Journalism is in the Toilet

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(03-25-2021, 11:30 AM)Dill Wrote: "Stuff" may now be done to Harris, at the rhetorical level, but the provocation is hardly the same. 

She has not called war heroes "losers" or denigrated the service of POWs. 

We are going back to the Obama era when the RWNM were calling out the President mostly for nothing
--and it worked for their audience. 

Will it work this time around? I am less sure it can, given Trump's legacy.

The right wing media can't get anything to stick with these guys but it doesn't mean they won't stop trying.  Trump had the same problem during the election.  His tried and true ways of attacking didn't work and he was lost.  All we are left with are the conspiracies and half-truths that his supporters continue to spread as gospel because they believed Trump above all else.

For four years plus Trump did or said something and if it was even repeated it was attacked as "fake news" or being biased against him.  Even when there was video and a direct quote.  Substantive things, not just Melania's coat.  Windmills cause cancer (they say), very fine people on both sides, the virus will just disappear.

DJT loves attention and he loves chaos.  He could deliberately say something to start a fight so he could play the victim or in other instances he could just be uninformed and then double down that he's the only one smart enough to understand.

Contrasted to the scandals of Obama's tan suit, the way he held a gun, Michelle baring her shoulders or not dressing "right" on the way to vacation.

Contrasted with Harris doesn't salute and Biden's dog bit someone.

There will be actual issues that will get talked about but they have to fill 24 hour news cycles and that gives too much time to the BS.  Especially when it is a "news" company like Newsmax or OAN that is desperately trying to grab a very specific audience.  News for clicks.  

And again, to me, that is separate from "journalism".