Should Trump fear the Swiftie swarm?
Tag - news media
Presidential politics is a stale affair—particularly this sultry season.
The media shift from impartial to political has become more evident with each passing decade.
Mythmaking, of course, isn’t reporting. It’s lazy story-time for Facebook scrollers who think posting the “angry face” emoji is an act of civic engagement.
Other than the loss of a few forgettable afternoon TV hits, no Fox viewer will much miss Jonah Goldberg or Stephen Hayes.
Of all the troubling things happening—the slow unstitching of the supply chain, worker shortages, climbing inflation—why focus on a silly slogan?
Slagging a favorite American pastime like fireworks as KKKtainment might seem like déformation professionnelle for the staple journal of every dentist office.
Take a moment to think good and hard about the messages the mass media is sending to young people.
This rejection of objectivity is of a piece of the larger, more trendy rebellion against meritocracy, and hard knowledge in general.
The pressure to be commercially viable has created an incentive to tabloidize the news, constructing and finessing narratives that tickle a reader’s biases.