I was assured Our Lord and Savior Donald Trump, by his presence alone, would lower grocery prices on day 1. I had a Senator telling us daily that as soon as Saint Donald was in the White House, groceries would be affordable. So where's my $1.80 gas.
He has more "important" work to attend to, apparently...
Since news became a profit center, that typically hasn't happened. The Washington Post and L.A. Times is on the Trump train now.
While they
have been releasing some pretty scathing articles fairly consistently, not endorsing Biden/Harris (or anyone for that matter, in the case of The Washington Post) does imply at least
some support in Trump's favor, although I'd hardly count them as being on the "Trump train". They may be leaning his way somewhat (perhaps in an attempt at avoiding some of his wrath), but MAGA mouthpieces they are most certainly not, as far as i can tell.
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.
I don't get that either, but I do think it was a local thing that did happen in a few places, and the media, doing what it often does, took it out of context and magnified it to gigantic proportions, making it worse than it was.
Back in 2020-2022, however, I heard from some reliable sources that either worked, lived, or visited downtown San Francisco that in places, it actually was pretty close to as bad as the news said it was, especially with respect to the homeless problem (I've seen it for myself!), so to be fair, the media weren't all wrong all of the time on that subject.
It was quite amazing to see a wide swath of Canadians witness Trump's first week in office and then suddenly agree, "on second thought, maybe Trudeau isn't so bad after all".
Can he rescind his resignation?
There is also the smallish issue of Canada being apart of the Brittish Commonwealth. Does Trump really want to pick a fight the UK?
Who knows anymore. I read that Musk has taken a strange interest in the UK recently, so maybe he's angling to do something suspect?
As someone posted earlier, in the War of 1812 the US tried capturing part of Canada (then a collection of British and French colonies known as Upper and Lower Canada, respectively) and failed (the US did ultimately win the war, though). I agree that it would not go any better now. Probably worse, in fact.
Depends on who you ask. Most reporters care. That's why they do it. Their bosses have to deal with the more practical situation.
If you read the texts in the Dominion case, you get some insight into the thinking at Fox News.
As I said, just reporting news as though it's 1974 isn't going to work this time. They already saw the movie.
In this world today, there's no respect for the fact that you have a job and work at an established news organization. If anything, there's resentment about it. You're in the "elite," and that's not a respected position to be in right now. The people control who has the power, not the media.
I don't resent journalists or anyone else working for the media. In fact, I think we're better off in ways we don't even realize thanks in part to their efforts. They serve a vitally important function in this country, for better or worse, and as imperfect as it is, it's still far better and much more robust than in places like Russia, China or North Korea, where the concept of a "free press" basically doesn't exist.
ABC gave around 5 minutes to President Musk's first press conference at the White House, with Trump just sitting looking bored at a desk. That said more than any commentary could have
Indeed. Has to make one worry about who's running the show....
Could be. That sounds like a losing strategy in any event.
Nah, I'll stick with the Anthony Fremont comparison, involving a six-year-old, emotionally at that level but with strange powers who isolates his community and terrorizes it into believing only positive things about the lives they're forced to live under his control, while sending anyone who has any kind of thought otherwise into oblivion.
That's a Twilight Zone reference, by the way. I'm disappointed that no one picked that up.
I like the Twilight Zone, but I'm afraid my references are quite rusty since I haven't seen the show in quite some time. Is your reference from the original 60's series, or from one of the newer ones? (there were three more modern installments: the first one from 85-89, another from 2002-2003, and the most recent from 2019-2020).
Meanwhile, Associated Press got sent to the naughty corner, for using “Gulf Of Mexico”…
Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico
www.theguardian.com
*sigh*
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