• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    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.

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      12 days ago

      Don’t forget the morons who didn’t vote for the dipshit because of their virtue signaling about ONE war happening across the world while completely ignoring the impact the orange doofus had on the OTHER one.

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      12 days ago

      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.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        12 days ago

        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.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      12 days ago

      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

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      12 days ago

      Who, aside from the MAGA media (Fox, Sinclair, OAN, etc) and CNBC dumbasses hoping for tax cuts, reported on his policies being sane?