Amazing that you pick out the singular line in the post that mentions journalism and write the entire post off as if it's solely about it. I don't know if you're doing this intentionally or not at this point but regardless it's getting pathetic.How so? How can you say that when I'm one of the people who criticized OP's footing? I posted early in the thread that one of the examples they gave did not support their conclusion.
What are you talking about dawg? Xzi's post is about Trump's media coverage. They don't agree with OP's conclusion that the coverage is sensationalist. If you want to be in an echo chamber you can go to the /r/the_donald where they censor any dissenting opinions.
How can you say that this is not about journalism???
Further, "journalism itself" doesn't exist. Journalists report on subjects. You cannot separate these two things.
And again, OP brought up Trump as a subject of reporting we can use to draw the conclusion that the reporting is bad. If you don't agree that the reporting is bad, what would be a better way refute OP's conclusion?
please cut it out with the ad hominem attacks. You're smarter than that. Bernie was mentioned once and was never responded to. Chill out.
The OP was not about the focus on Trump, it was just about how stupid the media has become. Xzi's post was to whine about our "status as world leader" which isn't even correct to begin with since we are still a world leader, regardless of the fact that we have a man some people dislike as president.
You're going to some impressive lengths in mental gymnastics here, I'll give you that. They aren't making your argument stronger though, just dumber.
A better way to refute the claim that the media has become entirely sensationalist (or mostly) is to bring up news sources that are *not* sensationalist, which several other people in the thread have brought up, specifically the ones about local news, or other sites, while pointing out the flawed sites. Notice how I have not had any problem with these posts. This is how you make an argument. Bitching about Trump is not. Mental gymnastics centered around "w-well the post *said* journalism in it, s-so it's about journalism!!!" is also not an argument.
I'm not going to derail the topic further with you on this. You're clearly not capable of understanding the issue and where it lies as well as where the responsibility of it does. I'm not going to encourage this further.
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