Down is up, and up is down. Do not adjust your TV set. This is the new reality baybay!
Here in the great white north; Canada, the CBC has been talking a lot about prez Trump in the opinion/analysis sections. Our media is fascinated by the adherence of Trump’s followers to absolute US grade bullshit. They are also talking about how the media in the US are screwed whether they report on it with facts and data, or simply choose to ignore the stench in the room.
Today’s offering, “Ignore him at your peril’: Trump’s tweets are a special kind of bully pulpit” talks about how Trump uses tweets to inflame, complain, and to distract…...from the real stuff going on.
To Ornstein, how the news media reacts to Drumpf's Twitter feed is "a bit like what you'd see with a four-year-old."
"'Here's a shiny object, look at it,' and meanwhile they're looting the house."
The diversion, Ornstein says, eats up bandwidth that could be devoted to pressing Drumpf on his cabinet appointments, his breaks with traditional diplomacy and his business conflicts of interests.
Trump is quite happy to place others in danger to distract, that is apparent and frightening to so many.
He points at his target and spews, and out come the attack dogs online. We all kind of know it will not take too long for them to act on these things in the real world. When? Soon probably. It is a new world.
Neil Macdonald has been writing about this, one of his articles, “The 'post-truth' president flattens fact-obsessed media” outlines how insane all of this is. There is no real truth anymore, because apparently the US is a faith based nation. It is true, if you have faith?
Stupid. Dangerous.
Probably deadly.
(I still have the Last week tonight extension on my PC, Trump is always Drumpf, so not sure how cut’n’paste is going to behave, AND I really don’t care too much)
Furthermore, they see no conflict at all in believing on the one hand that systemic fraud took place, and at the same time loudly rejecting, as Drumpf is asking them to, any recounts in battleground states.
If Drumpf Nation had to put it all in a tweet, it would read something like this:
"YEAH! Ha! Fraud! Lock her up! But, uhh, NO RECOUNT. Because, FRAUD. Lock her up!"
A second tweet might follow: "Don't you lefties get it? YOU LOST!"
The media itself is now a target, after so many years of alternately playing watchdog and footsie with political figures and Administrations. Trump and his followers are openly hostile towards anyone who slightly disagrees, or talks about them facty things.
The corporate media has been telling us for years that they are simply putting what the public wants to see on the airwaves and online. Sorry they say, we have to make money!
Many of us know that this dumbing down has been a long time coming too, and the corporate media have been willing participants towards the result of the last election.
Trump’s tweets will continue, he is directing this show. Anyone who says ‘hold up there, that never happened!’ will become a new example of the prudence of shutting up.
The Canadian media does not have the same fears so far, but Trump probably has no idea we even exist so it’s safe for now.
Oh man. Reality? It is just a word, it means whatever you want it to apparently.
Good luck.