pfff, stop blaming one person for a facist nation. it is the people. twice! twice they voted him into office. and those voters are also the content creators in social media. ofcourse those dumbasses trust themselves more than anyone else. idiocracy.
It’s inappropriate to blame the people when our current situation is eminently predictable. It is a law of human nature that when people get desperate enough, they will turn towards authoritarianism. When neither political party offers meaningful improvement in people’s lives, they turn to demagogues who promise to muscle change through and to punish the other. We are the same humanity that put the Caesars and Napoleon into power. Human nature hasn’t changed since ancient Rome. And desperation always brews dictatorship. Blaming the people for this is like blaming the people for the law of gravity.
And those who do then get branded with “TDS,” mocked, and ignored.
Journalism in the US is dead. Being shocked or angry at anything the news does or doesn’t say at this point is in “fools me twice, shame on me” territory.
You’d be better off asking Days of Our Lives to weigh in.
Journalism is not dead. Cable news/massive mega outlets are not conducting journalism. Lots of amazing outlets doing great work. 404 Media, for instance, has been crushing it lately.
I really like ProPublica and More Perfect Union.
We can all collectively thank Reagan, among other terrible things we have to deal with today due to his administration, he is also responsible for the state of news media in the US in 2025. Previous to Reagan we had a policy called The Fairness Doctrine, it was a policy introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. Broadcasters could show opposing viewpoints via option pieces, news segments or talk shows, but if they reported on one side they were required to show the other.
In 1987 under Reagan the FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine. Broadcasters were no longer required to air apposing viewpoints of controversial topics. This has directly lead to the echo chambers that you see in the news media today.
Just fyi it’s Reagan* not Regan.
obligatory: I’m glad Reagan dead.
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Because they are morons getting stuck in the personality cults on demand that social networks are? There’s plenty of news critical of Trump, but true news sources don’t try to radicalize their viewers either. They all have their biases, bus social networks are the epitome of bias and social engineering.
The last few days
I guess that technically correct, as long as you’re counting 4000 days as “the last few”
The billionaires control the media, and they want that money/influence train to keep rolling and not derailed by the government. Doing the bare minimum of whatever pleases both sides.
This is just wrong, all the media have criticized Trump from day one (except far right ones)
I’m sorry if basic facts come across as criticism? My headline today: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c20xel1e97gt
Social media ranking higher in trust isnt due to media accuracy. There are plenty of outlets that provide a consistent source of news. Its like the comments in here point to 5 bad news sites then smeer “news” as a whole. As if social media isnt 50x worse in every single metric.
Social Media ranks higher in trust because social media companies want users to trust the news they view on their platform. Social media “news” accounts constantly attack the reputation of traditional news outlets by pointing to bad news articles because they benefit directly from the audience losing trust.
You’re gonna sit there and tell me you want less factual news about current events and more opinion hit pieces?
Unhelpful ass walrus fuck
Why are you yelling at that mirror over there?
At what level of “verifiable” does an opinion become a fact?
Is “Elmer Fudd is out here to shoot Wabbits” a hit-piece?
We have articles saying “Elmer Fudd has a history of hunting Wabbits and has purchased a seasonal Wabbit hunting permit”
You want articles that say “Terrorist Elmer Fudd is a carnivorous madman who will stop at nothing to capture Wabbits, skin them alive, and offer their hearts to Satan because he’s such an idiot he thinks Satan is still a valid angel”
Let’s stick to the strict truth as it happens. If you want to criticize anything then it should be that they’re too conservative with their use of the term Terrorist or lack thereof. I respect Journalism as a career and I think there are many platforms and groups who do cover the news in a way that is enlightening and thought provoking.
The reason? People are stupid. Too much lead paint.
Yeah, fr, Journalists are out there risking their lives and being factual and impartial, but people like OP are being handfed by algorithms so as to not trust anyone but the hand.
Corpo journos are very partial and are often unfactual. Corporate media could disappear entirely and nothing of value would be lost.
Most American journalists and media outlets DO call Trump a stupid idiot, and they have been for the past decade.
You have to be living in an alternate reality to think Trump is liked by the establishment media. This is only true for Fox and a handful of other right wing media outlets.
Most American journalists and media outlets DO call Trump a stupid idiot, and they have been for the past decade.
Which popular media outlets are actively doing that? Because all I see is sane-washing his bullshit.
All of them? Are you seriously trying to tell me that the NYT or MSNBC US politics page are in any pro Trump? These outlets stopped being neutral and both siding things since the 2016 election.
You seriously going to claim the coverage of Biden’s mental acuity and Trump’s have been in any way whatsoever even-handed? Fucking seriously?? MSM drives narratives, and when a dem has any slip whatsoever it’s front page for days, whereas Trump spews insane nonsense daily and is clearly not mentally fit, but there is none of the bulldog-like insistence by the MSM to question his fitness for office, despite so, sooo much more evidence showing his complete lack of it.
Yes, there is. The big media outlets have been harping about how Trump has been a deranged moron for a decade now. Seriously, what alternate reality do you live in? The media has actually relatively positive of Biden. Them covering his mental decline is an exception, not the rule.
I’m telling you they sane wash his bullshit.
Where every Democrat president has to tiptoe and be perfect.
This is a reflection on the support bases of each party, not the media.
The American left is notorious for purity testing, gatekeeping, and infighting. They will criticize each other and be outright nasty to each other over everything. The more left you move, the more true this is. For whatever reason, the American left deems anything that doesn’t 100% align with their views to be either right wing, frauds, or traitors. Because of this, Democratic politicians have to walk around eggshells and try to appear perfect in order to try and appease everybody to secure votes.
The American right doesn’t have this issue. They don’t give a shit about anything. They don’t care if you’re senile, a felon, corrupt, unqualified, a grifter, a former Democrat, or full of shit. As long as you tell them Democrats are bad, this country is the best ever and its under attack, and that conservatism can fix it all, they will love you and adopt you no questions asked.
I caught a few minutes of MSNBC’s coverage of Trump’s military parade. They sounded like they had guns to their heads, trying to pretend like it was fun and normal.
We have to separate two distinct things. News media operates two different kinds of content. They have the news, and this is where they actual report the events as they are in professional manner, and they editorials and opinion segments, where they express their slant either themselves or by the guests they bring on. The former is probably what you saw, but if you go look at the latter, MSNBC is most definitely not pro-Trump’s military parade.
Here’s a few examples:
The ‘No Kings’ mass mobilization debunks Trump’s biggest myth
Republicans struggle to defend Trump’s military parade as tanks prepare to roll in D.C.
Stupid sells.
All the print media is bought by American state propaganda, and all the social media is manipulated by hostile foreign state propaganda.
Gonna have to start doing shit ourselves, like reporting.
