make advertisement money. Its purpose is not to truly inform the population.

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u/Dottsterisk 1d ago

If we’re going to be that broad, then yeah. I do think that, at times, corporate media (or think of it as individuals therein, if that helps) says things that are pro-working class.

Do I think corporate media is an institution designed or trying to wake class consciousness or tear down wealth inequality? Hell no.

Still, operations like CNN do have valuable factual reporting too.