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Pretty sure all the media attention for it gave it this status.

• api 5y ago
  People are still unable to understand this about Trump. When he makes you mad and you cover him, you are giving him publicity and that's what he wants.
  • kkoncevicius 5y ago
    Feeding on anger so that readers engage with you seems to be one the principle ways modern media operates. They cover Trump because their viewers get mad which translates into clicks which translates into ad revenue. I think making people hate Trump and at the same time keep talking about Trump is the business strategy here.
    • aksss 5y ago
      "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken Not just the government, but collusion with institutional and social media creates a profit incentive to sow discord, divisiveness. I was alive in the eighties and remember the religious right - the attitudinal support from mainstream media, etc. Today's politics look like a secular religious left. Not much different in the dynamic of the followers/leaders, the social glare they cast, the censorship. We really do learn nothing from the past - we all think we're living in 'unprecedented times' but I see more of the same, every year.
  • tharne 5y ago
    > People are still unable to understand this about Trump. When he makes you mad and you cover him, you are giving him publicity and that's what he wants. Oh, I think the media understands this quite well. What they understand even better is that: Trump = Rage = Eyeballs = Ad $$$