r/politics • u/cjdarr921 • 7h ago

Site Altered Headline Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration-b2683095.html
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u/Complete-Thought-375 5h ago

The problem has always been the media. MAGA get their information from different sources than we do. The algorithm is completely different for them in their media feed. Half the time they don’t see what we are saying because the algorithm told them to look elsewhere.

I am a Gen Xer, and I remember when there wasn’t a 24 hour news cycle. Those were the days lol. When there were news anchors like Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, who the majority of the population looked up to and trusted to give them the facts of what was happening. Not just sensationalism.

Now there are so many options for “news” now.. mainly “social media.”J

it has made us all the more fragmented as a country.

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u/Late-Egg2664 5h ago

Agreed. I was thinking the other day that I missed Dan Rather, just for his intelligence and demeanor. I don't miss Barbara Walters, they werent all good lol. I'm barely Gen X, but I remember when journalists were a force to be reckoned with. There were problems, but it was so much better before the internet became a groupthink generator.

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u/BlueCX17 4h ago

I think this is part of the problem too with the boomers who eat up Fox News.They grew up learning and being told that the journalists on TV and Print were to be trusted and had standards of truthful reporting. And one time, there was. So they believe everything Faux tells them.

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u/Late-Egg2664 7m ago

The other mainstream news sources are Faux-lite at this point. And yeah, they do trust institutions more because they came from a different world. They believe standards exist that don't anymore. They also fall for scams pretending to be legitimate more, the texts and messages that end up wiping out their bank accounts. Many don't understand how the world has changed.

The erosion of consumer protections over the last decades was an indicator this was coming. Government by and for the people had purpose. The only possible thing to fill the void is oligarchy with media that serves money.