The Media Is Giving Us 2016 Flashbacks
After four indictments, two impeachments, and one insurrection, Donald Trump shouldnât be covered like a conventional candidate. And yet.
âWhat is a bit different from the lead-up to 2016 is that Trump, despite his tumultuous absence from government, is now the de facto leader of the Republican Party. And for the most part, the GOP primary contest appears to be a pathetic competition for the vice presidency. (Chris Christie, at least, has the self-respect to openly condemn Trump.)â
âWell, weâre told heâs too old. And while Biden may be two and a half years Trumpâs senior, you wouldnât know it by the looks of a recent AP-NORC poll, which noted that the president is âwidely seen as too old for officeââeven if âTrump has problems of his own.â Problems of his own? Is that the multiple indictments or the civil charges? Google searching âIs Biden too old?â bears countless results. Meanwhile, search âTrump is too old,â and youâll get stories about Bidenâs age. Which raises the question: How much does writing about something make it real in the eyes of the electorate? If Hillary lost the 2016 election to âbut her emails,â could Biden lose 2024 to âbut his ageâ?â
âThis week, we can all expect Welker to go through the same media meat grinder for facing off with Trump. But to what end? Giving the public a âbetter understandingâ of the terrifying autocrat weâve all been watching for the past eight years? Trump, who has been lying for years about the last presidential election, no longer deserves to get the benefit of the doubt heading into the next one. And there is no reason for the media to give it to him.â
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/2024-election-media-donald-trump-joe-biden-2016
With it’s lust for sensationalism, clicks and $$$PROFIT, most of the news media has become a promoter and enabler of fascism.
Thank goodness for the good ‘ole Grauniad – even though they, too, like their sensationalism.
To repeat someone else’s comment, “The first thing I do every morning when I wake up, is to ask Alexa, “is he dead yet?” đđ
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