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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 04:51 PM Mar 2020

Why is the media accurately reporting my coronavirus actions just to be mean?

I do not understand why the media has decided through sheer whimsy to say that there is a very serious crisis happening and my administration has only just started to take on the task when they could say the opposite and everything would instantly become better!

Why would they create such a stir, voluntarily, when the panic that currently exists is the result of a series of words they could just as easily not say? Do they not realize what power they wield? It’s going to have real consequences, if they don’t watch out. I understand they are just doing it deliberately, to spite me, and that I am rising to the challenge, like a phoenix or a reverse Titanic.

Why can’t they be more like my doctor, who says I am made of glass and steel and impervious to time and — presto, it is so!? If they would only notice what a good job I am doing and how false and bad they are, and say that instead — we’d all be a lot happier. There is no reality but what they create! As a reality TV expert, I know this! I wish they would get it into their heads and stop creating a bad reality.

Now is not the time to be pointing out that, in addition to doing a slow, bad job to deal with the coronavirus, I am also continuing to pursue my passion and indeed hobby of inflaming racism. Now is the time to say that I am doing a good job, and that all my ideas are good. It would help me to hear that. I am like Tinker Bell or Jeb Bush.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/19/why-is-media-accurately-reporting-my-coronavirus-actions-just-be-mean/

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Why is the media accurately reporting my coronavirus actions just to be mean? (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2020 OP
Exactly, don't you people know the media is responsible.... Thomas Hurt Mar 2020 #1
They are always trying to make Trumpy-Dumpty look bad captain queeg Mar 2020 #2
IOW: "No clothes!?!? What the hell do you mean by that?" FiveGoodMen Mar 2020 #3

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Exactly, don't you people know the media is responsible....
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 04:55 PM
Mar 2020

for managing the populace's emotional response and behaviors to emergencies in a free society?

Above all else they must always make Dear Leader look good.

captain queeg

(10,171 posts)
2. They are always trying to make Trumpy-Dumpty look bad
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 05:01 PM
Mar 2020

We don’t they hold a big celebration that the stock market went up a couple hundred points today instead of focusing on it losing 10,000 points in the last 2 weeks? So unfair! I’m going to hold my breath I’ll I turn purple (orange + blue = purple).

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