opelmanta1900 wrote:So we are in agreement that the mainstream media has become tmz...
The media "mentioned" Obama murdering lots and lots of innocent civilians...
But they "exorcise" trump for tweeting stupid stuff...
Because murder is worth mentioning, but tweeting is 24/7 news...
Meh...
It's the ultimate outcome of advertising based news sources.
Stories which remain in the news do so because they get eyes.
A story saying the obama administration admits to killing civilians with drones gets a day or two. It doesn't get more because Obama doesn't then do something sensationalist. So it dies. We still know about it, so the news function was performed.
A story about trump administration separating kids at the border gets a day or two. Then his DHS head lies that they arent.... that's another day... then Trump tweets a photo of animals in cages or something stupid like that (I'm sure he tweeted something stupid about that scandal) that's another day or two.... then his kid tweets something about it... that's another day or two... then they try to get a law changed so they can legally separate kids at the border for up to 2 years... that's another day or two... and on and on.
He refuses to let things go. If a news story says his hands are tiny, he'll literally drag it up over and over again for decades. that keeps the news cycle going.
You want our news to not be based on what's sensational?
Then donate to PBS.