Can you imagine what would have happened if within 24 hrs of Trump being a convicted criminal, every NYT opinion writer and the Editorial Board called on him to step down. And then the media found 1 or 2 elected Republicans to say he should step down and kept highlighting them, and found some big money donors who were Haley supporters and would publicly say they could no longer support Donald Trump as the first former president to be a convicted criminal in history?
The U.S. media is a joke.
@DebErupts Our media has absolutely failed us. I don't even know who to read anymore to get the news.
BUT...would this actually have made a difference? Isn't that what the National Review tried in 2016? Isn't that what happened with the Access Hollywood tape? Isn't Trump's superpower that he brushes criticisms and reality aside and his fanatical base sticks with him?
@ThisAccountKillsFascists @DebErupts Exactly. Why people are so insistent that the newspapers attempt to shame a man without shame baffles me.
The only reason anyone makes these calls with Biden is that he has enough decency and self-awareness that he might actually listen.
It has nothing to do with shame and everything to do with building a narrative that the candidate the for-profit media decides to gang up on can't win.
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@joeinwynnewood @ThisAccountKillsFascists @DebErupts The whole "our candidate is unpopular because of an evil media conspiracy" schtick was old even back when Trump and his supporters were using it.
@joeinwynnewood @LouisIngenthron @ThisAccountKillsFascists @DebErupts Correlation does not imply causation.
Not at all sure who you are talking to nor what about.
The cause behind the for-profit media's feeding frenzy on Biden's age while mostly ignoring Trump's fire hose of lies and SCOTUS' intertwined judicial coup is immaterial to the fact and hugely negative ramifications of what they are doing.
@joeinwynnewood @LouisIngenthron @ThisAccountKillsFascists @DebErupts I'm responding to the first post in this thread, by Deborah Rose. Sorry I replied to the wrong comment!
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So the media isn't actively pursuing a feeding frenzy over Biden's debate performance, I'm hallucinating
This count is from BEFORE the debate - https://www.mediamatters.org/washington-post/top-newspapers-fixate-bidens-age
It's gotten far worse since.
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