The Cure for Corporate Media | Joe Trippi Joins Susan Demas & Edwin Eisendrath
September 24, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe line that “If ABC wants to stand strong, it can, and it can win this fight” wasn’t Joe Trippi spitballing about television. It was a blunt diagnosis of how power works in an autocracy — victory goes not to those who are right, but to those who refuse to bend. Trump’s push to sideline Jimmy Kimmel has little to do with late-night comedy and everything to do with testing who caves first. What looks like a fight over airtime is really a rehearsal for whether networks will fold when the stakes rise higher.
Media consolidation isn’t an arcane policy debate but the scaffolding of authoritarianism. Edwin Eisendrath warned that “the wealthy right wing [has] bought up so much of the voices that people hear in America,” and the danger sits in that word — voices. People trust their local anchors, the familiar faces who deliver weather and high school sports, and don’t see the partisan script being slipped beneath the teleprompter. Once trust is redirected into propaganda, democracy doesn’t break with a bang; it withers by consent.
The counterweight, as both Joe and Edwin insisted, is organizing. “We have to organize online. We have to organize in person. We have to show up,” Edwin said, not as a slogan but as the only answer left. Polls already show people are ready to protest but paralyzed by uncertainty about where to go. Filling that void is the task, turning exhaustion into participation before despair calcifies into silence. What matters isn’t scale on day one but the simple fact of showing that silence won’t win.
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