Since news became a profit center, that typically hasn't happened. The Washington Post and L.A. Times is on the Trump train now.
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I know you were being (partly) satirical but there's long been a shocking lack of economic literacy among the general public.
THe entire media went with "the economy is a dystopian hellscape" even while record numbers of vacation rentals were booked, there were record numbers of airline flights, record concert and sports attendance, new attractions opening almost daily, a new restaurant or other type of business being built on every spare inch of land. But to hear people talk, and the media, we were all in bread lines.
When (not if)? Canada is a confederation of 10 provinces. Canadian provinces have more authority than do US states. If anything, Canada should be 10 states but 10 or one, Canada would not submit voluntarily. The US first tried to conquer Canada in 1812. It didn't work then. It won't work now.Maybe it'll be easier when Canada is the 51st state.
And it was the WaPo and the New York Times, typically cast as "far-left establishment media", that parroted those talking points and cast them as fact. But you'll never see them correctly identified as "right-leaning" because it contradicts the narrative.
There was daily reporting on CNN the last few years about "Is there going to be a recession?!" It never actually happened.
There's also some "CBS News Plus" streaming/online show that had its first episode yesterday, interviewing parents who won't get their kids vaccinated against measles. Get those outrage viewers to goose the first show's streaming numbers, CBS News Plus.
I've started watching Deutsche Welle news, NHK News, etc.
It's as if they've been rooting for it just to spite MAGA. I'm sorry, I'm as anti-MAGA as anyone but being a retiree and nearing 70, I don't want to see my IRA shrivel just in time for me to start drawing down from it. When it comes to the stock market, even the "experts" can't be anywhere close to sure what will happen tomorrow, let alone over the course of the next year. It is continually subject to what Alan Greenspan once called "irrational exuberance" as well as the polar opposite. Even false news reports or hoaxes have been known to trigger spasms of panicky sell-offs, often exacerbated by non-human program trading. I'd be happy if all the news/opinion networks just reported that day's facts and figures and leave the future to the gamblers who actively play the trading game.
As we've seen in news radio, just reporting the facts isn't an audience grabber.
It came out of Usenet, actually, and the thing that people misunderstand about it was that it was descriptive in nature, not normative. I would see people in Usenet newsgroups try to use it as a brake on discussions. That never worked. It's more about the deterioration of discourse over time as people back into their corners and take ever more extreme positions. It wasn't a tool, as such.
In any event, in the present context of Trump this and Trump that, I think the more apt comparison is to Anthony Fremont.
What I don't want to see is a default on Treasury notes. They underpin the world's markets. When the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. government no longer can be assumed, the knock-on effects are going to be tremendous. The MAGA propaganda outlets won't be able to wave them off as fake news.
The next vote on the debt limit next month is going to be a nail-biter. Expect a lot of noise surrounding it from both news and propaganda outlets.
What puzzles me about the whole "51st state" thing is this: do the MAGA types in the United States really want Québec? Do they have any inkling of what they would be in for?
That is a fallacious argument worthy of a medal.
The upper middle class has money and is spending it. The traditionally-called-blue-collar worker is unable to pay for a dozen eggs, let alone rent a vacation property or do the other things you mention. And that is precisely the group that moved its "color" in the past elections.
I think most of us realize that the whole Canada-as-a-State thing is a negotiating point and was brough up to quell the rather unpopular attitudes of Trudeau.
That is true, regardless of whether one is left, right, or center. Much of this should be taught in high school, but instead, high schools seem to strive to be farm clubs for collegiate athletics.
If so, it's backfired spectacularly in Canada. Pierre Polievre suddenly had his best talking points evaporate.
Didn't know that...always thought of those as "establishment left" like NYT meaning very right leaning left. But CNN I can't look at the same way after airing Bill Maher on off hours...I thought of them better than that, even if it's to provide "variety" in their lineup.
CNN has MAGA troll Scott Pressler on panels now. Their attempt to be Fox Lite isn't appealing to anyone
I wonder if some of the low ratings problems at CNN have to do with its image having been tarnished due to so many attempts to "re-balance" that nobody cares any longer? The ratings continue to slide or stay at the bottom, and all the shuffling of hosts is confusing.
Yeah Trump is a master negotiator, master strategist, and the Second Coming of Christ. He's none of those things. He's a TV character developed by Mark Burnett who some people add their own fantasies on what they want him to be. He's an addled, narcissistic old man with no filter, who has outsourced the Presidency to Elon Musk.
That's the problem. Conservatives want representation on MSM, but it alienates the audience. Just as adding liberals to conservative radio shows. Balance of opinion, while a great idea in theory, doesn't translate to ratings. People want what people want. They're not searching for balance.
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