John and Molly Knefel of Radio Dispatch
FAIR’s Jim Naureckas was interviewed by sibling podcasters John and Molly Knefel (Radio Dispatch, 6/17/16) about coverage of Trump, Sanders and Clinton. An excerpt:
There’s been a long period of conditioning of the right-wing electorate to be not just skeptical, but hostile to media and to the idea of journalism…. They’ve been trying to set up this independent reality and this idea that really any kind of criticism that can be leveled at conservative leaders can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from this group that is mostly hostile to their interests. I think there’s something of a charade going on, in that the interests of the corporations—the interests of Comcast, which owns NBC, the interests of Disney, which owns ABC—are not really at odds with the interests of the Republican Party. They have a great deal in common. And setting up this idea of an inherent conflict between elitists who are trying to tell you what to do, and regular folks, it is really a way that conservatives are able to sell policies that are pro-rich, pro-capitalism, and package them as somehow being anti-establishment and sticking up for the little guy.
