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Friend,
I'm gonna let you in on a dirty little secret about the corporate media.
They want Donald Trump to win.
Don't believe me? Here's what Les Moonves, the former head honcho at CBS said back in 2016:
It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS . . . The money's rolling in and this is fun. I've never seen anything like this, and this is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.
Though the corporate executives who run major news outlets have learned not to say things like this publicly, they know that Trump is ratings gold. That's why they handed him $5 billion worth of free TV time in 2016. And it's why he's president today.
They simply can't take their eyes off the Trump show, letting his deranged Twitter feed drive the news cycle while ignoring deadly serious issues like the climate crisis.
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