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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
You're looking waaaaay too small picture here. The only thing keeping order and preventing autocracy is trust in the institutions themselves. Destroying trust in the media castrates it's effectiveness to hold these other institutions accountable. By turning the media into what Trump says it is you help him hold onto that power. It doesn't help, and creates lasting, long term damage.
Here's a good summary of my thoughts from yesterday:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/o...-own.html?_r=0 |
Trump polls ahead of the media when it comes to trust and consistently has for a while now. What the #### can the media do to counter that? In the hyper partisan world of America no less? It's like Congress with the approvals in the teens, and the 90% incumbent winning rate. It's "the other guys" media we don't trust, our media never lies. Media's goal is profit first, and the growth of hyper-partisanism has been a godsend for the media. Perhaps the real goal should be banning for profit news, but people have shown they'd rather watch FOX and CNN than PBS. There's more or less nothing that can be done other than to play the game the way the current set up is. Acting like the system can be changed is a losing approach. You gotta use the system as best you can, but you can't change it.