We all have our issues with the news media. There are just too many to name, count, or even describe generally. It’s a mess out there, whether it’s corporate power, two-siding every issue, hell, even just describing facts. So, I will limit this post to just one issue: I am simply begging the news media to stop covering voters and start covering elected officials.
Barely a day goes by without some story popping around where either a Trump voter says why they voted for Trump (you know, to educate the libs), or somebody who is very hurt by Trump’s policies feeling either regret or ignorance (you know, to make the libs feel better). But it’s fucking worthless. There’s no point this these stories—there is nothing to learn here that is worth learning. What some random voter thinks simply does not matter in the least. They have no power. They have no say-so. They have no ability to change anybody’s lives. It’s fucking boring. (That’s why I am not linking to any of them.)
Meanwhile, probably hurt from being accused of covering every single Twitter post Trump ever posted, the news media are just irresponsibly ignoring the actual things the administration is doing, or, even more absurdly, the actual bananas batshit things the president says. Did you know the president was surprised that the president of Liberia spoke English? You know, the country founded by fucking former American slaves? Did you see that on the cover of the Washington Post?
We get to see Gestapo Barbie the secretary of homeland security doing photo ops in front of concentration camps, but where is the front-page scandal massive font headline for her just plain fucking ignoring the Texas floods until it was convenient for her? I mean, sure there are stories; that’s how I learned about it. (lol) But what about the drumbeat? You know the drumbeat, like the one that urged, urgently, Joe Biden shouldn’t have gotten out of the war in Afghanistan. You know, a real scandal.
Anyways, to close because I don’t want to go off on a rant here (because Dennis Miller is a hack); I got to write “urged, urgently” in a post. I am rather proud of that.
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