The last year they've been going non-stop with the anti-China shit. Now they're dropping all pretext and are just running stories like "So when we gonna start war with China, fwends? UwU"
I don't care what you think about China. This shit is stupid. We don't need war in the middle of a pandemic, even if it just ends up being a trade war. We'd lose that war. Call me a paranoid freak but this kind of shit terrifies me.
Other way around is probably more accurate. The Democrats are in part the bureaucratic wing of the mainstream media, since the media is the propaganda arm of the bourgeoisie. Although that's not even what reactionaries mean. They mean they saw a gay person on TV and got pissed off