You are dead-on accurate about the media slant and their domination of how people get their "news". There are still way more cable outlets that are leftist propaganda (MSNBC, CNN, etc) than - say - right leaning (FOX) and I will admit some shows on there are unwatchable name-calling garbage (like Sean Hannity).
But the left wholly owns TV broadcast media (NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX TV, PBS). They own 80-90% of print (and related on-line) newspapers, especially those with relevance and influence: NY Times, Washington Post, Atlanta JC, Houston Chronicle, LA times, etc. and AP / UPI that feeds a lot of what they print.
For news I don't read print (or on-line) papers, don't watch local or national broadcast stations, and haven't for a long time, but there are 10s of millions of people who still get their news by these leftist propaganda orgs. Especially those people over 50 years old.
Even for those under 50 who might be more inclined to get their "news" off of social media, from Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc... that doesn't work for truth or fairness either because you can see recently many obscene cases of Twitter, Google, FB censoring news or points of view that damage their leftist propaganda mode.
Examples:
- burying / censoring anyone who tried to raise the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and his shady deals with Ukraine, China..
- that the virus may have (now likely has) come from Wuhan lab...
- that masks may not be the savior / cure to COVID...
- that lockdowns may not have been an effective solution for all people of all demographics (age 2-102 regardless of other health status)...
- that looking into the safeness and side effects of a rapidly developed vaccine, and its potential risk to low-COVID-risk persons (children) is worthwhile....
- that there may have been some things that seemed fishy on election night, with 6 key swing states all stopping counting at the same time, only in exact large cities required to swing these states to Biden (outside of years of historical trends)....
any mention of these topics or requests to look into the possibilities further gets you censored and / or banned. Or if you even agree with or repost what others have said in this regard. This should be highly disturbing to freedom lovers and civil rights advocates, or just American citizens, regardless of your political leanings.
ETA - and then there is the far-left slant of almost all educational institutions from grade school through college, which almost all kids go through, then have to learn (get mugged by reality) most of the woke PC BS they were taught was wrong.
It's an uphill battle to preserve individual freedom and to get younger people to understand the unique greatness of America and capitalism.
