THE NEW WAR ON CONSERVATIVE MEDIA

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Front Page Magazine:

Remember when Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory? The fake news media which predicted it in order to depress pro-Trump voter turnout certainly does. And so they’re out to fight “fake news.”

 

By fake news, they don’t mean their own raging torrent of misinformation and lies.

 

The media has gone to war against Facebook. While various supporters have blamed Hillary’s loss on everything from the FBI to internalized misogyny, the media has decided that Facebook is to blame.

 

Why Facebook?

 

Cable news is dying. Newspapers struggle online and offline. The mainstream media’s profitability lives and dies by social media. But the essence of social media is that it allows communities to shape what they see. That’s a terrifying idea if you’re a media conglomerate that depends on its megaphone.

 

But it’s also scary if you’re a leftist running for office in a country that doesn’t agree with your views.