FrameLab: No middle ground

Corporate media pretends to be neutral by trying to find a middle ground between ideologies. Yet there isn't one when it comes to authoritarianism* and democracy. In effect corporate media are tacitly supporting the former by making it seem like both sides are extreme when only one side, democracy, is the goal. And not some watered down version that compromises with authoritarians either. In this post FrameLab notes:

"There is no middle ground between authoritarianism and democracy. [...] In reality, there is no such thing as a moderate ideology. There is no single worldview, no single set of beliefs that all moderates have in common. [...] So, if there’s no single set of positions that define a moderate or middle in politics, how can the press go about seeking a neutral position for itself?"

"The political journalism establishment tends to seek a nonexistent middle ground between 'the left' and 'the right.' This mythical 'midpoint' is supposed to be a neutral place. But this erroneous framing can be easily hacked to reward extremism and enable authoritarianism. A flawed definition of 'moderate' allows anti-democratic political actors to game the system."

*I go further that calling it only 'authoritarianism' is itself minimizing what it is. As numerous political pundits from both major parties assert: It's outright fascism. And there is obviously no middle ground or compromise with that.