So calling a politician a Nazi is bad but not calling someone gay Muslim Marxist or a first lady a tranny is perfectly fine? Oblama was referenced as Hitler also, yeah stupid huh?
This thread isn't about the warring tribes. Not about what we say or do. It's about the meltdown of the media. We HAVE no "trusted sources of news" anymore. We have partisan shills who have chucked their journalism ethics and principles shouting Nazi and honoring porn stars as war heroes.
There is still a lot of good journalism out there...I think it gets lost in the political trash talking. Take for example the recent expose (buried here) on rank corruption in the VA or coverage of the opiod crisis. I think we tend to like blame the media for the shortcomings of our politicians. Meanwhile...journalists are being murdered and jailed around the world for trying to report the news.
Journalists gettting jailed around the world is not our problem. The trash talking has become the FEATURE of American journalism. Daily outrages that die by sundown because of lack of fact or substance. Rank corruption in the VA is not really solved, because the media is not identifying the guilty and holding them responsible. Nothing ever gets fixed because the media has less attention span than your average squirrel. We need reforms that let us FIRE the guilty and bring IMMEDIATE relief for the promises we've made.
A lot of reporting on the Opium crisis has been opportunistic. Blaming ONE company for making a LESS addictive time release tablet that deviants can CRUSH and get around the protection. That's a NEGATIVE incentive to fixing anything. But you wouldn't know it from the media.
The "birther" thing? That's all you got? How much time did Fox news spend on that? Hardly any. Even Limbaugh wouldn't even sign on to it. He SATIRiZED it -- never really promoted it.
All your offering is diversions to the literal CRAPFEST that fills the airwaves to feed the "resistance" From the moment the sun rises on Morning Joe to The Last Word at midnight. It's all whining and gossip and speculation and red meat to feed the zealots. As soon as the Nazi Fest started --- and I SAW IT on CNN/MSNBC --- it was not 6 hours before I logged on to USMB and saw members making references to "measuring kids for lampshades" at the border... True story. It's a sickness that pumping a major civil conflict in this country. And they are losing their minds AND their effectiveness..