CNN/MSNBC Political Consultant & Former Fox News Pundit Julie Roginsky discusses the media’s dereliction of duty and fear in covering Trump.
Fmr. Fox News pundit Julie Roginsky discusses mainstream media.
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Summary
Julie Roginsky warns that corporate-owned mainstream outlets helped normalize Donald Trump by smothering the electorate in uncritical coverage and then ducking accountability once the ratings bonanza curdled into constitutional peril.
- Les Moonves’s infamous line—“It’s damn good for CBS”—captures how profit incentives led networks to platform Trump nonstop.
- In 2016 Trump amassed 822 nightly-news minutes, more than any candidate in modern history, according to the Tyndall Report.
- A Harvard-CJR study shows a Breitbart-anchored ecosystem that set the broader media agenda and dragged legacy outlets rightward.
- Today Trump wields defamation suits—like his $10 billion action over a 60 Minutes edit—to stall Paramount’s sale to Skydance and intimidate reporters.
- Consolidation leaves news divisions tethered to conglomerates whose wider business interests invite presidential leverage and self-censorship.
Corporate media’s obeisance has real-world costs: it shields grift, stokes disinformation, and erodes democracy. A truly free press must choose civic duty over quarterly earnings.
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