Former MSNBC host Pleasure Reid warned throughout a podcast posted Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s affect over American media might put all main retailers beneath the management of the federal government, like in North Korea.
In the course of the newest episode of “The Breakfast Membership,” Reid, whose previous community lately modified its identify to MS NOW, alleged that Trump is in search of to exert management over main media corporations, which might result in all media retailers being authorities propaganda machines.
Reid warned of this future media atmosphere beneath Trump’s management: “You get this one perspective that simply occurs to be the identical perspective because the president of the US. And now we’re North Korea as a result of, the place are you able to get any different view?”
She added, “That’s what Viktor Orban did in Hungary. Mainly, all the media is his perspective and solely his perspective, and you’ll’t get an alternate. That’s a harmful place, particularly on this nation – as numerous as this nation is. What number of views there are on the earth, we should always have the ability to get a wide range of it.”
Previous to her prediction, Reid talked to her hosts about how Trump has been utilizing his workplace and his friendships with sure media moguls to get retailers to do his bidding.
The commentator talked about the instance of Trump involving himself within the merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery’s TV, movie studios and streaming division.
Forward of the 2025 Kennedy Middle Honors over the weekend, Trump instructed reporters, “I’ll be concerned in that call,” remarking that such a “deal could possibly be an issue” due to how a lot share of the movie and streaming market would come beneath Netflix.
Reid talked about that a part of the rationale that Trump is concerned within the deal is as a result of David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, needed to hunt a means to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery for his firm.
“Yeah, and the Netflix president needed to go have a private dialog with Trump to get him to approve the deal as a result of the Ellisons had been additionally wanting to purchase Warner, and so they’re nonetheless lobbying to attempt to undo that deal to allow them to purchase it,” she mentioned.
Reid then said that most of these offers will result in a consolidation of media energy beneath Trump and his successors’ watch.
“It’s like, in the long run, we’re going to have like 5 media corporations. They’re going to personal every part and personal every part from social media to common media. This isn’t good as a result of the general public is just not going to have wherever to go,” she mentioned.
“It’s going to be like — again within the day there have been three networks. There’ll be three networks once more, however they’ll all be according to the federal government,” she added.
Reid has expressed fear over this Trump affect over media all through the previous yr, noting that retailers will fall in line if the federal government threatens to finish their broadcasting licenses and damage their backside strains.
White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson commented on Reid’s statements, telling Fox Information Digital, “Sadly, Joyless Reid has such little self-awareness that she hasn’t realized she is already a propagandist for the Democrat Occasion – and apparently an ineffective one as a result of she was fired by MSDNC.”
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