Michelle Lamb: That’s the most ironic thing of all. These news organizations think they’re immune from authoritarianism when they’ll be the first to go.

The news is a business. Journalists say their job is to inform, but the people who pay them are interested in profits. Trump was extremely good for the news industry.

No one should mistake the media's reaction to the debate for concern for the nation's welfare or helpful suggestions to improve Democrats' chances this fall.

I'm not saying there's a conscious media conspiracy to reelect Trump, but that the news industry has incentives that favor exciting new things. Biden coasting to the nomination is boring. The current storyline is more dramatic and is generating a tremendous amount of content

They need to be careful what they wish for, because a free press will be the first to go in the "exciting new" era we are staring down.

That’s the most ironic thing of all. These news organizations think they’re immune from authoritarianism when they’ll be the first to go.

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