Member-only story
Why Does the Fake News Pander to Trump?
I have to give Trump some credit, if only because his behavior demonstrates how stupid and unprofessional the so-called Fake News media has become.
It’s not so much the reporters and editors who ‘report’ the news are kids who don’t have a collective memory that’s more than ten years old. It’s not so much these so-called ‘experts’ on current affairs wouldn’t know how to understand, never mind objectively report on what we need to know.
It’s the simple fact that once the Fake News determines that a certain topic or a certain name can get more clicks and therefore help increase their advertising rates, the more the Fake News will turn everything remotely connected to this or that topic or this or that name into a story which is used to headline their shows.
Before I go any further, let’s understand something right now about how the media deals with the events which become the daily content on digital video and TV. When I was a kid, the total news media consisted overwhelmingly of printed stories which had to be written out, edited, and published in a communicative fashion which we refer to as ‘words.’
Which meant it took more time to write, edit, print, and distribute to the public audience than what it takes to shoot a 30-second video which is then immediately uploaded to be played on TV, or sent…