Trump complains that the US media do not bend according to his will. Are you not? | Donald Trump

In the story of Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues, the US media are fake news that are filled with “radical left monsters” that have been guilty of “illegal” reporting about the president.

The reality is different.

Since Trump's choice, some US news organizations seem to end Trump's will, with more and more examples of billionaire owners who apparently put aside journalistic independence in order to stay in Trump's good grace.

Despite this consent, Trump continued to threaten journalists and Branding students “negative criminals” who “should be examined for election frauds”. In April he attacked “Radical Madness Democrats and their comrades in the fake news media” and added: “Those who lie to the American people in the name of violent criminal must be held responsible by the agencies and the courts.”

The attacks overlooked the way some outlets have undergone Trump's will – either by managers who disturbed careful complaints or wealthy owners to avoid disturbing Trump.

Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, ordered a revision to the editorial pages of the newspaper in February, which effectively amazed the criticism of the newspaper to Trump. The Los Angeles Times put her confirmation from Kamala Harris under pressure by Patrick Soon-Shiong, his billionaire owner.

In December, ABC News enclosed a Trump lawsuit, in a step in which First change expert could promote more attacks on the media. And in a different blow, the owner of CBS News about the processing of a Kamala Harris interview is to consider paying a lawsuit of USD 10 billion.

The New York Times reported that the lawyers of Paramount were planning to convey the topic with Trump, although legal experts reject the lawsuit as careless. CBS said his show has worked for 60 minutes one of Harris' answers to the time, a normal journalistic practice. Paramount is a sale in conversations that are to be sold to Skydance, a sale that must be approved by the Trump administration. Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, would end up a huge bottleneck if the deal continues and, according to The Times, announced the Board of Directors of Paramount that she deals with Trump.

“The people who bow to Trump are owners of all of these media or top management,” said Heather Hendershot, professor of communication sciences and journalism at Northwestern University.

“It is extremely problematic and it is absolutely driven by your profit limits. Jeff Bezos does not have to earn money with the Washington Post [Trump’s] Line.”

It wasn't always like that. Hendershot made a comparison with dealing with a complaint in the 1970s about the sale of the Pentagon documentary. At that time, CBS was instructed to hand over all film and sound recordings from the film, but the President of CBS, Frank Stanton, rejected the summons of the House Commerce Committee and risked to go to prison.

Today's CBS leadership seems to be less strong. In January, CBS decided to meet the request of the FCC after the publication of the “complete, unprocessed transcript and camera feed” of the Harris interview.

Semafor reported that the potential for Redstone zu Meddle reported in 60 minutes that Bill Owens, the executive producer of the show, left the flagship program at the beginning of this year.

“In the past few months, it has become clear that I must not lead the show, as I always managed to make independent decisions that were right for the audience on what was right for 60 minutes,” said Owens at the time.

Last week, eight democratic senators, including Bernie Sanders, wrote a letter to Redstone and Paramount Global, in which the lawsuit described the lawsuit as an “attack on the constitution of the United States and the first change” and asked them not to settle with Trump.

“It has absolutely no earnings and it cannot stand,” said the senators. They said Trump's lawsuit was “an obvious attempt to intimidate the media and those who speak against him”.

CBS News does not seem to have admitted that the lawsuit affects its reporting. At the beginning of this month, 60 minutes of a long report on Trump's presidential regulations for law firms carried out.

“In the past few weeks, President Trump has signed commands against several law firms – command with the authority to destroy them,” said Scott Pelley, host of 60 minutes at the beginning of the show. “This is important because complaints were a review of the power of the president.”

Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, a watchdog group, said that CBS News “continued to report hard about the Trump administration”.

“Will you go down the street for another six months, a year? We don't know,” said Gertz.

“The fact that we have to have these conversations is the fact that the president openly urges investigations into certain media – and that we have these institutions, apparently as an answer to find ways to take it into account – everything is not something that we should feel comfortable in a liberal democracy.”

Gertz said some owners made a misjudgment in the bow before Trump and overestimated his support among the voters and thus his ability to indicate the institutions he chose. However, the latest surveys have shown that Trump is deeply unpopular, even his support for Republicans.

“The landscape quickly moves under the feet of some of these corporate media owners, and they should recognize the recognition and spines and try to protect the crown jewels of the US -Free press that they monitor them,” said Gertz.

There is also a feeling that stopping with Trump about a specific problem could be the concern of a fool. Trump's insistence on wasted, undeniable reporting means that he is probably still upset about reporting on the mainstream media – even if an organization has drawn to him in an earlier story.

While Trump-Soothing movements can be continued in the background, journalists have largely resisted the direction in which the owners of their branches have entered. The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times continued to interview Trump's Presidency Excesses, as well as reporters elsewhere, although the threat from interference in the editorial process is higher than ever.

Gertz said: “We will never really know” whether the editors are forced to bow to the pressure of the owners.

“So much of what happens in the media is done in small private discussions in which editors and reporters try to decide what to cover and how to cover them. These stories that remain unpublished generally cannot say whether they should run, whether there was enough support for them,” he said.

“I think we don't know to a certain extent whether we have lost the free press until it is gone.”