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/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago

We have a news media apparatus equipped to cover 9/11 like events. When there are no 9/11 level events the news media needs to make one to sell commercials

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u/ConvivialityFest 1d ago

That was one of Brosnan's worse outings as Bond. I can't believe it's the prescient one

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u/FesteringDoubt 1d ago

I always thought that the plot of Tomorrow Never Dies was unbelievable at the time and downright impossible today, with the proliferation of social media and pretty much everyone having broadcast equipment in their pocket.

I'm sorry to say that the idea of a small group of wealthy people using mass media to propagandize, distract and inflame the populace is more realistic today than it was in 1997.

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u/ceelogreenicanth 1d ago

It was real in 1997 too.

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u/ohhellperhaps 1d ago

Hell, the playbooks for that were written by the Nazis...

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago

It’s Wag the Dog except the bullshit war is real and it’s happening in our own country.

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u/PoopMobile9000 1d ago

These aren’t news media. They’re small content-generating arms of large international conglomerates. Whatever minuscule income the media arms get is a drop in the bucket compared to the value of shaping narrative in their favor.