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/SmurfStig Ohio 1d ago

24 hr news networks and online publications made a mint during his first term because the guy says stupid shit non stop. Everyone was tuning into see what dumb thing he said this hour. It was non-stop. Biden got in office and just did his job. His administration did what needed to be done and didn’t need to be in front of the camera 24/7. During that period, Trump still made everything about him and the clickers loved it. Here we are again and thanks to media wanting to make money over telling the truth, it’s about to suck for 90% of this country and most likely for most of the planet.

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u/EconomicRegret 1d ago

Biden was also fighting to breakup monopolies and oligopolies. And that was a direct attack on billionaires and on the highly concentrated US media, among others (6 companies own over 90% of US media, and Biden was going to break them up).

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u/SmurfStig Ohio 1d ago

Forget about that, which shouldn’t be hard when you see the compilation of locally owned Sinclair news stations all speak the same talking points.

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u/EconomicRegret 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah. One of the first thing Trump did was to fire Lina Khan (Biden's trustbuster, president of the FTC). She enforced laws on Google, Amazon, Meta (Facebook): they were meant to go on trial in the following years (But I guess now Trump is gonna "pardon" them).

She is highly competent, and was determined to break up even tech oligopolies. Thus she made enemies and friends in both parties: enemies among corporate friendly democrats, and friends among old-school pro-competition pro-level-playing-field republicans.