Wow! Thanks for mentioning that. I went off to college during part of that election, and that was really memory-holed. I vaguely remember that it was when Fox News started seeming ubiquitious, but beyond that, I don't remember media coverage then.
Trump is the best of both worlds for lazy political reporters because they don’t have to care about policy and they can cast themselves as bold defenders of democracy under the guise of describing autocratic actions as “bizarre” or “unusual.”
we already know the answers we'll get. it's up to us to make it clear to both parties, the establishment and ourselves that presidential immunity is an erasure of our rights
Do they think Trump or his lackeys will give a single infintesimal shit that you did softball interviews and fluffing if dismantling (insert legacy media outlet here) will get his rally crowds to cheer?
It saddens me. Its part of the reason we got him in 2016. I figured after seeing what that got us they would not do the same thing just to sell papers or ad time on MSNBC. My conclusion is I am an idiot.
Apart from which, Trump has never made a joke. Not once. Jokes contain punchlines, they are surprising. Trump hurling venom and abuse at people, which is literally all he does, is not surprising and it's not jokes. Its just an angry old man. Hey, maybe that is funny but not how these shits think
I kept trying to tell everyone that the news media absolutely supported a permanent Trump regime and they kept on trying to explain to me that no no whatever news source they were in love with no it was some complicated thing about clicks and whatever Rube Goldberg attempted explanation
Honestly, when trump wins and unleashes his hillbilly rage army on press members and they act all shocked, we should collectively tell them to fuck off
The criminal vapidity of the press is astounding. We're being destroyed by a mob of giggling airheads, who are happily goose-stepping in line because fascism is fun and complaining about it is uncool and earnest and cringe.
"Is he still the same charming, lovable rogue I remember on The Apprentice?" they ask, twirling the phone cord around their fingers while on their back on a pink canopy bed surrounded by Trump posters
They know they got eyeballs in the trump years and lost them in the Biden years. They think a second trump term will mean more views, and therefore more job security
It's crazy, if you watch an snl of bush v gore, the joke was they were the same, no difference.
Thinking how in the world did we ever feel Gore and Bush were just the same, and how that led to a general apathy about the whole thing.
They were so in the tank then and this is exactly what it looked like.
It worked for them, too, they got decades of Iraq & Afghanistan coverage, plus some fucked up disaster responses. Big win for the media.
