Article in Daily Kos by Max Burns, 12/16/24
Headline: “What the Media Missed: DeSantis might defy Trump—but senators won’t”
“This was the week that the wealthy and powerful bent the knee to Donald Trump. Tech CEOs including Apple’s Tim Cook, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took their turns at Mar-a-Lago wining, dining, and dropping off million-dollar checks for Trump’s slush fund of an inaugural committee.
“The media also accelerated its own surrender to Trump’s authoritarian future. On Saturday, ABC News announced its bizarre decision to settle a defamation suit filed by Trump to the tune of a $15 million payout and a formal apology. The decision was even stranger given the fact that Trump has failed in all of his previous media defamation lawsuits—leading critics to argue that ABC News prematurely surrendered in order to avoid Trump’s presidential wrath.
“Most of that news flew right by the cable news media this weekend, which dedicated more air time to Elon Musk’s mom than to the creeping autocracy down at Mar-a-Lago”