Jack, in President Biden's inaugural address, he championed the hard-fought success of our democracy and talked of unifying our ideologically divided country.
Yet some, especially those that appear on right-wing media networks seemed to have missed the message. As the rest of the country celebrated the Inauguration,
Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN continued to pander to those in their audiences that still believed in many of the lies and conspiracy theories that dominated the Trump era, namely, that the election was stolen from Trump.
Fortunately, as Michael mentions in the email below, for the first time in two decades, Fox News' audience numbers are dwindling, fake news being shared is on the decline, Trump is banned from social media, and the platforms to which white supremacists gravitate are not operational. The right-wing propaganda machine is cracking.
Yet, progressive media still doesn't have the reach that right-wing media does. If we want to move our country forward with progressive policy, we need to grow progressive media outlets so we can educate, share facts, and garner support.
Daily Kos is the biggest progressive news outlet in the country, largely in part because of supporters of like you, Jack. Grassroots contributions account for nearly half of our operating budget. That's why I am asking you to support progressive media by giving $5 a month to Daily Kos.
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Amanda McKay, Daily Kos.
Jack, Fox News viewership has dropped more than 20 percent since Election Day. Fake news stories dropped by 70 percent since Donald Trump was deplatformed from social media. Extremist organizing app Parler has been effectively shut down by service providers.
Fake news and dangerous conspiracy theories dominated the Trump era because they were pushed constantly by right-wing media. And despite the progress that's been made to rein in these dangerous lies in the past few weeks, the simple fact remains that conservative media still dwarfs progressive media.
The left simply doesn't have anything that compares to the reach of Fox News, even given its recent ratings decline. Daily Kos is the biggest progressive news outlet in the country and we simply need to be much, much bigger if we're going to provide President Biden and Democrats in Congress with the cover they need in the months ahead to enact an agenda that will undo the damage Trump has inflicted on the country.
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