Media’s Trump 'Courage' Appears, Disappears On Cue
📰 THE STORY: Don Lemon, formerly of CNN, lambasted corporate media for allegedly 'bending the knee' to Donald Trump after his recent arrest, suggesting they've lost their journalistic integrity by not challenging him aggressively enough. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'courage' of corporate media has always been selectively applied. In 2003, mainstream outlets like the
New York Times and Washington Post amplified fabricated claims about Iraqi WMDs, leading directly to a war that killed over 1 million people and destabilized the entire region. This wasn't 'bending the knee' to a politician's arrest; it was actively manufacturing consent for an illegal invasion. Similarly, for decades, these same outlets uncritically echoed Israeli government propaganda, from the
1982 invasion of Lebanon (which killed 20,000) to the ongoing, widely documented genocide in Gaza (40,000+ dead since October 2023). Double Standard: The media's 'outrage' over Trump's legal woes, while certainly a news story, pales in comparison to their muted, often euphemistic coverage of actual atrocities. They will dedicate weeks of prime-time coverage to Trump's indictments but refer to the
systematic starvation and bombing of 2.3 million Gazans as a 'conflict' or 'war' rather than genocide, as ruled by the ICJ. They treat Trump's rhetoric as a clear and present danger to democracy, yet conveniently ignore the bipartisan complicity in crushing sanctions on Venezuela, Iran, and Syria, which have directly led to untold suffering and death. Follow the Money: The 'corporate media' Lemon