It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
Yeah the only people worse than that motherfucker are the myriad of motherfuckers who've enabled him and a lot of them are in media.
OMG, so true!!
@Remittancegirl
I've been sick to death of right wing politics, policy, and politicians for my entire adult life. Beginning with Reagan, his 'kitchen cabinet', the heritage foundation, gingrich, and many others of their ilk since
trump wasn't the start of this crap, and his passing won't mark the end of it
I see the problem with news coverage (narrowing scope, whatever) as having more to do with failure of the business model supporting it. Of course, right wing policy wins contributed to that
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But just what is the failure of the media business model?
Could it be the for-profit model, typically by major corporate owners with numerous conflicting interest before the government?
Taken together, that's a powerful incentive to avoid holding power to account while also skewing content to appease your advertisers.
#MediaMustDoBetter
@davidbraze @cstross @Remittancegirl
This. Remember when Drudge started becoming the instigator of news? It’s only escalated from there.
This hits especially hard for me. I got told I was being laid off in a bloodbath of an acquisition on a Monday back in 2016. Tuesday was the election. That also ended my time in Boston.
It was a very sharp discontinuity that destroyed the entire life I'd built up to that point. I landed on my feet, but it's different. Possibilities and aspirations faded out, and I know at this point they're never coming back.
I feel like I've been living in a campsite amidst ruins ever since.
@Remittancegirl @jzb I remember thinking what a relief it was, after Biden was elected, to not have to be constantly hearing about US politics for a while. (As a non-American.) It dialed back down to only a 'normal' amount of news for a while.
(and then, of course, when the multi-year presidential election process started up again, it returned to the previous ridiculous levels.)
I agree, the BBC are guilty of this, when Trump was elected and took office we had 100 days, covering the first 100 days of his presidency and yet despite being the BRITISH broadcasting corp, we didn't get 100 days of Starmers premiership.
@_elena @Remittancegirl All the wrong things being normalised fodder for herds of humans. It continues to drive me to despair to see all around me people clinging tightly to their phones with thick headphones on their ears and scant consequential regard for environment or others.
Most people turn corners without slowing down even when not on their phones as modern life is oblivious to strangers - no preempting, no sense of a shared of the public space. No care.
@NicelyManifest @_elena @Remittancegirl
It's the controversy that the social media discovered keeps us engaged. Engaged eyeballs makes them $$$.
#Trump in particular with his old man, bigoted, dementia ways generated easy money like no other.
I'm sick of hearing about him and will often force myself to not even click something that mentions him. Some days that's harder to do than others. He's in so much of the news like a malignant skin rash.
@MyWoolyMastadon @_elena @Remittancegirl To me it is the combination of endless fraud by Trump - mega-insidertrading - and the enabling of that by a political system that almost entirely fails to hold him to account on any matter.
The whole system stinks.
@Remittancegirl I spent ten years warning people to not enable or elect him. Yet the most common American reply I am getting is: "he is one of us". That seems to be the creepy sentiment shared throughout society.
I worry, people enable him because they want to be like him... 😑
@Remittancegirl yeah, it's frightening and absolutely nonsensical for me how one can even consider this. This is so not how American PR presents the country 😑
I hope people will wake up. All over the world.
@danielsreichenbach @Remittancegirl
Halfway into Trump's first term, I realized ‘he’s one of us’ was really shorthand for rejecting brown and Black people.
@danielsreichenbach @Remittancegirl
I live in a very red area and have noticed that many people here, including some of my family members, are tribal to the point that one loud intimidating voice keeps the others toeing the MAGA line. It also tends to degrade their mental and moral growth. Churches are also extremely culpable here, as is Faux news.
@Remittancegirl it's ok, he will die soon.
That is, by the way, why i set up whatstupidshitdidhedotoday.com.
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