There is a certain type of person who cheers on the collapse of the mainstream media. They revile establishment institutions. They are Trump-curious and have inherited his open hatred of the media, though they are usually unaware the former president has been an obsessive reader of tabloid newspapers and will still grant interviews to the New York Times. They feel the media, in general, is stuffed with too many liberals, too many wokes, and why care when so-called Democratic Party propaganda organs like the Washington Post or Los Angeles Times lay off a bunch of journalists? A bunch of journalists who are probably libs and hate them? The media, in their view, is one great hivemind, one massive liberal industrial-complex that needs to be dismantled so the new world can take root.
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