RE: Simple serious question: What has Donald Trump actually done wrong?
I think that most news outlets are entering a dark age. Donald Trump is a media sensation, bigger than even the Kardashians. His brand is being manipulated by partisan writers on both sides to acquire as much ad revenue as possible. I've done writing on the side, selling individual articles, and many competitors would simply write political speculation that has no merit or evidence as you said.
I don't have the time right now to discover what evidence exists for other things Trump has done, but the existence of speculation for money significantly dilutes the capacity for valid news to reach people.
However, even if we are trying to consider what news is valid, what sources are legitimate, and what is the best objective perspective, social media has taken a role in delivering news to people based on their personal interests. This excludes objectivity and merely provides biased articles which appeal to the individual the most in order to obtain as many clicks as possible.
We won't see a change in the way media performs until more people stop clicking and start to question why the source of their news always seems to pander to their thoughts.
Or perhaps they come like some of us and take news from many sources, but think for ourselves and use those moments simply as a chance to question.
I don't watch the news for someone to tell me how I should think. I watch so I can hear things that I might otherwise have known about. Then I attempt to research on my own. It can be a muddy thing, but most journalism today is purely op eds. It is opinion rather than Journalism.
I've known some great journalists on the internet. They actually presented facts without trying to lead you to a conclusion or telling you what you should believe. One of my favorites is Ben Swann. He was silenced, censored, and basically scrubbed from the web when he had the gal to do a piece on Pizzagate. He didn't even say it was real. He simply said that no actual investigation had been done and that based upon the FBIs own training materials there was at least enough there to warrant investigating it before dismissing it. He was very unbiased about it. You could tell he knew there might be nothing to it. Yet that was enough to scrub him.
The world is a mess. Not just the U.S. The media is a big part of the problem, and I do think it could be because it is too fixated on ratings rather than doing what they should be doing.
agreed.... i rarely believe any one news source for my news. i usually watch several news sources daily. i am smart enough to know which way they slant biased(liberal, conservative, neutral) I find that the majority of mainstream media is slanted with a liberal bias, with a smaller percentage being slanted on a conservative bias, and an even smaller, almost non existant neutral bias(i think this is directly due to their being less available ad revinue allocated for the actual truth). I watch a segment of CNN, Bloomberg, Fox, CNBC, each on a daily basis. i also read many news sources online daily.. While i do primarily to make informed investing choices, i also do so because as an individual you should never just take one news source's word as the truth... it is always on a skewed version of events. but by taking several differently sourced stories you can generally find the kernel of truth away from the actual event. America as a whole has become sheep. simply following the herd, not thinking on their own, not asking the questions......there should always be questions! If you do not question the actions of your governing bodies then you are already a slave to it....