The Complicity of Major US Media

*America does not suffer from a lack of news.

America suffers from selective news.

Every day, millions of Americans are told what matters by a tightly consolidated media ecosystem that decides which stories deserve urgency, outrage, endless panels, breaking-news banners, and prime-time emotional oxygen.

And too often, the stories most dangerous to democracy are buried beneath celebrity gossip, campaign horse-race theater, clickbait culture wars, and sanitized political framing.

Scripture warned us about this.

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees…” (Isaiah 10:1)

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves…” (Proverbs 31:8-9)

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

If major U.S. media were truly committed to democratic accountability, these five stories would be dominating the national conversation.

Instead, too much silence.

1. JEFF LANDRY, LOUISIANA, AND THE “FAILED NARRATIVE” OF RACISM

This should have ignited a national firestorm.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry — a Republican and former state attorney general — dismissed the idea that racism remains structurally relevant in Louisiana politics, calling it a “failed narrative.”

A failed narrative?

In Louisiana?

A state where Black residents comprise roughly one-third of the population?

A state with one of the deepest histories of slavery, racial terror, voter suppression, segregation, and anti-Black political engineering in America?

This is the same Louisiana whose congressional redistricting battles have become national voting-rights flashpoints.

This is the same Louisiana where Black voting power has repeatedly been contested through map drawing, litigation, and political maneuvering.

This is the same Louisiana that, following the weakening of federal voting-rights protections, became ground zero in the battle over whether Black voters deserve proportional representation.

So what exactly is the “failed narrative”?

That racism existed?

That it still shapes outcomes?

That race and power remain intertwined?

Political gaslighting becomes especially dangerous when spoken from executive offices.

When leaders redefine history, democracy itself becomes unstable.

2. THE QUIET NORMALIZATION OF TRUMP THIRD-TERM POLITICS

This should be headline warfare.

Instead, it has too often been treated as quirky political theater.

Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced a constitutional amendment proposal that would effectively allow Donald Trump to seek a third term.

Pause there.

America’s constitutional tradition has long rejected presidential permanence.

The 22nd Amendment exists specifically to prevent the concentration of executive power.

Yet somehow, discussions about extending Trump’s presidency beyond constitutional norms have entered mainstream political conversation without the level of alarm they deserve.

Imagine if a Democratic president floated this.

Imagine if Barack Obama had done so.

Or Joe Biden.

The outrage ecosystem would be nuclear.

But normalization is how democracies erode.

Not always with tanks.

Sometimes with laughter.

Sometimes with shrugs.

Sometimes with “he’s just joking.”

History teaches that constitutional guardrails collapse gradually before they collapse dramatically.

3. THE POWELL MEMO, PROJECT 2025, AND THE LONG GAME

If Americans understood the Powell Memo, they would better understand Project 2025.

In 1971, future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell authored a confidential memo for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warning corporate America that free enterprise was under cultural and political attack.

That memo became ideological jet fuel.

It helped inspire the growth of modern conservative think tanks, donor infrastructure, media ecosystems, judicial pipelines, and policy engineering networks.

Enter The Heritage Foundation.

Enter decades of strategic governance planning.

Enter Project 2025.

Project 2025 did not appear from nowhere.

It is the institutional descendant of a long political strategy: reshape federal power, control the judiciary, weaken bureaucratic independence, redefine civil service protections, and centralize ideological executive control.

This is not conspiracy.

This is documented political infrastructure.

The long game has always been the point.

4. WHY THE POWELL MEMO STILL MATTERS RIGHT NOW

The Powell Memo remains relevant because it understood something many progressives ignored for decades:

Power organizes.

Power funds itself.

Power builds institutions.

Power trains successors.

Power writes policy before elections happen.

That is precisely why Project 2025 alarms constitutional scholars, governance experts, and civil-rights observers.

Because it represents not spontaneous governance—but prepackaged ideological execution.

This is not simply about elections.

It is about institutional capture.

When Americans hear “deep state,” they often imagine faceless bureaucracy.

But what if the deeper question is: who has spent fifty years building the machinery to permanently shape governance?

That story deserves front-page treatment.

5. TRUMP’S ATTACK ON BLACK AMERICA

Rachel Maddow recently broke down a larger pattern that deserves deeper national scrutiny: the disproportionate impact of Trump-era and Trump-aligned governance decisions on Black America.

Whether through federal workforce restructuring, attacks on DEI frameworks, judicial appointments hostile to civil-rights enforcement, weakened voting protections, education policy shifts, or broader anti-equity political messaging, Black communities are often first to absorb structural fallout.

This is not merely about rhetoric.

It is about policy outcomes.

Black federal employees have historically represented a significant share of stable middle-class public-sector employment.

Civil service restructuring matters.

Voting-rights rollbacks matter.

Educational access matters.

Representation matters.

Yet too often, these stories are fragmented instead of connected.

That fragmentation serves power.

WHO DECIDES WHAT YOU SEE?

A handful of major corporate media entities, platform algorithms, wire services, and editorial gatekeepers still shape much of what the public consumes.

No, six people do not literally control 90% of global media.

But concentration is real.

Narrative power is real.

Agenda setting is real.

And silence can be as political as speech.

FINAL WORD

The question is not whether America has important stories.

The question is why some stories remain politically inconvenient.

Because if racism is merely a “failed narrative,” why do voting maps still trigger civil-rights litigation?

If third-term politics are unserious, why draft amendments?

If Project 2025 is harmless, why decades of infrastructure?

If Black America is overreacting, why repeated structural consequences?

Truth does not disappear because powerful people stop discussing it.

And history has a brutal habit of exposing what polite silence tries to hide.

Major media should remember that.

About the Author
Edmond W. Davis is a social historian, journalist, retired history professor, socioemotional intelligence expert, author of multiple historical texts, Arkansas’s first and only Tuskegee Airmen history textbook, and an international speaker. Davis had a role as a Shelby County Courtroom Jail Deputy on the NBC TV series Bluff City Law. He is a former director of the Derek Olivier Research Institute for the Prevention of Gun Violence. Davis is also the founder of the National HBCU Black Wall Street Career Fest and an Amazon #1 author. Contact him via www.edmondwdavis.com.

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