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Good lord
I'm so sick of the media hysteria, there's no restraint or nuance anymore. He could literally come out and say he wanted to kill the Jews and the media outrage would be no worse than the time when he called a woman beautiful.
[QUOTE=Jack32;52598546]I'm so sick of the media hysteria, there's no restraint or nuance anymore. He could literally come out and say he wanted to kill the Jews and the media outrage would be no worse than the time when he called a woman beautiful.[/QUOTE]
No, I think the media outrage would be apocalyptic for him if he said something that stupid.
[QUOTE=Jack32;52598546]I'm so sick of the media hysteria, there's no restraint or nuance anymore. He could literally come out and say he wanted to kill the Jews and the media outrage would be no worse than the time when he called a woman beautiful.[/QUOTE]
It's like crying wolf. He's an entertainer so whatever he get's a lot of content from Trump it's expected. The media though really needs to know when a Trump action is dire enough to actually cry wolf. What an utter blunder Trump did with the white supremacists.
[QUOTE=Jack32;52598546]I'm so sick of the media hysteria, there's no restraint or nuance anymore. He could literally come out and say he wanted to kill the Jews and the media outrage would be no worse than the time when he called a woman beautiful.[/QUOTE]
if you strive for restraint and nuance, and your first target is the media's attitude on trump instead of the living GTA character that is trump himself, it's fair to say you never gave a shit about restraint and nuance in the first place
i find it insanely hypocritical how people act horrified at trump's treatment of the media only to turn around and blame america's political apathy on the media just for reporting on his actions.
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i mean if you're getting this from TV news alone i can see where you would get that impression but each person has to be at least partly responsible for their own ignorance. there are many, many options available to you as far as reporting goes.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;52598791]i find it insanely hypocritical how people act horrified at trump's treatment of the media only to turn around and blame america's political apathy on the media just for reporting on his actions.[/QUOTE]
It's not necessarily hypocritical. Trump rails against the media for not spreading the lies he wants told, or for telling anything negative about him.
The news media needs to do a better job of reporting - better experts, better focus on things that actually matter, fewer manufactured spectacles, more in-depth investigation and reporting, less advertiser sway over content - but Trump doesn't want them to do that. He wants them to literally tell the lies he tells them to tell.
The current situation is suboptimal; Trump's desired future is outright anti-optimal. It can be logically self-consistent for one to be a critic of both the status quo of the news media, and Trump's verbal abuse of them for providing any sort of resistance.
Not necessarily everyone holds such a coherent set of beliefs, but some do.
i totally agree with you that the burden is on certain news organisations to produce better material, but can't we also make some expectations for people? to be equally discerning? that's the hypocrisy to me
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