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Just before the dawn of the Trump administration, journalism in Washington, DC, faces an existential crisis -- but virtually no one in the profession is willing to diagnose it.
Here it is: For the first time, words don't matter. In August, as a guest on MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily, I noted that voters take Donald Trump seriously but not literally, while journalists take him literally, but not seriously.
[...] And journalists keep falling for it because they, like politicians, over-value words -- and they are now covering a politician who does not. President-elect Trump still takes the same cavalier approach to verbal description as he would in hawking a condo tower that's yet to be designed. And more than enough voters don't seem to mind. Trump has spent a career interacting with journalists, but as the first president never to serve in the military, the cabinet, or another public office before his election to the White House, he's never been immersed in the word culture that drives political journalism. [...] Most recently, when Trump announced he had chosen South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to be his ambassador to the United Nations, journalists raced to re-tweet a March rant from Trump in which he said the people of South Carolina should be embarrassed by her.
[...] Writing endless columns on this or that flip-flop based on Trump's conflicting rhetoric is wasting the time of the readers and viewers who have decided that's not what matters with this particular President-elect. [...] If the press covers Trump the way it covered prior presidents -- too literally -- it may find its own customers take journalism itself a lot less seriously.
Source: CNN
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Zz9zZ on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:48AM
What will the Elmer Fudds say about this? That wacky MSM is now supporting Trump and telling journalists to not be journalists?
We are in the post-truth world, words mean nothing, everything is a lie... lol what a nit. I see we've got one bite on the ol' spoonfed line.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday December 01 2016, @02:20PM
brawndo, its what plants crave!
we are not very far from that. scary close to that, in fact.
we thought bush was the ultimate in dumbing down of america, but we were wrong. a new bottom has been defined and I fear we will see it being reached and lowered even more ;(
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Entropy on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:26PM
Yeah. Not only do we feed them more as they reproduce, we got them healthcare that useful people have to pay for them making sure only the stupid survive. Pretty sure Pres. bin hussein was the bottom of the bucket in that respsect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 08 2016, @06:46AM
You talk like a fag and your shit's all tarded.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 01 2016, @03:51PM
The person whose primary job is to speak on behalf of the American public is a complete liar. What could possibly go wrong?