Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Trump and the media: Promoting fascism



From Kevin Drum:

...Trump has gotten 47 percent of all TV mentions among Republican candidates since he announced in June. Marco Rubio has gotten 6 percent. It's fair that Trump gets more than Rubio, but rather plainly he shouldn't be getting that much more.

So who's responsible for this? The chart on the right shows mentions over the past week. Fox News mentioned Trump 452 times, but the biggest guns by far were CNN and MSNBC, who apparently have serious Trump obsessions. CNN mentioned him 1,375 times and MSNBC mentioned him 1,484 times...

Later: See also Jeffrey Tucker's Waking up to the reality of fascism

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