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Originally Posted by New Era
And what caused those numbers? The absolute garbage job done by those who claim to be journalists. That ain't what let's me sleep at night, its what keeps me awake at night. If these hacks that claim to be journalists employed some critical thinking skills and actually did some quality research, things may have been much different. The numbers don't lie. The people who voted for Trump were grossly misinformed of the facts of what was going on. That falls on the journalists and the incompetent hacks who claim to be journalists. We are where we are because people have tuned the media out, predominantly because they consider them a bunch of ambulance chasers more interested in fame than performing the job of oversight expected by the public at large.
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Most people believe what they want to believe. There were all kinds of stories in the media exposing Trump's incompetence and corruption. True believers ignored that stuff, assuming it was lies peddled by a mainstream media in the pocket of the Clintons and Wall Street. It doesn't help that Americans
overwhelmingly believed that the mainstream media backed Clinton. Others didn't know the worst about Trump because the media landscape today is so fragmented and partisan that there are few agreed-on facts. And yet other voters looked at the facts about Trump and voted for him anyway because they thought the alternative was worse.
Get used to it. By the time the next presidential election rolls around the mainstream media will be even more marginalized, and the number of agreed-on facts will be even smaller. The partisans on the left and right (and the other political identities that have appeared) will live in essentially different realities.