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"There's always more of a response when I have a Trump peg," Sulome says of her pitches since Trump's election."Why are we giving in to this man's narcissistic dream?" she would like to ask editors. "When people lose sight of what's going on around the world, we allow our government to make foreign policy decisions that don't benefit us. It makes it so much easier for them to do that when we don't have the facts. Like if we don't know that the crisis in Yemen is killing and starving so many people and making Yemenis more extremist, how will people know not to support a policy in which we are attacking Yemenis?"
Applewhite agrees that this exclusive focus on Trump and other domestic issues could be detrimental to Americans' understanding of the world, and our ability to make sound political decisions.
https://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump-impact-foreign-reporting.php
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Monday February 19 2018, @09:17PM (3 children)
While I don't really have much of an opinion about her making a living out of trekking around the middle east writing a couple of articles and a book a year or not she does have another point and it's the worlds obsession with Trump, or perhaps I should say the media establishments obsession with Trump.
Leader of the "free world" and what not there still shouldn't really be a reason for all the "news". Most of it probably shouldn't even be classified as news since it seems to be more like hit-pieces or opinions or trivialities such as all his various tweets -- the current one is apparently him praying for the pupils that got gunned down in Florida and some pupils that survived telling him to fuck off. Is this really news worthy? News have just gotten a lot more stupid during the last decade or so it seems and I blame Facebook and Twitter. I doubt it was brought on by Trump, it has been going on for a few presidents now. So I don't think it's him personally, even tho his personality probably helps, but more that the idiots have to fill their 24-7 news cycle and there just isn't actually real news to fill it with so they have to resort to opinions and just rehashing the same shit over and over again. He fills the gap between "news" and "entertainment" better then previous presidents.
In general we get way to much reporting about things that happen in the USA. No matter what he does it's apparently news worthy. Take the US election as an example, its around the clock here to. One could almost believe we had a vote, there was even people here running around with those stupid signs "not my president" on them -- which would be correct, he isn't your president since you don't live in America. But when there is an election in Germany or France that is just like one giant yawn and a few days at best and even that is interrupted by Trump tweeting. Those are trading wise a lot more important for us or most countries in the EU.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday February 19 2018, @09:24PM
...that ship has sailed, capsized, and sunk. Not sure whose boat is legitimately flying that flag now, or even if anyone's is, but we surely aren't.
We are, however, clearly the leader in the "Most peculiar clown car" category. So there's that.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Freeman on Monday February 19 2018, @09:30PM
I have been talking to my wife about sources and credibility in "news" (facebook posts or other just as awful sources) for a long time now. I think I'm finally getting through to her. Perhaps schools need a class or two on how media lies. The old adage "Don't believe everything you see on T.V." doesn't even come close to scraping the surface of the issue. Journalists used to be credible, not in business, or working for Tabloids. Now, it seems there's not much difference between any of them.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 19 2018, @09:46PM
Maybe there should be less emphasis or outrage about certain tweets, with some innocent Trump tweets ignored entirely, but this is a bad example to pick. Sure, let's sweep the victims under the rug.
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