FactualThe provocative style of the 45th President of the United States has forced “traditional” channels and newspapers to adapt their tone and paved the way for new digital players. With the coming to power of Democrat Joe Biden, new movements are emerging.
A few hours after Donald Trump was definitively banned from Twitter on January 8, 2021, it was time for jubilation on MSNBC. With a smile on her face, Rachel Maddow, the famous presenter of the liberal trend news channel, described in very personal terms the misadventure of the 45e American president. “If you are one of those millions of Americans who have struggled for four years to figure out how to try to ignore the President’s senseless and false cries and claims on Twitter, well, well done! Today is the last day when you will have to devote your energy to this cause ”, she launched, in the introduction of the “Rachel Maddow Show”, her daily show, one of the biggest audience hubs of the NBC subsidiary.
Far from wondering about the impact of such an initiative on the part of a private company towards a sitting president, the journalist instead welcomed the act of “Courage” from Twitter. For a long time, this political commentator has shown a visceral anti-Trumpism, which she does not hesitate to stage.
Tears, indignation, insults, political broadcasts broadcast between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the three American news channels CNN, MSNBC and Fox News no longer have much to do with journalism. At the helm of these programs are claimed pro or anti-Trump. In 2018, when Rachel Maddow cries on the air when she learns that the children of illegal immigrants are being kept in detention centers on the Mexican border, Laura Ingraham, her alter ego on Fox News, compares these same centers to ” camp “. Uproar in the political class. Even the temple of impartiality, CNN, is no exception in the fashion for cookie-cutter commentary. The most emblematic example, Don Lemon, African-American journalist at the head of the 10 pm – midnight section, does not hesitate to call Donald Trump a racist.
Radicalization
In four years, the Republican president, who will leave his post at the latest on January 20, has profoundly changed the American media landscape. Each has chosen a side. The speeches have hardened. On the air or in the columns of newspapers, the word ” lie ” replaced that of “Deceptive” to qualify the words of the President of the United States, a first in the country. “Given the situation, we couldn’t be satisfied with just opposing points of view without putting a word on things. We had to say what it was, at the risk of failing in our responsibility as a journalist ”, justifies Jim Bittermann, CNN correspondent in Paris.
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