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This is especially the case while there is an increasing perception of a growing distance between top players and a mainstream media that can do so much to oil the PR machine that helps feed such gargantuan bank balances.

They cast their opponents as dangerous foreign-born criminals and their feckless enablers in the Democratic Party and mainstream media.

On Sunday, former actor turned conservative pundit James Woods shared a video of police vehicles on fire to his nearly 5 million followers on X, stating, “If I hear one more leftist shill in mainstream media utter the words ‘peaceful protests,’ I’ll throw up.”

So this notion of partisan striations in trust in the mainstream media is both part of American political history and also a fairly new phenomenon, relative to the 50 or 60 years that preceded Trump.

At the time, Brand refuted the “very, very serious criminal allegations” and claimed he was being targeted by the “mainstream media” because of his views.