Cable News Refused to Report Trump’s Bombshell Quid Pro Quo Offer to Big Oil Execs |
“The most under-covered Trump story is his complete selling-out of the American people on issues they care about most,” one political insider said.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cable-news-trump-big-oil
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…four days after the story broke, it only received 48 minutes of cable airtime—all on *MSNBC*.
Were all worn out by the constant bullshit. Steve Bannon’s strategy was good, because now were all just used to constant attacks on our values. Hard to care about every little thing, there is insane shit like destroying the department of education, the pandemic response center, etc. The fuck do you want us to do about it?
We the people of this United States deserve more than 47 presidents
That’s why they want him to win so they can have 24 hour news cycles
So all mainstream media is frightened about truly covering Trump because the 25-30% of loyal Trump worshipers might boycott the outlet(s) causing the loss of revenue. In the era where 2-3% difference equates to millions of dollars in ad revenue, they chose to honor the almighty dollar rather than present the news.
[Also Commondreams](https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/01/when-commercialism-trumps-democracy)
> Donald Trump’s ascendance has many enablers, but news media deserve special scrutiny. Television news in particular has popularized Trump — and, in doing so, has turned our political process into a reality TV spectacle. Even when attacking, news media are boosting his visibility.
Does Big Oil have ads on those networks? Why risk angering one of your revenue streams.
CORPORATE👏MEDIA👏WANTS👏MORE👏TRUMP👏
He’s good for their bottom line. I wish more regular people were keen to this.
Liberal media my ass.
Trump is the most corrupt politician in the history of the US.
Lock him up!
Journalism has become entertainment for profit. We’re prolly doomed.
Trump coverage has become the Step-Family porn of news networks.
Nobody wants it, its always slightly uncomfortable at best, but since there is so much, it generates clicks and views, and therefore “Must be what people want!”
We’re tired of step-porn!
I mean Trump coverage!
This shows you exactly what news network you should watch and believe, and which you should avoid.
THIS should be front page, with constant updates. It’s a pretty major story, instead we see stories like this put behind the curtain.
Upsetting seditionist and MAGA so you don’t lose viewers is the cost of your credibility.
A news network without credibility is no longer news. It’s now just entertainment. Like a comedy show.
And now they can’t find Giuliani to indict him in Arizona 🤣
This needs to be put on billboards.
Corporate Media doesn’t care. Corporate Media is too busy trying to get trump reelected.
Ratings!!!! 🐎🤑🐎🤑🐎🤑
If America allows him back to Washington DC no sympathy, no forgiveness & certainly deserves the destruction of freedom, democracy @ constitution.
This sounds like Trump wants to raise gas prices even more. How does anyone still think he’s a man of the people?
Unfortunately this “bombshell” is from anonymous sources. So while I think it’s certainly true, it doesn’t do much.
Not only that, but the media is in outright denial about how destructive Trump will be on environmental and climate change policies.
I was listening to NPR today. They had some schmuck on talking about how Trump was an “unknown” on the issue of Climate Change, whereas Biden was bad at addressing the issue because he was too focused on his policies in the Inflation Reduction Act and not being bipartisan enough. Total fun house mirror BS that’s divorced from reality.
The mainstream media is not liberal, and if anything, it’s actively trying to elect Trump.
I mean I can explain why I don’t care. Because I would’ve been shocked if Trump hadn’t made such a promise. This is completely on brand and ties both into worldview and ethos of a completely transactional relationship with no concern for consequences. You want to shock me? Have him take a principled stand on any issue.
Apparently his voters have either decided willful ignorance is preferred or this is the type of leadership they want. It won’t get reported on Fox and the rest of the media aren’t going to change a single heart or mind with this story.
It’s not much of a news story, because in Trump land it’s just a Wednesday.
he already sold state secrets, so this is a lower bar.
The whole 80,000 crowd size lie was an attempt to cover up Donald Trump openly soliciting billion dollar bribes from the oil industry.
It was covered on MSNBC
Who would have thought the corporate run media would have sided with other big corporations that probably own considerable amounts of stock in each other.