They grasp it just fine, but they make money of covering him and have enough of said money to insulate themselves from the consequences of their actions.
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An article exploiting Trump’s image to gather traffic while telling us media doesn’t grasp Trump’s manipulation of the media…got it.
The article isn't about "Trump's manipulation of the media", it's about the sensationalism that revenue-driven news falls into, both by necessity and by convenience, and how that model is unequipped to handle rhetoric that is 'slow-burning'.
Trump is not playing 4D chess, he's just being his usual horrible self each day, but the media is unable to simply run "Trump still horrible" each day, so they end up treating his current horrible-ness as a new baseline after the shock wears off, which just normalizes his behavior.
It's like the inverse of the boy crying wolf, where the wolves really are attacking each day, but since everyone "knows" that, the town crier kid stops telling people the wolves are attacking unless they attack in some novel way, and over time the wolves attacking isn't even 'bad', it's just how the villagers live.
An article exploiting Trump’s image to gather traffic while telling us media doesn’t grasp Trump’s manipulation of the media…got it.
The guy's brains are scrambled eggs. I'm not sure that he's going to be doing much of anything. Just vote.
He got 3 lying Supreme Court justices to the bench the first time around. And now some of my kid’s rights have been removed.
Yes, vote, but don’t do so thinking that he’s somehow not a threat — he most definitely is.
yeah they do, they are just frothing as what that means for the bullshit that they peddle
Bingo. He sells news. Bring back the no advertising segment of American news.
Bets that they do actually know.
Most likely its a mix of cognitive dissonance (it can't happen here) and not really caring as theyre mostly well off liberals (oh well, if it does, im wealthy so my life won't seriously change that much!).
"I'm white, cis and hetero, and they're only hurting Others™"
Wild thing is I am white, cis and basically hetero...
...and I don't see how anyone can not take this all seriously.
Lots of non white, non hetero talking heads on major channels that don't seem to care either.
A lot of it is just the lucky few that made the right connection, or were born into wealth, who never had any life destroying tragedy ruin their career, who had reserve finances or other contacts or safety nets to rely on...
Ive met loads if people like that. They'll give you all the emotional support in the world, until either disagree with them about nearly anything somewhat serious, or if you ask for help that might actually cost them some time or money.
There's programs for that! I donate to a charity that... yeah, its all underfunded, extremely difficult to apply to and pass.
Then they get angry because in their head theyre a good person, but this grates upon their fundamental belief in a meritocratic society, causes cognitive dissonance.
Survivorship bias is deadly.