Joe and Mika opened the doors for Trump. Literally. I want personalities and media channels to really hold themselves responsible for mainstreaming Trump for ratings and access and profit. It'll never happen but we have to learn and evolve so this doesn't happen again.
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1347175550255853569
You can do down the line & see where major corporate media channels, papers and several influential journalists just straight up failed. Where they openly admitted Trump was great for ratings even as he proposed a Wall, a Muslim Ban & incited racial hatred & assaulted the media.
- CNN reporter telling me Trump was great for air time.
- WH reporter lamenting Biden won bc he doesn't have as good of "access."
- Spicer having the time of his life at party for journalists in DC before the WH Corresp Dinner
- CBS Moonvess saying he's great for ratings. Etc
- WH reporter lamenting Biden won bc he doesn't have as good of "access."
- Spicer having the time of his life at party for journalists in DC before the WH Corresp Dinner
- CBS Moonvess saying he's great for ratings. Etc
I realize this thread and commentary will not make me popular in my particular industry but it has to be said. If it doesn't change, and it didn't after the debacle and failure of journalism during Bush's War on Terror, then this will repeat and democracy and truth will suffer.
All that needs to be said is: "We made a mistake by not covering Trump properly, by creating a both sides false equivalence, by promoting propagandists who said disinformation. Ratings & profit aren't worth a functioning democracy. We will do better...& hire more people ofcolor."
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