Trump is not the real problem.

[OldBaldy1701E]

71. Yep

Please remember that before the late 1970's, television stations usually had their own news programs. They were there solely because the stations all felt that they should, so that their viewers had the ability to stay informed about local news as well as national/international news. Then came the era of the corporate-owned station, and suddenly those news programs were being held to the same criteria as their regular programming. They had to attract viewers, they had to attract sponsors, etc. With that shift, the news programs became little more than another TV show. They had to compete with those entertainment programs. And they did what any of the other shows have to do to fulfill that new criteria. When you are faced with sensationalistic programming, you have to become just as sensationalistic, if not more so. Well, just 'news' is not entertaining. So, they started becoming that. By the early eighties, I was done with all 'news', as all of it was corrupted by corporate interference. Basically, the 'news' no longer resembles anything like the news of old. It is little more than a nation-wide recreation of a 'Springer' episode.

Do not pay attention to the 'news'. As I have told the students at the school where I used to work, "Anyone with a computer and an art program can create a very realistic looking site with very real sounding news and information. Take everything... everything you read on the internet with a bucket of salt." The goal of mass media today is to entertain and draw sponsorship, not to inform.