Posted: Jun 12, 2018 12:46 am
I kind of get it, but despite thinking a lot of Trump's headline grabbing is a smokescreen for the more insidious actions of his administration, much of those actions that should be reported on would also get filter.
What we really need is for news organisations to not do Trump's bidding - by putting the latest deliberate idiocy front and centre of their news - but to prioritise what's actually important. Maybe just round up Trump's (and his media surrogates') daily soap opera into a single article so people can stay in the loop if they want to. But in a world where once-serious news outlets now report on who got voted off reality television shows, such resistance to clickbait seems too much to ask.
Also , Trumps media strategy is very skilled at merging the big issues and the soap opera (prime example: Mueller) so that the whole resulting mess can be written off as unsubstantial. It would take real discipline as a news organisation to stick to the meat, and avoid the paranoid "OMG Mueller's a secret Democrat! WITCH HUNT!!1!" tweets or whatever dumb shit Giuliani's said today. I can't think of a time when serious journalism was a harder job than now in the US.
What we really need is for news organisations to not do Trump's bidding - by putting the latest deliberate idiocy front and centre of their news - but to prioritise what's actually important. Maybe just round up Trump's (and his media surrogates') daily soap opera into a single article so people can stay in the loop if they want to. But in a world where once-serious news outlets now report on who got voted off reality television shows, such resistance to clickbait seems too much to ask.
Also , Trumps media strategy is very skilled at merging the big issues and the soap opera (prime example: Mueller) so that the whole resulting mess can be written off as unsubstantial. It would take real discipline as a news organisation to stick to the meat, and avoid the paranoid "OMG Mueller's a secret Democrat! WITCH HUNT!!1!" tweets or whatever dumb shit Giuliani's said today. I can't think of a time when serious journalism was a harder job than now in the US.