Former President Joe Biden used his farewell address to warn about an “oligarchy” around President Donald Trump, and the media have responded by teaching such concerns as if they are an objective fact. Case in point: CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter joined Tuesday morning’s CNN News Central to react to Monday’s inauguration and dubbed it “the inauguration of the oligarchs.” Stelter also feared that Trump’s relationship with tech CEOs will lead the latter to “quelch dissent” on their platforms and make it harder to protest Trump.
Host Sara Sidner began by wondering, “What message do you see this sending? There are only a few seats that weren’t for Congress members because it was inside, and here you see Bezos, Zuckerberg, Elon Musk standing there at the inauguration.”
Stelter immediately channeled his inner Biden, “This…
