Once again, The New York Times is predicting doom and gloom about the 2024 election. In an article titled, “Trump Just Keeps Doing Appalling Things, and the Ranks of the Disengaged Are Growing”, by Michelle Goldberg www.nytimes.com/… the author contends that, rather than being galvanized by Trump’s continuing bad acts, people are becoming apathetic due to Trump criming fatigue. This, she says, may lead to young people, especially, disengaging from the voting process and staying home on election day, leading to a second Trump presidency.
Goldberg writes:
“A potentially significant number of people on the left, particularly young ones, believe that because President Biden has disappointed them, it’s not worth voting for him to head off a Trump restoration. (Online, some have even adopted the sarcastic right-wing phrase “orange man bad,” meant to dismiss liberal revulsion against him.)”
There it is again: “President Biden has disappointed them”. Biden-bashing. Doom and gloom. Trump will win, we might as well resign ourselves.
The New York Times just keeps hammering on this. Their media blackout on Biden’s accomplishments (along with most of the media), and their obsession with Trump because it boosts revenue (if it bleeds, it leads), are why most people are “disappointed” with Biden. It’s because they don’t even know what Biden’s done for them. Biden admittedly doesn’t help because he works behind the scenes and doesn’t draw attention to himself, but the media also seems to still think that a second Trump presidency will be business as usual and won’t affect them. They keep their heads in the sand rather than pay attention to Trump’s most recent threat against them, that broadcasting companies should have their licenses revoked because they didn’t air his “victory” speech after the Iowa primary. The oligarchs who control the media think the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party won’t catch up to them. I guess they’ll have to FAFO.
I think The New York Times is about as useful as limp spinach these days when it comes to covering the news. The rest of the media isn’t any better. An informed public is necessary in a democracy. The Times, along with other media, help shape public opinion, and their continued crappy coverage of Biden and obsession with Trump just makes my blood boil. The weird thing is, they’re missing a huge segment of Americans who are not only dead set against Trump, but determined to vote to keep him out of the White House should he become the Republican nominee. I’m not holding my breath that they’ll wake up to that, but I think they’ll be in for a rude awakening after the votes are tallied.