Article in FAIR by Conor Smyth, 2/20/25

Headline: “Leading Papers Give Two Cheers for DOGE”

“. . .The Fourth Estate is tasked with serving as a check on abuses of power. But US media were not designed for this.

“Though critical in much of their reporting, corporate outlets have at the same time substantially legitimized the project of DOGE. For one, longstanding fearmongering about government spending in the news sections of corporate outlets has elevated precisely the right-wing vision of government animating DOGE.

“Even more worryingly, however, criticism of DOGE by major editorial boards has been weak, and in some cases has been overshadowed by these boards’ support for the ideas behind DOGE, or even for DOGE itself. . .”

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