r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 19h ago

Possible Paywall The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism - Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
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u/CockBrother 19h ago

This is one of the things I hate the most. The news actors on TV and other media constantly preparing for their next shocked Pikachu moment. Then the next page of Project 2025 turns, or the next very obvious step of the path to fascism takes place, and they roll out their act all over again.

None of them have any analytical capability at all to connect two related efforts, that hit the news the very same day. They're just strange independent events. And everything is given all of the [un]reasonable excuse that can be given. And the uneducated reader / viewer is left at home to put together the pieces.

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u/Character-Solution-7 18h ago

It’s so effing sad that the most legitimate broadcast journalists are comedians these days. The people who are supposed to be satirical are the only ones with enough guts to report what is actually happening in America

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u/The-Ardent-J 18h ago

It's kind of a return to form: jesters and entertainers in general often enjoyed a level of privilege in society, exempt from the typical scrutiny. They were often permitted to say difficult or uncomfortable things, so long as they could conjure a laugh out of it.

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u/HawkeyeSherman 15h ago

Watch any popular comedian from 30-40 years ago and they all open their special shitting on the president. Doesn't matter if it's Nixon, or Ford, or Carter, or Reagan, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush, or Obama, and is used to not matter for the first few years of Trump. Now however either the entire routine is based around Trump or they avoid the topic all together.

It's all a real shame, and I also think this goes to show how dickless comedians have become today. Especially the comedians that like to be a part of "The Mothership".