I know I just ragged about how bad our leadership has been in that other thread and I'm not taking back anything I stated there already by posting this......I personally see it as a separate albeit intertwined issue. Again, I'm not trying to lessen any of the blame Trump deserves for his part in the unilateral failure of leadership at all levels, and I'm only sharing this because I think it very much a large part of what has happened. That part of the story won't ever get the light of day because it's about the blame that needs to be placed on those who cover, write, and report the stories.
Seriously, what can be done about our media universally sucking? Actually, I wish they just sucked but they go well beyond on it. Things that suck are annoying, unfortunate, not good, but that doesn't describe our media....they go into whatever you want to call the realm of evil that exists that's occupied by people believing they're actually doing work that is noble and good?
This also is an issue that isn't partisan....isn't a Relublican v. Democrat....isn't a Fox News v. CNN/MSNBC debate here.....
The media has been awful with Trump. I'd say easily the worst ever for any president any of us are actually familiar with. A know they ragged on Hoover and others a great deal and maybe some dork historian would argue worse than with Trump, but for what we know and have lived through Trump has been the worst they've covered.
But they weren't great for Obama, W, Clinton, or Bush 1 either. Yeah, I'd say they were a lot better for a Obama in particular but part of that was Obama didn't have any personal scandals. He was never caught fukcing around on his wife, no crazy shit we saw with every other president of my life with Bush 1 being the other exception. Reagan, Clinton, W, and my boy Trump represent(ed) a lot of very bizarre shit going on off camera, beyond press briefings, and normal job duties.
With that being said, we need to do something about our media so this shit doesn't happen anymore. So any president whether Republican or Democrat can get a fair chance at being allowed to simply try working to get the effing job done before being lambasted publicly by our media. Trump never got that chance. Obama wouldn't have had it not been for how low W's approval ratings were and how he basically let Obama take over prior to being sworn in because he didn't want to be president anymore after the economy took a shit and melted down. Even then there was still negative and oversensationalized press but nothing like what Trump had dealt with. Even Fox News took it easy on Obama being sworn in because they cared more about "allowing" hope (not going far as to also sell it) because they too wanted to see the economy be pulled out of the crapper. Plus when looking back, I think the media right knew it was inevitable and there wasn't any point to going full attack mode after W barely avoided leaving office with worse ratings than Nixon.
I'm sincerely stating this as a non-partisan plea to let anyone of whatever party who gets elected get a chance to do their job unfettered by the media enough to have a reasonable chance for success.
So what do we do about our awful media that either directly creates crisis for profit, contributes to said crisis, or magnifies crisis until they're worse? How do we fix that? Can that even be fixed at this point?
