Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don't think the Mueller investigation was a debacle. I think the media coverage of it was a debacle. It was as bad as the non-stop overheated coverage of the Lewinsky/Starr witch hunt against the Clintons, but not quite as bad as the media's carrying of Bush's water in the run up to the Iraq War.

But, really, who cares what I think? Read the pages of assiduously compiled facts that Taibbi, a guy who wrote a hysterical book making fun of Trump (highly recommended), lays out in his article.

The media ran with this scandal for all it was worth. It desperately wanted a Watergate II ratings bonanza. In the end, it got Al Capone's vault.

All the media did here was stoke greater division and embolden Trump. The only silver lining I see is even fewer people will believe their bullshit in the future. It's an embarrassment. Fox went into the gutter of slanted news and everybody else followed. Now we've a British tabloid media. Different sources pick different sides and feed the audience slanted garbage.

And it's not okay for the media to bullshit and over-hype, as some argue, because Trump is some sort of existential threat. He's not. He's a symptom of deeper rot, like the media that covers him. They perfectly deserve each other.

Yes, it's so different from the judicious, skeptical way the media covered Benghazi and the Clinton email issues, to take two examples.

If you want media that do not respond to free-market incentives to sell ads, you need to think of something else.