The way everyone from media to industrialists, players and film artists were supporting Trump, if this much happened in India, they would have got the title of ‘Godi Media’ and ‘Bhakt’.
New Delhi, 6 November (IANS). If you look at the campaign sequence and now the results of America’s presidential election, which boasts of being a liberal, energetic, bright and enthusiastic democracy, you will know how much better India’s democracy is than this.
In fact, if even one percent of the way journalists, sportspersons, industrialists and dignitaries came out in support of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the presidential elections held in America in India, then there would be ‘Godi media’ and ‘devotees’ here. The reputation of starts getting divided.
The American media has an interesting and long history of supporting the presidential candidate of its choice. But, this time a new inclination was seen in it. When journalists from institutions also became supporters of the presidential candidates. During the election campaign here, the media’s inclination towards Trump continued to influence the elections there day by day.
In this presidential election, about 80 media groups initially stood in support of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, while less than 10 had appealed to support Donald Trump. But, this figure kept changing as the election campaign progressed. It was clear that the media here, which is considered the flag bearer of liberal democracy, was also not impartial in the presidential elections.
Big newspapers and magazine groups like The New York Times, The New Yorker, along with Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Denver Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, San Antonia Express had even written editorials regarding making Kamala Harris the President. While supporting Kamala Harris, many of these media groups were calling her the only patriotic candidate.
At the same time, news organizations like New York Post, Washington Times and Las Vegas Review General stood directly in support of Donald Trump. Perhaps after several decades, it happened in the US elections that some reputed media groups were seen refraining from supporting any candidate. Newspapers like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times were involved in this. That is, the surprising thing is that the media groups which were earlier seen supporting one or the other, this time were seen talking about being neutral in this election.
Los Angeles Times has earlier supported Democratic candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. But, this time the neutral stance of the newspaper was also criticized and the head of the newspaper’s editorial board, Mariel Graja, also resigned. At the same time, the Washington Post’s decision not to endorse any candidate after 40 years was criticized both inside and outside the newspaper.
After this decision of the newspaper, Washington Post editor-in-chief Robert Kagan resigned. At the same time, many columnists of the newspaper wrote an article condemning this decision of the newspaper. Actually, the reason behind this is Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, who is also the founder of e-commerce Amazon.
Now if you look at the support of industrialists in this election of America, you will know that Elon Musk was seen campaigning in favor of Donald Trump in this election and making full use of his social media platform X. He seemed more excited than presidential candidate Donald Trump in this election. Whereas, till some time ago, Musk and Trump did not like each other. Tesla and Space
Along with this, see the prominent faces there who came out in support of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Among these, Kamala Harris was being supported by Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, while Jon Voight, Jim Caviezel, Mel Gibson, Zachary Levi. , artists like Roseanne Barr were seen standing in support of Donald Trump.
Along with this, players like Mike Tyson and Hulk Hogan were seen here supporting Donald Trump. In such a situation, if any party or politician in India had got this kind of support, then by now the title of ‘Godi Media’ and ‘Bhakt’ would have started being distributed in their name or it would have become clear that in the biggest flag bearer of democracy like America, In India too, there is a large group of ‘Godi media’ and ‘devotees’ who come out in support of any party in the elections and express their views vocally.
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