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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI still don't understand, why Trump's tweets are considered news, when almost all of them turn out
to be completely meaningless distractions
I wish the media would go back to reporting news instead of chasing Trump's laser pointer around.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)That's one reason the dumbass is in the WH.
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)I mean, what the fuck do they report?! There are never any policy proposals, just demented, deranged unreadable piles of horseshit. Unless they say, "trump vomited again and it turns out he's still a racist fuckhole flailing about in the throes of dementia. He needs to be impeached. Here's Todd with the weather." There's absolutely nothing else they can say. I hate what passes as news in this fucking country.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's very serious and disturbing, but the way you described it was very amusing.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)karynnj
(59,475 posts)That does mean they are news, but not all news gets much coverage. In a normal Presidency, minor policy is routinely put out via statements,that will be on the appropriate .gov site. They get coverage to the degree that they interest any part of the media.
Here, because on many things the President has the power to make - change - his administration's policy, a tweet IS news worthy because it COULD lead to a change in that direction. Covering it in many cases leads to enough negative flack that, even if his advisors agreed, they might back track.
On today's migrant arrests, this might actually be something his team was looking into, planning, or deciding how to do it. Various people on TV are also saying that the tweet as is is essentially designed to terrorize a large group of people. Thus, reporting the tweet is a difficult decision. Not reporting it might - in retrospect - by seen as hiding something where reaction could impact whether it happens. However, reporting it could be seen as intentionally terrorizing millions of people.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)What he says, no matter how stupid, is always news. Would we really want him operating in sinister silence? Even the most ardent of his supporters know his tweets hurt him and endanger their control of government, and they've been wanting him to STFU for a long time.
And, importantly to this OP, legitimate news organizations been trying for a long time now to report without overpublicizing the distractions he's constantly trying to create. There've been years now of conferences, meetings, studies, streams of industry articles, etc., all examining various ways journalism can and should serve its functions under Trump while avoiding being used.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)but it is definitely not newsworthy, it's just sophomoric trolling, that is not even entertaining.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)among other things, to abandon the nuclear agreement. Many people will die if there is war now, and what might happen in future if a state long engaged in proxy religious war gets the nuclear bomb?
This is only ONE nation of many, including huge troublemaking in our own.
And you see Trump's bloviating as not newsworthy? Snake, it's ALL news, even the most stupid tweets obviously meant to be diversionary. He accidentally reveals a lot through them, and current leaders and historians are documenting every single one.
malaise
(267,808 posts)The tweets should be called base propaganda
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)Just as much if they are "meaningless distractions." Some along those lines are even very important news.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Should the media dedicate it's entire focus on that too?
Or how about if he had a webcam feed of him farting out Broadway show tunes with his armpit, should be media be only covering that too?
Or are we just supposed to believe that his trolling on the internet is somehow more newsworthy than either of those?
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)That's pretty big news we should know about.