America is presenting itself to legacy media for examination and diagnosis. And like a dysfunctional healthcare system, the media is identifying individual symptoms and missing the disease.
Rolling out the red carpet and playing second fiddle to a war criminal invited to speak on American soil isn’t an isolated story. Ghislaine Maxwell having private meetings with Trump’s personal attorney and then getting “protection” and a transfer to a cushy Club Fed doesn’t stand alone. Turning the nation’s capital into a police state with armed National Guard on the streets of D.C. is not independent of Trump’s septic vision for our country. Ignoring due process. Defying court orders. Attempting to erase immigrants and whitewash slavery. The list of symptoms is long and grows daily.
There is some excellent reporting happening within legacy media, and if the country were generally in good health, then standard exams would be adequate. You could do a single story and move on. But America is seriously ill, infected by a man eager to silence the goodness, progress, and potential that is the beating heart of our country.
After a decade of Donald Trump spreading hatred, division, and corruption, enriching himself and America’s oligarchs along the way, the mainstream media still fails to recognize or find the courage to speak out and call this man what he is: a tyrant and a wannabe fascist dictator. Ignoring the sickness allows it to grow stronger and more difficult to treat.
And that’s where this movement of independent media comes in. That’s why Lincoln Square exists. Because we’re not willing to watch this country we love and the potential it holds be snuffed out. We will never do just enough to say we covered a story and move on, hoping that no feathers were ruffled, no ire was raised, and no one in this sick administration noticed. If they’re not noticing, then we are failing, and we have no intention of allowing that to happen.
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