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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Trump is being normalized. Neither Obama or Hillary would be treated in the same manner. Hillary and Obama would be "Meghan Markeled" by the MSM. There would be no let up in press attacks. There would be no mention of how the Democratic legislators failed us. We would be getting constant articles that Obama or Hillary are crooks.
BTW, the GAO says Trump's OMB violated the law by withholding Ukraine funds. Republican Senators won't care.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 10:34am
On the other hand, there's the "don't feed the troll" thing that serious news organizations decided they were going to try to do at the start of his presidency.
I see a lot of Aaron Rupar's tweets and notice he does feed the troll quite a bit. That's okay, there's a roll for it. On Twitter. With all the downsides of Twitter included.
I also listen to NPR a lot in my car (truth: simply because I have a 2003 model radio with a broken CD player) and find them doing stories on what the Trump administration is actually doing. Which I have found helpful because watching Twitter and other websites, I find that I often spend too much time learning about whatever outrageous thing Trump said or tweeted that day. Seeing witty retorts to his wack fantasy narratives that have no relation to reality is a fun distraction. But then I do something like listen to NPR or go to a serious news website and see things that his cabinet is doing something important that I totally missed. Because I was spending so much time on his crazy unreal narcissist babble and narratives.
I do think that 32 seconds is the amount of coverage most of his rallies deserve. An argument could be made, I guess, that they should use more damning and passionately damning descriptives in their 37 seconds of coverage. But that's never been public radio's thing, hence the famous SNL skits about their politeness, erudity and daintiness to a fault in their non news shows. (Same with PBS.)
I was thinking the other day how much time he spends doing political rallies. I'd like to see more emphasis on that. That the taxpayers have to pay for his travel to and from these rallies which his staff has long admitted are done to keep his narcissist spirits up.Which aren't even done for sane political reasons, as certainly they don't add any converts to his base, they are merely preaching to the choir events.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 3:32pm
They don't care about his golf or giving classified info to Mar-a-Lago guests - why would they care about his rallies? God ordained him and blessed him - that's all you need to know. Now go forth and spread the word
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 3:31pm
this is a good reminder why we might not want media to feed the troll as much as many of them do:
“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
The impeachment trial probably won’t change any minds. Here’s why.
By Sean Illing @ Vox.com, Jan. 19
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 12:01am
p.s. I need to admit re reading Aaron Rupar's Vox article on Milwaukee now, in context of the above, is saying something different than I thought. At the same time, I still have some issues with it, and in thinking about this, I see a similarity in general between Vox and NPR approach, which I think is a correct one: don't react in real time with coverage and attention to every Trump outrage and absurdity, stand back and collate and do general analysis of the patterns instead.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 12:16am
Biden is using this skepticism of the news by lying about a recent critical video released by the Sanders campaign.
While it may be spin of the type that is common in campaigns the video was not doctored and it is not fake.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 12:43am