Trump controls the agenda because the US media allows it. [View all]

[guillaumeb]

Trump is constantly tweeting, constantly speaking, about a wide variety of things.

His tweets and talks are intended to frame the conversation and to control the agenda. In this, he is following the established GOP playbook of framing the debate.

By framing the debate, Trump controls the terms and scope of the debate.

But imagine a country where the media was not mainly right wing and corporate controlled. Imagine a country where the media actually was controlled by liberals, rather than a few corporations controlling 90% of the media outlets, and where research institutes actually conducted substantive research rather than produce right wing position papers.

Imagine a country where, every time the latest Press Secretary lied, the reporters fact checked and cross examined the Press Secretary.

Imagine a country where the media analyzed the impact of the GOP tax scam instead of merely reporting what the GOP says about this latest iteration of supply side fantasy.

Imagine a country where the media reported that 60% of tax revenues go to support a war machine instead of passively repeating the GOP meme that the military is weakened.

Imagine a country where social spending was treated as a positive, rather than a drain on the job creators.

Imagine a country where the Walton family was seen as predators for their model of externalizing their business costs onto the US taxpayers.

Thanks, corporate media.