Amid his culture war campaign against “woke” liberals, critical race theory and other bugaboos of the political right, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken his ongoing culture war to an old, reliable political enemy, the media, writes Clarence Page.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis greets people during an event spotlighting his newly released book at the Orange County Choppers Road House & Museum on March 8, 2023, in Pinellas Park, Florida.
He gave the world a preview last month with a contrived “roundtable discussion” in a mock television studio livestreamed on social media under the topic “Legacy media defamation practices.” His guests were plaintiffs and lawyers who had sued major media companies, including Fox News and The Washington Post.DeSantis called major media companies “probably the leading purveyors of disinformation in our entire society,” adding, “There needs to be an ability for people to defend themselves.
After the court overruled Roe v. Wade, following a half-century of seemingly settled law, anything can happen. You’ll have to catch us first, I said to myself. If the media content in question is wrong, the media deserve to be called out on it.But DeSantis and Trump are both wrong to imply that “disinformation” only applies to ideas they don’t like and that it only comes from the left.
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