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Pro-Trump Media Execs Tried to Censor Critical Articles
There was a stealth effort to slant media in wannabe dictator’s favor
Donald Trump, the worst president in history, was supported by about $2 billion of free media in 2016, according to The New York Times. Media executives, many who were friends with Trump, gave him tons of free media because he was good for ratings. According to Eric Boehlert, founder of PressRun.Media. Many executives also harbored a deep animosity towards Hillary Clinton and delighted in giving her as much negative media as possible.
“There is a hostility towards Hillary among the news media that goes back to the 1990s,” said Boehlert in a 2019 Salon interview. “There was an attempt to normalize Trump because the mainstream, inside-the-Beltway corporate media types did not like her. Of course, almost everyone was convinced Hillary was going to win. In the fall of 2016, I believe that the American news media saw its job as to make sure her win was as unsatisfying as possible, that it wouldn’t be historic and she would limp across the finish line.”
And we all know how that turned out four years later.
