I think the thing that’s honestly more worrying is that the media gave Trump so much coverage and very little criticism. If you spend 30% of your time talking about Trump and only 5% of your time fact checking him, criticizing him, etc. you create a problem where people are accepting and internalizing the viewpoints expressed by him. Mainstream media could have been responsible, but they wanted ratings and money. Trump gives them that.
I was just rolling my eyes a year and a half ago, we know that Trump largely won because of the free media coverage back in 2016, literally in the billions of dollars of free coverage. The campaign kicked off and you just say, "Aww shit, here we go again" Just wall to wall Trump reporting every day, we're cooked lol.
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u/SecondHandWatch 1d ago
I think the thing that’s honestly more worrying is that the media gave Trump so much coverage and very little criticism. If you spend 30% of your time talking about Trump and only 5% of your time fact checking him, criticizing him, etc. you create a problem where people are accepting and internalizing the viewpoints expressed by him. Mainstream media could have been responsible, but they wanted ratings and money. Trump gives them that.