This take only works if the new media is reporting on Trump accurately and factually.
The problem is that they are not. Organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post spend most of their wordcount trying to wrangle the vile nonsense that Trump is spewing into something intelligent and legible, often by lying or misrepresenting his words. They’re not reporting his atrocities, they’re whitewashing them, and we should absolutely call that out as complicity.
Can you provide some examples of WaPo articles that did this? Everything I read that I can recall listed his statements in context and gave the actual facts.
They’re not reporting his atrocities, they’re whitewashing them, and we should absolutely call that out as complicity.
I agree with that but that’s not generally the criticism leveled at the media for their coverage of Trump’s awful and outrageous statements.
Basically you’re saying the media should cover Trump more and more critically. OP’s comic is suggesting that the media is blame for giving Trump coverage, for reacting to Trump.
I guess you’re right. For the comic to really be accurate, it’d need a panel with the news saying “Awful man has solid ideas and policy regarding the economy.”
There is too much blame to go around, and not enough people and orgs wanting to acknowledge blame.
Trump did not become a household name randomly. He was helped and aided by many. And I have noticed hundreds of times how the main stream media enabled his word salad and gave it meaning and power. In real life, not many people listen to blathering hateful idiots.
I wish we could purge this idiotic nonsense.
The media reporting on the awful outrageous things didn’t elect Trump. The voters who voted for Trump elected Trump.
It’s news when Trump says awful outrageous things and they should be covered more, not less.
Otherwise you end up ‘obeying in advance.’
Fucking shithead morons still blaming the media instead of Trump and Trump’s voters. Stop it.
This take only works if the new media is reporting on Trump accurately and factually.
The problem is that they are not. Organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post spend most of their wordcount trying to wrangle the vile nonsense that Trump is spewing into something intelligent and legible, often by lying or misrepresenting his words. They’re not reporting his atrocities, they’re whitewashing them, and we should absolutely call that out as complicity.
Can you provide some examples of WaPo articles that did this? Everything I read that I can recall listed his statements in context and gave the actual facts.
I agree with that but that’s not generally the criticism leveled at the media for their coverage of Trump’s awful and outrageous statements.
Basically you’re saying the media should cover Trump more and more critically. OP’s comic is suggesting that the media is blame for giving Trump coverage, for reacting to Trump.
I guess you’re right. For the comic to really be accurate, it’d need a panel with the news saying “Awful man has solid ideas and policy regarding the economy.”
There is too much blame to go around, and not enough people and orgs wanting to acknowledge blame.
Trump did not become a household name randomly. He was helped and aided by many. And I have noticed hundreds of times how the main stream media enabled his word salad and gave it meaning and power. In real life, not many people listen to blathering hateful idiots.