When Donald Trump talks about media being biased and bad, it is hard for me to disagree with him. The trouble is he is considering media biased only when they oppose him. He is using that as a justification to sideline them, take away their freedom and spread his alternate facts. Here are my view points on this topic.
Focus on the incorrect problems
The country is facing problems which affect the people. Go to the people and figure out what matters to them and report that. The clothes which Ivanka wears or Trump’s tweet on that is not of any significance to the people. Trump being presidential is not the biggest problem facing the country where millions are in poverty. Media has to bring the right problems and the corruption affecting those to light. It is hard to do that when they themselves are corrupt.
Lack of insights
All the reports are extremely superficial. There are hardly any insights. “Trump says there will be a record high reduction in taxes. The global markets react positively to it.” These are factual statements. There are no insights that people can gain from that. Dig deeper, understand the meaning, dissect the statements and the motivations, to come up with the insights of any value.
Reporting on their philosophical allegiances instead of facts
Media hardly gives credit where it is due. When Trump cancelled TPP, says he will force pharmaceutical companies to fall in line, says he will invest in American jobs, questions if America has been good in the past, he is actually right. Given him credit for that. That will show that you are reporting on truth and not your stupid allegiances. It is important to criticise Obama, Hillary and Trump where due. Fox has to support republicans and CNN has to support democrats irrespective of the facts. This is not journalism. It is you putting loyatly to your empoyer and faith before justice to your profession.
Dumb enough to fall for red herrings
When Trump says shit like ‘Removing Ivanka fashion line from store is wrong’, please do not fall for it. These are red herrings which you focus on, as his team of deplorables led by Steve Bannon is coming up with horrendous policies. Your message is diluted when you concentrate on everything. He distracted the press by attacking them on one side. On the other side, he created a safe passage to come up with more executive orders favouring his billionaire looter friends.
If the mainstream media continues to focus on the wrong elements, they are only going to give more power to idiots. They are losing the plot by not playing the role of effective defender of liberty in democracy.
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