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Originally Posted by ZuneIt
IMO, televised news is all about ratings. Whatever the audience wants, the audience gets.
They don't want FOX/CNN giving weekly updates for 30 minutes on GAO-11-318-SP that identified 100s of billions of waste in 2011 & what Congress has done to rectify the waste. They want shytt that excites them.
Just look at this forum. Nuttin' but stuff about topics that boil the blood. Numbers & keepin' up the pressure on your rep & senator is too much to ask for. We want touchy/feely reality show type subjects to debate.
Plenty of talk about the Russia scandal & Trump tweets, not much about what matters........what matters isn't exciting. If it did, there would be a national uprising for an amendment to the Constitution voiding the Citizens United ruling. Those 9 pin-heads in black robes are not the last word! It was a 5-4 ruling with the 5 republicans voting in favor of it............but nobody seems to listen.........nobody seems to care..........they wanna' debate tweets & a scandal that has yet to shed facts.
Incredible confirmation bias ITP. This forum does a fair job in covering all topics, in varying amounts. I mean, if we spent 20 hours a day talking about covfefe you might have a point.
1) "What matters" is different for different lifestyles. I don't mean in an opinionated way either, although that has some value too. I'm talking about how these things reach our lives. Why do you get to declare lengthened prisoner sentences more important than the Trumpcare disgrace, and vice versa?
2) Even covfefe has importance. We talked about it enough for a few jokes and a few points about Trump's mental health. Later, it was a great extreme example of exactly how much the WH defends the POTUS. We're now strongly inclined to believe it's unconditional.
Likewise, Russia has huge importance. The news channels haven't been talking about the same "Russia" for months you know. We keep learning new, significant details pretty much every day, and they fit into a whole puzzle together. Is MSM supposed to ignore all these stories daily, or are we not expected to post when new scoops hit? Russia isn't finished either. They have been active since election interference and plan on hitting the next ones also. Then there's the crazy **** Trump and Co have been doing to cover up the crazy **** they've been covering up. There's a good reason that we have Mueller's special investigation + FBI investigation + 4 Congressional committees + Treasury financial inquiries + State AGs + grand jury subpoenas into Trump and many many others who have all been covering up crimes they committed that are specifically Russia-related. There's also good reason why people who are dismissive of Russia, Obstruction, or the POTUS's behavior in general are often either ignorant of exactly HOW important this stuff is, or are Trumpkins themselves.
Tweets matter too. Of course they do. Stupid ones get ignored completely or commented on only once or twice. More important ones get more attention. The White House has told us numerous times that Trump tweets are official POTUS statements. Some are even being used as legal evidence. And lots are fun!
Then there are a zillion other topics that are affecting us in a bad way. It's not that hard with a LYING SNEAKY SCUMBAG over-sensationalizing everything he does. There's a huge thread on Trumpcare, others on terrorism, there's racism, elections & voter suppression, fake news IDK...you just have to look around. We spend plenty of time on plenty of stuff, and posters do a pretty decent job overall. Sorry you have a bad impression of it, and of the media. Most of it is Trump's relentless branding and marketing and more than most is flat out falsely spewed garbage.