DONALD TRUMP AND THE TOLL OF VITRIOL
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to talk about the media's role in creating the atmosphere for something like this to happen |
| 0:05.8 | and for years past the media corporate media I'm talking about specifically has had |
| 0:13.9 | monopoly on creating narratives. They weren't really challenged and even up until COVID it took about a |
| 0:18.3 | year or so for a critical mass of people to start questioning the evidence behind the lockdowns or the science behind the vaccines. |
| 0:25.6 | And this is something that has rapidly increased. |
| 0:28.7 | There's even a book on this by Noam Chomsky called Manufacturing Consent. |
| 0:32.6 | This has been known for a long time. |
| 0:34.2 | This is how the media and the power classes of the US |
| 0:38.1 | do these things. |
| 0:39.3 | And so when we saw the incident happen to Donald Trump we immediately saw the media go into headlines like this |
| 0:47.5 | This is associated press they wrote Donald Trump escorted off stage by secret service during rally after loud noises ring out and crowd |
| 0:55.6 | CNN says secret service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally now I'm not one to defend corporate media but in their defense these were early headlines but still anybody any citizen |
| 1:07.3 | Journalists or anybody on social media was already was already scooping that story and going into the real narrative. |
| 1:13.8 | So we're seeing, I think for the first time, |
| 1:16.1 | is unraveling of narratives in real time |
| 1:19.3 | by citizen journalists, by just regular people. |
| 1:22.2 | This is a phenomenon I've never seen in my lifetime. |
| 1:25.2 | So it'll be fascinating to see how this unfolds, but really going back to the media, general |
| 1:30.4 | violence becomes more acceptable and the chances of events like this happening, |
| 1:34.5 | what happened to Trump, increase when the media has been doing this for several years. |
| 1:41.9 | Check this out. |
| 1:43.0 | Donald J. Trump presents a clear and present danger to our democracy. |
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