Why Won’t the US Corporate Media Call a Nazi Salute a Nazi Salute? The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-musk-nazi-salute

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  2. When news outlets trun to entertainment rather than informing, this is what we get.

  3. They’ve done this since 2016. Why would they start responsibility reporting now?

  5. The USA mainstream press is, at least, sympathetic to the fascist movement and our fascist government. The NYT even normalized and sane washed Trump.

  6. Because they are all f*cking terrified of Trump coming after them. They’ve already seen ABC pay tribute. Sounds like CBS is going to do the same.

  7. Mainstream press is owned by the same guys that are sucking farts out of trumps ass. Why would those guys allow their media press to put trump in bad light?

  8. As a billionaire with immense influence, Musk likely uses his wealth and industry ties to shield himself from criticism.

    Meanwhile, Trump and Co. have fueled distrust in media, pushing their followers to reject any opposing views. By prioritizing profit and access over accountability, the media risks normalizing harmful behavior and losing credibility as a watchdog of democracy.

  9. Elon Musk is a very dangerous man and a threat to democracy. He literally bought an election for fuck sake. That’s what we should be talking about. No, not talkin, screaming.

    Instead all of that is forgotten and we’re obsessing over this stupid gesture. We never learn.

  10. MSM decided to become TMZ because it got better ratings. They sold out America for ad dollars. Their shareholders need to see continuous growth and returning to solid journalism might jeopardize that. However, they underestimated how many people would actually turn the channel if a situation arose that made it blatantly obvious to Americans. Now, they’re married to Trump because no one trusts them anymore. I hope the blood money was worth it.

  11. If you aid and abet Nazis you’re also a nazi. It’s really that simple.

  13. Worlds richest nazi supports German nazis and a genocidal jewish authoritarian defends the nazi who defends the German nazis. I think we might have a nazi problem, guys.

  14. I’m pretty sure someone wrote a book warning us of this exact thing.

  15. We don’t need a newspaper to tell us what it is. We all expect Nazis to do Nazi stuff. What you must do now is decide what you will do when that salute is in your face.

  16. META, TikTok, and Google were heavily censored in the US this week.
    This is just the beginning.

  17. Because in the 80s and 90s the government of the USA decided that it would allow the rules about owning large portions of the media landscape to fall away, and then billionaires and corporations took over. Being dogs bred for profit and not social consciousness, they ended up becoming the b*tches for whichever rich person cajoled, bribed, or threatened to do so.

    The US is an oligarchy, has been for so long many late boomers have no recollection of it ever being different

  18. Yeah…No…..They set the troubling precedents years ago…this is just par for the course.

  20. 400 billion and all media owned by billionaires talk for itself

  21. …. and yet the majority of the country still believes that the media is in the tank for the Democrats.

    Republicans have successfully “played the refs” going back to Agnew. The media overcompensates, and the country buys the lie.

  24. What really concerns me is the fact that after he did a full on nazi salute, Tesla stock hasn’t completely bottomed out. Stock prices have a LOT to do with social sentiment, and if the social sentiment is that it’s ok we are in even more trouble than I thought.

    A few weeks ago I told my husband to invest in Rivian, because I thought everyone would be selling their Tesla and getting into them, but now I see more of them than ever. And that was before all of this

  25. Cause the corporate media is a tool for the rich and powerful.

  26. The fact that a place like Forbes included the theory that the salute was “because he has aspergers” has made me distrust any major institution (I was already mistrustful but that really was a shock)

  27. Maybe don’t watch American corporate media then! I can’t believe people are still tuning in to MSM when they all aided and abetted Trump’s second term.

  28. Ya know….maybe because Us corporate media are the nazis? They fired a meteorologist for stating the obvious so maybe the obvious thing is America is not so secretly a nazi country.

  30. Same reason they call a coup a riot or anti-abortionists “Pro-life”

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