listen I'm just a serious reporter doing seventy five consecutive stories expressing sudden and breathless concern about how only one of two old candidates for president are old
no no listen it has nothing to do with wanting to gin up additional drama to chase ad engagement, or being hoodwinked into amplifying a Republican ratfucking op, I'm just very suddenly and nobly journalistically concerned about the age of just one of the two very old men running for office
and as a serious journalist worried about the age of only one of these guys, this story that might look like it's about the cooked brain of the other guy just isn't, y'know, our bailiwick of reporting so we let it stay with the non-print news sites
Cuz the media is only allowed a limited number of pushed news alerts, and those had to be reserved for opinion pieces about how to get Biden to step down.
No kidding. My father, who passed away at 86 and had cancer that spread to his brain, never slept during the day while sitting up - even while the cancer was in his brain. He would absolutely never fall asleep in a courtroom. Ridiculous.
The media speculated he was "meditating" at the time, which is actually absurd, absolutely bonkers
No, he fell asleep because he is an unhealthy and incurious old man
they are both old and everybody on earth would prefer younger candidates
I thought we had already established this via the last year of debate but apparently not
And that is really the point. No one can deny it's a legit story. But the imbalance is astonishing. You can report the news accurately and yet still slant and color it by positioning coverage in quantity and placement. That's where we are.
I mean him being old is a thing, but it's certainly not a new thing, and it's also pretty clear outlets want to drum up drama about a thing we all already knew to get people to click
"When I wrote that 'the two candidates would have overlapped in high school', my editor cut it, saying readers wouldn't care about that detail. Frankly, I agree with him."
Sure it’s just a coincidence that the Trump conviction is basically off every news homepage. Just absolutely positive this isn’t exactly what the GOP wanted. The democrats are nothing but predictable in their bed wetting.
listen the public wants to read about real brick and mortar flyover state diner bread and butter issues, not the endless criminal escapades of a sociopathic NYC real estate conman with a fourth grade reading level and 36 felony convictions
And writing about a traditional politician's age is way easier than tackling the whole pathological liar, rapist, insurrectionist, felon, fascist thing.
In most articles, that's all that's just fine and not even worth mentioning.
Trump voters are excited that he's senescent and spouting word salad and wants to burn it all down. Why would anyone write a story about how he's old? It won't change anyone's mind and it hasn't been news for four years.
He could be a houseplant and he’d still be better than trump and the failure to beat that drum relentlessly by any news organization is a failure of judgment and character.
The choice is obvious.
Authoritarianism is bad.
Some of us blame U.S. media for serving the masses trash dressed up as news. And for CNN acting like there isn't a thing or two they could have learned about moderating TV debates🔴 rb.gy/nt035t
Hasan could have done the job of 2. Yet, just like Washington, the wrong people are making key decisions▼
It's not rocket science.
Travel more often & learn that such characters have no business being/running for POTUS—even if they fooled a pool of ignoramuses, having committed Election Interference & Fraud while leveraging Cambridge Analytica & Russian election interference ops to get into WH before.▼
I think people are more concerned about how devissive our country has become. This rhetoric all for rage click bait or are TPTB trying to cause a civil war. It would freeze the US debt. while land sacrificed to investors,lines redrawn, death to release money form the treasury to pay down the FED.
