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by dfxm12 1591 days ago
Not a surprise that political climate is getting more liberal since mainstream media is largely run and controlled by liberal think tanks and lobbyists

Erroneous! Erroneous on both counts!

The "liberal" party voted for the most centrist choice in their primary, and America picked him as their president. Americans today see Biden as more moderate than Obama, not more liberal [0]. I don't see how one can make the case America is getting more liberal when even the liberal party isn't.

The media is also absolutely not largely run and controlled by liberal think tanks and lobbyists. Nationally, Fox News dominates the ratings and had the top 3 rated cable news shows last year [1]. That doesn't even touch on SBG's well documented reach in key markets or conservative talk radio (which you can also find all over the top of the ratings lists [4]).

As such, they're able to promote and espouse liberal ideology and wokism into the minds of the majority.

It's hard to take such a claim at face value. On the one hand, conservatives like to play the victim against an undefined boogeyman, like we see here. On the other, conservatives are the ones wielding actual political power to enforce ideology through censoring educators and banning books [2], [3].

0 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/100-days-american...

1 - https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/top-cable-news-shows-of-2021...

2 - https://www.businessinsider.com/virginia-school-board-member...

3 - https://www.wfft.com/news/education/indiana-teachers-push-ba...

4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio...