Every day mainstream media *chooses* what topics to cover & how to cover them: there are *very few* stories that mainstream media *needs* to cover on any day. Right now the mainstream media is choosing to make Afghanistan withdrawal the top story & choosing to make it a disaster.
Mainstream media could *choose* to frame withdrawal as massive success: 116,700 evacuated since 8/14 from war zone (when MSM demanded we could never get 50,000 out). Or, they could focus on US nearing 1,000 deaths/day from COVID-19.
When mainstream media does talk about COVID-19 they tend to frame it in terms of the political fight, who to blame & who will win. Instead, instead they could focus need for vaccines, need for cheap/plentiful testing, etc.
In short: mainstream media pretends that topics & frames of the day are inherent, but they are all *choices* of a pro-war, pro-Republican (natural result of false-equivalency) mainstream mainstream media.
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