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It got way WAY worse with Trump. Many news organizations happily threw out their journalistic integrity to "fight Trump". Honest reporting became taboo. You

by q1w2 4y ago

It got way WAY worse with Trump. Many news organizations happily threw out their journalistic integrity to "fight Trump". Honest reporting became taboo. You were either FOR or AGAINST Trump, and anyone not choosing a side was just secretly on the other side.

brewdad 4y ago
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- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Some of the stuff they covered was ridiculous, too, but they guy was an absolute machine for creating gaffes and outrageous behavior. Giving him the same treatment as any other candidate would still have looked like "picking on him". If anything, they didn't pick on him enough for some things—I still can't believe the man became President after suggesting his supporters might assassinate his opponent, if she won. And that wasn't spin or bias, that's just what he did, the whole thing's available for anyone to watch. When he did that and his campaign kept trucking along without a hitch was the moment I decided our democracy itself was in danger (which turned out to be very right—maybe I should join a think-tank or become a political commentator or something, I also got a ton of the course of Iraq more-correct than most commentators)
- ecommerceguy 4y ago
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    - BeFlatXIII 4y ago
      The call to the Georgia Sec. of State asking to find 11,809 more votes was far closer to the genuine overthrow attempt.
- BeFlatXIII 4y ago
  …by covering the nonsense of the Trump show, they lessened the impact of the news of the real evil of the attempted overthrow. Instead of being presented as the danger it was, it was reduced to the season finale of the Trump show.
rewilding 4y ago
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- overrun11 4y ago
  It is inarguable that there were many examples of unfair or plainly factually wrong reporting on Trump. This list was compiled just a year in: http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won/ http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-rep... > But while you're looking, take note of how many articles were on substantive evils he was constantly committing. The implication you are making is that it's acceptable for the media to report inaccurately or unfairly if the subject deserves it.
rootusrootus 4y ago
> It got way WAY worse with Trump. Trump was a birther FFS. He was part of that lovely group of people who thought Obama was the antichrist for wearing a tan suit or eating arugula. He made media worse, not the other way around. They sullied themselves by pandering to his and his supporters' insanity. This happened way before he became president.

by q1w2 4y ago

brewdad 4y ago

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yamtaddle 4y ago
Some of the stuff they covered was ridiculous, too, but they guy was an absolute machine for creating gaffes and outrageous behavior. Giving him the same treatment as any other candidate would still have looked like "picking on him". If anything, they didn't pick on him enough for some things—I still can't believe the man became President after suggesting his supporters might assassinate his opponent, if she won. And that wasn't spin or bias, that's just what he did, the whole thing's available for anyone to watch. When he did that and his campaign kept trucking along without a hitch was the moment I decided our democracy itself was in danger (which turned out to be very right—maybe I should join a think-tank or become a political commentator or something, I also got a ton of the course of Iraq more-correct than most commentators)
ecommerceguy 4y ago
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- TheCoelacanth 4y ago
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  - BeFlatXIII 4y ago
    The call to the Georgia Sec. of State asking to find 11,809 more votes was far closer to the genuine overthrow attempt.
BeFlatXIII 4y ago
…by covering the nonsense of the Trump show, they lessened the impact of the news of the real evil of the attempted overthrow. Instead of being presented as the danger it was, it was reduced to the season finale of the Trump show.

rewilding 4y ago

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overrun11 4y ago
It is inarguable that there were many examples of unfair or plainly factually wrong reporting on Trump. This list was compiled just a year in: http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-reporters-have-run-since-trump-won/ http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/06/16-fake-news-stories-rep... > But while you're looking, take note of how many articles were on substantive evils he was constantly committing. The implication you are making is that it's acceptable for the media to report inaccurately or unfairly if the subject deserves it.

rootusrootus 4y ago

> It got way WAY worse with Trump. Trump was a birther FFS. He was part of that lovely group of people who thought Obama was the antichrist for wearing a tan suit or eating arugula. He made media worse, not the other way around. They sullied themselves by pandering to his and his supporters' insanity. This happened way before he became president.