• jonne@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    I hate that they let Trump flip flop on pretty much any issue, while holding everyone else (rightly) to account for stuff like that. Just because everything he says is basically an unintelligible word salad.

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      It’s not just can’t flip flop, they are held to their word for decades, while trump’s words seem to last about 5 minutes.

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      It’s also because they can’t run headline after headline with “Trump lied” and expect to get clicks. News has become an engagement farm where in the past newspapers and other media were less, well, engaging.

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        Yeah, that’s definitely part of the problem, although some of it has to do with both sidesing everything in the name is neutrality. If 99% of scientists say climate change is happening and there’s like one scientist who’s clearly on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry, your job is to expose those links, not to give both sides equal time.

        They’re treating the Republican party like a normal party that acts in good faith, and they haven’t been like that since Nixon.