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The American people face an existential threat to democracy, unlike anything since the Civil War. Information warfare and the unprecedented assault on truth are critical components of this threat.
We’ve never faced anything like it, from corporate concentration and monopolization of mass communications and the flow of information and the existence of a vast right-wing propaganda ecosystem. Together, they are wreaking havoc on public discourse, politics, culture, civic society, and the class and democratic struggle.
We are witnessing the decimation of traditional print journalism, news departments, and local coverage. Last year, media companies laid off 2,300 news reporters. The layoffs came in response to falling revenues, the acquisition of iconic newspapers by Wall Street hedge fund vultures, and their gutting and dismemberment to reap maximum profits.
Major media outlets earned enormous profits in 2016 and 2020 by covering the elections like a horse race, promoting false equivalencies and “access journalism,” and normalizing Trump fascism. They did it to “gain eyeballs,” grow audiences, and bolster the bottom-line profits.
And they’re doing it again in 2024!
People’s World will never compromise journalistic integrity, normalize fascism, or create false equivalencies. We take sides – for the working class, people, democracy, and the truth!
The vast right-wing propaganda ecosystem and the MAGA fascist Republican Party are joined at the hip. The right-wing ecosystem has created “information silos” where nearly half the country lives in an alternative reality, forming the basis of a mass fascist movement. The right-wing media ecosystem is brainwashing tens of millions with propaganda, disinformation, lies, conspiracy theories, AI-generated deep fakes, and hate, and fusing fascist ideas from the fringes to the mainstream.
This new mass communications and political reality is an enormous challenge for the pro-democracy, anti-MAGA majority, multi-racial working class, and the people. It’s challenging for People’s World to “up our game” to produce better content and reinvigorate our mass communication and social media platforms.
Let’s go!
People’s World Editors
John Wojcik, Editor-in-Chief
C.J. Atkins, Managing Editor
Chauncey K. Robinson, Social Media Editor
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