Not just generic oligarchs but specifically Fox.

It really isn't just fox.

You especially see it if you pay attention to framing. On every mainstream platform, social issues are always first and foremost framed as "how can we afford this expensive social program!?!". It's always business friendly and worker hostile.

Have you read the New York Times, CNN, or Washington Post for instance?

It was a major deal that Biden's health was declining and he showed signs of dementia. But when Trump displays similar symptoms there's dead silence.

There's a consistent "sane washing" of the crazy things Trump says across nearly all media and the double standard is unreal.

I swear that has been something that, as an European person, left me quite speechless. We've heard a lot about Biden mental situation, but nothing about the other guy struggling as well

He's nowhere near as bad as Biden. The media downplayed Biden's senility until the disastrous debate made it impossible. Americans got to see both candidates talk without a teleprompter for a couple hours, and Trump was able to handle it easily, while Biden exhibited clear signs of mental decline.

Trump has a rambling oratory style, but that is more of a stylistic affection.

Why deflect towards Biden?

The question isn't if he's better or worse than Biden, the question is if he's well enough for the presidency. And he's shown very clear signs of mental decline the last months.

Neither Trump nor Biden should have been chosen as candidates, yet all the focus has been on Biden.

... and the network formerly known as Twitter.

You know, nothing gives me competence in my incompetence than seeing just how fucking successful Trump and Elon have been despite their lack of competence

You mean the same majority of the major media outlets of all types that has been consistently hostile to Trump for many years?

If it's the oligarchs in the media who were a factor in this second victory, then it was through one truly spectacular mass-scale reverse psychology of getting exactly the opposite of the narrative they almost consistently pushed. That would be one very interesting story if it were at all true.

More realistically: to a very big (and apparently growing) swathe of the American voting public, the kind of shit that mattered most was what much of the media and their progressive political supporters in the major cities derided enough for all those millions of voters to dig in their heels and ignore them. Trump symbolically and often also literally, vocally represents this resistance to that media narrative, and thus he won again.

Musk, Bezos and Murdoch are three that come to mind. Two are legacy media. Between Fox and Washington Post that surely is not even half of the 'mainstream media'. What other oligarchs are there that I'm overlooking?

- Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook/Instagram (issued the statements in late Aug 2024 about Biden administration pressuring about censoring Covid-related info)

- Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of LA Times/San Diego Union Tribune, and other newspapers, LA Lakers, billionaire biotech person

- Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, owner of Time magazine

- Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, owns The Atlantic Monthly

- Masayoshi Son, Softbank CEO, USA Today/Gannet media group owned by New Media Investment Group via Fortress Investment group via Softbank

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- Michael Bloomberg (former mayor of New York city) owns Bloomberg

- Sumner Redstone owns Paramount/Viacom/CBS

- Thomson family (Canada) owns Thomson Reuters via Woodbridge Company

- Brain L. Roberts, CEO Comcast, son of company founder, NBCUniversal, Sky Group, owned via 33% controlling supershares

- Donald Newhouse, son of company founder, Conde Nast (New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue), newspapers, controlling stake in Discovery Comms.

- John Malone, former CEO of TCI cable, largest shareholder of Liberty Media, et al.

Thank you for educating me. I had no idea.