The argument made in this article is incoherent, even though the title is in fact accurate. The notion that there's a "liberal conspiracy" in the press that is inherently unfavorable to mindless halfwits (aka Republicans) is belied by every scrap of evidence available. To take the most egregious example: Trump won in 2016 because the mass media gave him blanket coverage and spread his infantile ramblings far wider than any paid-for PR campaign could ever have hoped to achieve.

Why did the world's news organizations do this? Because Trump was such a cretin, such a lump of human feces, and his utterances so abhorrent, that he was perfect for generating the endless sensationalism the media relies on to grab eyeballs that can be monetized. Although individual journalists may have found Trump and the GoP in general to be vile neofascist morons, their money-making potential was simply too good to pass up.

As I've written many times here on Medium, our tragedy is that we are the first society in human history to commit suicide in pursuit of ad revenues.

The media really is the enemy of the people, but not because of any particular political leaning. It's the enemy because it depends entirely on manufacturing sensationalism without any regard for the longer-term consequences. We live in a fear economy because fearmongering is profitable.

And that's the saddest thing imaginable.