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Oligarchs & MAGA Minions Busy Emasculating American Media By Matthew Fox 3/09/2026 |
There is much to be spiritually and morally outraged about these days in MAGA America. A crazy war rages in Iran that has already cost over 1,000 lives, many of them children and at least six American soldiers. |
The president of the United States follows after the Israeli prime minister—already guilty of war crimes in Gaza—to abruptly end peace talks and instead bomb children and schools, in a war of choice costing close to $1 billion dollars per day. No rationale given, no end in sight, and damage spreading all around the Mideast. Plenty of disturbing news at home |
The shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, parent company of NPR and PBS. Video by The Hill. |
and abroad, but here I would like to focus on those who bring us the news. In the last year, MAGA has stripped NPR and PBS of all their federal funding. One billionaire family now owns CBS, has wrecked its once heralded news division, and is fast becoming another Fox News propaganda machine. Yes,
Fox who were fined $787,500 two years ago for lying about the 2020 election to the American people. |
“Back home to the Reich:” A propaganda poster from 1939, used to justify Germany’s annexation of neighboring countries. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons. | This same billionaire family is lining up to own CNN—a third version of Fox! Like Goebbels in Germany, propaganda marches on. The defense department is headed by a weekend talk show host from Fox. Sycophants overseeing news is pleasing to the current powers that be. Expect propaganda from Fox, CBS, CNN with as little as possible reporting from NPR or PBS to counterbalance it. The Washington Post is for all practical purposes on board to support the
same |
ideology, thanks to the sellout by Jeff Bezos, one of the world’s richest men. When he bought the newspaper stationed in the nation’s capital thirteen years ago, he promised not to interfere with the reporting. Now he has buddied up with Trump and MAGA to satisfy his monetary lust and curry favors his bottom line yearns for. Choosing not to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024, he fired many of its best reporters so as not to upset Trump. |
It is estimated that the right wing owns well over 82% of American media today. It’s not enough that they dictate economic policy and buy elections, but now they own most of the media. Does that bode well for a world ever more dangerous and divided? I think not. In six weeks, Stephen
Colbert and the Late Night Show will be off the air thanks to a selling of CBS’s soul to MAGA oligarchs. I personally will miss Colbert and his intelligent wit aimed at power brokers at the beginning of each |
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show. Humor and satire are one of the most effective means for keeping autocrats in check just a bit. I resent the government telling me what I can and cannot laugh at. Putin and Hungary’s president dismantled any humorous shows that poked fun at their leadership. Fascists have no sense of humor,
they cannot afford to. You cannot control laughter, and control is the essence of fascism. Now America is racing closer and closer to a humorless late night. |
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| Unchecked capitalism seeks one thing: More for those who have the most. Capitalists, like fascists, are very single-minded. And ill at ease with being laughed at. ABC caved at first to similar pressures as CBS when they fired Jimmy Kimmel, but
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brought him back. A small victory in a bleak media landscape. Maybe alternative media will rise to combat the right-wing monopoly, but it may take time. Meanwhile America gets dumber and dumber and more and more humorless and democracy risks gets quieter and
quieter…. |
Banner Image: Although they are no longer branch offices of a national organization, NPR and PBS stations still operate locally as independent, community-based organizations, often affiliated with universities such as Texas A&M.
Wikimedia Commons. |
Queries for Contemplation How are you feeling about the takeover of American media by the oligarchs and
MAGA minions? How do you feel about Stephen Colbert being kicked off the air by CBS? |
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