This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It’s part of why it was the media’s fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
A lot of those media journalists you suggest don’t have an obligation to journalistic responsibility … they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders
While “the media” certainly has its issues, it’s more of a convenient scapegoat than the root of the problem. Enough of us have access to all the information we could ever need to know this man was bad news and we decided it wasn’t worth the effort. You can blame the media for not making it easier but ultimately we didn’t do our jobs and become educated voters. That is our collective fault and no one else’s.
This is why news outlets should belong to us, not to billionaires. Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, John Henry owning The Boston Globe, Stanley Hubbard owning multiple local news outlets, Lee Enterprises owning 75 local newspapers, these are all HUGE problems.
I generally listen to their audio stuff pretty religiously, and podcasts like The Daily were fairly reliably reporting on Trump’s March toward fascism. They would even straight up use the work “fascism.”
That said, the NYT makes a lot of stuff, so maybe I missed out on something. I feel like their content adequately spooked me about what Trump’s plans were, and they motivated me to travel to a swing state to door knock.
I listen to the daily and even now they still use euphemisms for Trump’s lies instead of calling them lies. I understand it’s because you can’t know intent but it’s still annoying.
Noooooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
This is why plenty of us tried to warn people against voting for this dipshit motherfucker (not that people in a cult will listen). It’s part of why it was the media’s fucking job to report on how stupid his ideas were before he got fucking elected. Not necessarily The Atlantic specifically, but a lot of the media just fucking treated every insane thing he promised during the election as normal, valid, and like it could work. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility.
A lot of those media journalists you suggest don’t have an obligation to journalistic responsibility … they have a corporate responsibility to the company share holders
I don’t get how people don’t understand the role the media should play.
It should simply shine light on the truth and report the facts.
Instead they play politics, and abdicate that duty in favor of shock and schlock pieces.
If the media simply reported on Trump’s policy discussions factually, everyone would have seen this coming, to add to your point.
While “the media” certainly has its issues, it’s more of a convenient scapegoat than the root of the problem. Enough of us have access to all the information we could ever need to know this man was bad news and we decided it wasn’t worth the effort. You can blame the media for not making it easier but ultimately we didn’t do our jobs and become educated voters. That is our collective fault and no one else’s.
Oh it’s a problem, but not THE problem, that is a statement I can agree with
This is why news outlets should belong to us, not to billionaires. Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, John Henry owning The Boston Globe, Stanley Hubbard owning multiple local news outlets, Lee Enterprises owning 75 local newspapers, these are all HUGE problems.
Top media outlets are owned by the 1% And so…
Who, aside from the MAGA media (Fox, Sinclair, OAN, etc) and CNBC dumbasses hoping for tax cuts, reported on his policies being sane?
The New York Times jerked milquetoast over the whole nation. For one.
I generally listen to their audio stuff pretty religiously, and podcasts like The Daily were fairly reliably reporting on Trump’s March toward fascism. They would even straight up use the work “fascism.”
That said, the NYT makes a lot of stuff, so maybe I missed out on something. I feel like their content adequately spooked me about what Trump’s plans were, and they motivated me to travel to a swing state to door knock.
I listen to the daily and even now they still use euphemisms for Trump’s lies instead of calling them lies. I understand it’s because you can’t know intent but it’s still annoying.