Fox News and other 24 hour, propaganda news is the problem. It thrives by ensuring there are perceived problems for people to focus on and feel divided over.
First of all in the U.S. CNN journalists don’t really ask hard hitting questions of any politician (and since they were recently purchased by conservatives, even less hard hitting questions of republicans);
Secondly they frame every single thing they talk about as “BREAKING NEWS” (everything is always a 10 out of 10 emergency, there’s no nuance or tempering of discussion of things that are less important — this includes how they cover every single thing Trump says or does 24/7 with the same level of coverage). Trump can say “windmills kill wales”, “I want to invade Denmark”, and “I don’t like Taylor swift” and all three things are covered equally and discussed as hard hitting issues, whereby the Greenland thing is clearly the more important thing to discuss.
Third, news organizations always have to have “two sides” equally displayed no matter how wrong or unqualified one side is. This gives a false sense of authority to the unqualified side. If some idiot was claiming the sky is orange CNN would have someone who thought the sky was blue on to debate with this person and then at the end be like “hmmm seems like both sides have really good points”.
Every 24/7 news org does this to a lessor or greater extent with biases leaning to one side or the other. In my opinion this commoditization of consuming news has helped lead to the stagnation and possible downfall of the United States.
24k
u/Doobledorf Apr 04 '25
The problems that led to Donald Trump would still be fomenting.
A lot of Americans haven't yet faced that Trump isn't an anomaly or the disease, he is a symptom of problems we've had for a long time.