The media for the last eight years should just be running a weekly column called “This time Trump went too far and now his supporters will turn on him” and then they can just recap Trump’s actions from the previous week. Meanwhile his poll numbers will remain exactly the same as always.
This… the media is made up of businesses with shareholders. They do and say what is best for those shareholders. Not what is best for us, or the country, or the planet, or anything else.
Expecting them to do otherwise in the system they exist in is delusional.
Sadly, the fairness doctrine doesn’t seem like it was particularly constitutional. I suppose you could argue that a corporation has no right to free speech. Getting into that debate would be complicated. But that seems like the only way to fix this.
The media for the last eight years should just be running a weekly column called “This time Trump went too far and now his supporters will turn on him” and then they can just recap Trump’s actions from the previous week. Meanwhile his poll numbers will remain exactly the same as always.
Thats assuming the media (especially the broadcast media…) reports on what he did truthfully and with the full details.
Which they rarely, if ever, do.
because they have a vested financial and ratings based interest in the chaos he creates, because it drives ratings and enriches them.
This… the media is made up of businesses with shareholders. They do and say what is best for those shareholders. Not what is best for us, or the country, or the planet, or anything else. Expecting them to do otherwise in the system they exist in is delusional.
and you can blame the elimination of the fairness doctrine for the bulk of that.
Because, like everything, it sucks because the Republicans fucked it up so they could manipulate it to their advantage.
Sadly, the fairness doctrine doesn’t seem like it was particularly constitutional. I suppose you could argue that a corporation has no right to free speech. Getting into that debate would be complicated. But that seems like the only way to fix this.
The only truth Trump ever told was when he said he could shoot a civilian on Times Square and not lose any voters.