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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Donald Trump has no coherent plan, other than self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment.

He is making this stuff up as he goes along. He is impulsive and changes his mind constantly. He lies pathologically and is often incoherent. He promotes actions that are overtly illegal. He is hostile to every form of expertise. Others, most notably Elon Musk and Stephen Miller, are making decisions in his name that he doesn’t seem to know or care about.

Asked if he has to “uphold the Constitution,” he replied “I don’t know.”

He is also flailing. His approval rating is badly underwater. Judges have blocked many of his most consequential actions. His impetuous tariff proposal is backfiring massively, leading him to lie about imaginary trade deals as the economy teeters. Ordinary people are getting outraged by the administration’s hate-fueled cruelty toward nonwhite immigrants. His self-dealing is increasingly overt.

This is important context for any news article or segment about Trump, and yet it’s almost entirely left out of the daily coverage that he gets in mainstream media outlets.

Yep.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry, what on earth is a Beehaw and how does it relate at all to this discussion?

So, where does it come from?

I meant the idea that the general populace is no longer getting their news (directly or indirectly) from sites like that. If they weren't writing articles that got linked around the web they wouldn't sell ads, and if they weren't selling ads they wouldn't exist anymore.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Beehaw is the Lemmy instance we're talking on. And ad-supported is far from the only model for journalism.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, shit, I didn't realize. I'm still getting used to this lemmy/instance/federation thing, my bad.

And ad-supported is far from the only model for journalism.

It's not, but it's what most of them use and they seem to be reasonably successful at it, so as a measure of the abandonment of journalism I think it's a reasonable yardstick.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is what most use. I left the field after 20 years because of how that started tipping the scales. Independent media are where journalism is being committed these days.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I love places like ProPublica that do serious investigative journalism, though I dunno if they count as 'independent' anymore.

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