re: #49 BeachDem

It’s not the haters I’m talking about. It’s the fucked up media.

re: #54 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Same difference, really.

re: #58 I Would Prefer Not To

Same thing.

It’s not the same, let me explain why. It’s because the media, with some exceptions on the far right (FOX, OANN, NY Post, Washington Examiner) isn’t motivated by hate. Their motive isn’t personal, it’s financial. It isn’t immoral so much as it’s amoral, profit driven. Beltway reporters like Seung Min Kim don’t hate Harris because she’s a black woman, but they’re absolutely willing to tear her down any chance they get with performative, dishonest, two faced, anti-black framing whenever they cover her because it’s what their bosses want. Those bosses desperately desire Republicans back in control because they want continued lowered taxes and the massive ad revenue covering the dysfunctional chaos of Trump’s administration brought their companies. Failing that they’ll settle for a good close horserace, even if they have to manufacture it by hook or by crook.

They’re cynically sacrificing Harris, Biden’s administration, Democrats, the country and given the geopolitical and environmental stakes literally the entire planet on the altar of corporate quarterly earnings reports. So the reason the media and the haters shouldn’t be conflated as the same thing is because the media absolutely knows better, and the actual job they’re supposed to be doing that they aren’t is to accurately inform the public.