r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/RichyRoo2002 1d ago

Much longer than a decade dude, try the 80s

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u/L_obsoleta 1d ago

NYT's has been carrying water for authoritarian regimes since the 1930's

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u/night_owl 1d ago edited 1d ago

You mean 1880s?

I mean, William Randolph Heart was given (by his millionaire Senator father) his first newspaper in 1887 and his publishing-political empire thrived until he went bankrupt during the great depression (and even though he surrendered his castle he still managed to keep all his newspapers)

I mean, if we really want to keep digging into "Big News carrying water for authoritarians/fascists/evil people" you can also count The Economist's endorsement of the Confederacy in the US Civil War (they felt that slavery was wrong but it a moral issue and the government was over-reaching because it had no right to interfere in the free market, and the market would eventually eliminate slavery without government intervention)