Article in FAIR by Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas, 11/7/24
Headline: “Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model”
“Corporate media may not have all the same goals as MAGA Republicans, but they share the same strategy: Fear works.
“Appeals to fear have an advantage over other kinds of messages in that they stimulate the deeper parts of our brains, those associated with fight-or-flight responses. Fear-based messages tend to circumvent our higher reasoning faculties and demand our attention, because evolution has taught our species to react strongly and quickly to things that are dangerous.
“. . . With refugees treated as a scourge in centrist and right-wing media alike, is it any wonder that Trump can harvest votes by promising to do something about this menace? . . . ”
“. . .Kamala Harris did not run as a progressive, either in terms of economic policy or identity politics. But to a corporate media that largely complemented, rather than countered, Trump’s fear-based narratives on immigrants, trans people and crime, blaming the left is infinitely more appealing than recognizing their own culpability.”
and in Common Dreams:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mainstream-media-trump-win