While they celebrate the leftist "No Kings" protests this weekend, the Left is monitoring the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas. Mediaite was alarmed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's comments about how "President Trump is taking on the fake news media, and President Trump is winning."
Leftists are horrified that the supposed "independent agency" is aligning itself with the president -- as if that's never happened at the FCC. But Democrat FCC chairs are only a soothing presence for the DNC Media.
FCC Chair: Trump is winning. Look at the results—PBS and NPR defunded. Joy Reid, Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, John Dickerson are gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN will have new ownership as well. pic.twitter.com/8kdrG5T3GP
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Carr explained Trump's actions: “When he ran for office, he ran directly at the fake news media. So many other politicians and Americans simply gave way to the legacy national media. They let the legacy media set the narrative, and President Trump smashed the façade. He said, ‘You don’t get to decide what we say, what we think, how we’re gonna vote inside the voting booth.’ President Trump took on the fake news media, and President Trump is winning.”
The elitist media are used to setting the agenda for both parties, and Republicans have traditionally sought to roll with the punches the media were throwing. Trump hasn't allowed the press to set the agenda, especially in the second term.
Carr continued: “Look at the results so far. PBS — defunded. NPR — defunded. Joy Reid — gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd — gone. Jim Acosta — gone. John Dickerson — gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough, CNN is gonna have new ownership as well.” Cheers could be heard.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison and his son David acquired CBS, and are now in the process of getting CNN, too.
“So, we’re not at the point yet where we’re raising the ‘mission accomplished’ flag, but President Trump is taking on the fake news media, and President Trump is winning,” Carr concluded.
This is definitely a dramatic list of changes, but for anyone like us who monitors media content every day, there hasn't been a noticeable evolution in the nature of the "news." It's still hyper-negative in its approach to Trump, even if some vocal hosts and reporters ended up on Substack. CBS News isn't "MAGA-coded," no matter what the Daily Beast says. Defunding PBS and NPR was certainly a victory -- so that conservatives and Republicans aren't funding their opposition media. But their programs are still incessantly left-tilted.
It's certainly premature to declare a victory, but it's also true that the leftists feel quite demoralized about the trends in media, which they like to portray as creeping authoritarianism. They pose as the saviors of democracy, and when they lose, so does democracy. They want Democrats to retake control of Congress, and then they'll feel like they have their mojo again.
