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We are now 75 days from the most important and dangerous election that
we've ever covered. And because the corporate media has failed so
miserably covering Trump over the last 5 years, he has just as good a
chance of winning as he did back in 2016.

Time and again, the corporate media has proven itself completely
incapable of responding to an authoritarian demagogue like Trump.

Instead of focusing on how Trump's policies are hurting people, they
gather like moths to a flame over the latest outrageous Trump
controversy. That allows Trump to control the narrative and distract
from his failures with divisive culture wars.

The root of the problem is that the corporate media have a fundamental
conflict of interest. They rely on high ratings and clicks to make
money, and Trump delivers.

As CBS CEO Les Moonves admitted in 2016, "Trump might not be good for
America but he's damn good for business." They don't just tolerate
Trump's demagoguery. They play it up, and then profit from it.

Even now, with hundreds of thousands of Americans dying and millions
losing their livelihoods, they can't stop chasing Trump's latest shiny
object, whether that's his Kamala Harris birther lies or Goodyear Tire
banning MAGA hats.

There's too much at stake in this election to let the corporate media
fail again like they did in 2016. As a nonprofit, progressive news
source, Common Dreams doesn't take any corporate advertising. We have no
conflict of interest, and we refuse to be distracted by the Trump circus
from the real pain Americans are suffering.

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