For the past three years, almost every time I turn on the radio to get the news when I wake up, the first sentence I hear has the name Trump in it, and often the first word I hear is Trump.
And this is despite the fact that I have never heard the man say anything of content or consequence.
My observation is that the media have been completely out-maneuvered and manipulated by the president into an all-Trump, all-the-time modus operandi. A single tweet, less than 140 characters, about the trans-gendered in the military essentially stopped for several news cycles the tsunami of coverage about Russian influence on the current administration.
There is an old saying: never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
What needs to happen is for the conventional media to simply stop covering everything Trump. Another saying, from online forums, is DNFTT: Do Not Feed the Troll.
If I were a journalist worthy of the label, I would sooner quit than cover a tweet.
I understand the commercial news media’s motivation: their business model is pimping eyeballs to the next commercial, period; it is completely and absolutely irrelevant to them what is on between commercials other than that it serve that purpose.
I do not understand public radio’s fascination with President Trump; one scary possibility that fits the facts is that it is to deliver ears to the next pledge drive.
Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, and company give me all I need to hear about the president, and they do it better than either commercial or public news media.
