Comments for Sean McMillan's blog https://seanmcmillan.net/ blogging hard so you don't have to Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Comment on Donald Trump Tried To Break the Media with “Fake News,” And Someone’s Got To Fix It by Alex S https://seanmcmillan.net/2023/03/26/donald-trump-tried-to-destroy-the-media-with-fake-news-and-someones-got-to-fix-it/#comment-3 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:56:04 +0000 https://seanmcmillan.net/?p=53#comment-3 Just like you said, media distrust isn’t anything particularly new… So why was it that the Trump “presidency” exacerbated the issue? Obviously, he made the biggest commotion about it. Was that really all it took for the masses to latch on?

In my opinion, it seems like right leaning media were really emboldened during the runup to the 2016 elections. I mean it was a perfect storm of Trump leading the charge and the “controversy” of Hillary Clinton’s emails.. As a counter to that left leaning media had to “retaliate”.

There wasn’t any sort of reporting as there wasn’t anything to report, so news agencies started editorializing current events instead of providing unbiased facts. Compound that with the fact that it seemed like even when things were proven to have happened (see: Mueller probe) nothing was even done about them.

What were people supposed to believe? Truly a disappointing time in our nation’s history.

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