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planetc

(7,718 posts)
9. Trump and you are right.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:42 PM
Oct 2019

The punditry are working hard every day to sustain their own delusion that they are "speaking truth to power." What they are actually doing is to promote the ideas that 1) the only thing really happening in the world is American politics, 2) American politics is an endless tug of war between the Republican and the Democratic parties, and 3) what the American voter needs most is another discussion of how this demographic and that base will respond to this or that utterly irrelevant happening. Like the Clinton/Lynch meeting. It was all anyone talked about for 48 hours, and it meant ... nothing. The fierce focus of the media's framing of everything that happens leaves out several enormous perspectives: the historical, the scientific, the social. So who, I ask myself, are all these pundits trying to impress? Who are they talking to? And the answer can only be ... each other. They want to impress each other, and justify their salaries no doubt.

All this means that they are no longer reporting the news, they are making it. And that's the most dangerous thing they're doing, pretending they have to report these stories whose obvious import they will modify until they have another example of the Republicans and Democrats evenly divided in a political battle.

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