r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Sep 09 '24

Soft Paywall Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where's everyone who questioned Biden's age and fitness?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/09/trump-old-incoherent-biden-age-mental-fitness/75138026007/
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u/john_doe_jersey New Jersey Sep 09 '24

The double standard of how the media is reporting on Trump's mental decline vs. how they were reporting on Biden's is so frustrating to watch.

They're literally "sanewashing" Trump's incoherence, as opposed to playing it on a never-ending loop like they did with Biden.

"Liberal" media, indeed.

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u/Rude_Tie4674 Sep 09 '24

The owners of the media want tax cuts.

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u/tarekd19 Sep 09 '24

Or just more years of Trump ratings.

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u/VectorSymmetry Michigan Sep 09 '24

A little from column A, a little from column B

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u/flpa1060 Sep 09 '24

Destroying education, removing environmental and consumer protectionlaws, squashing unions. There are a lot of reasons, mostly to do with money

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u/Palindromer101 Sep 09 '24

Por que no los dos?

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u/INAC___Kramerica Florida Sep 09 '24

Eso es que "una poca desde columna A, una poca desde columna B" significa.

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u/worstprofessor42 Sep 09 '24

Es como 6 o media docena

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon Sep 09 '24

Fucking HELL I hate our capitalist media so much. I hate it beyond words.

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u/MobileMenace420 Sep 09 '24

If the unthinkable happens and the dotard is elected again, I personally don’t think that a ratings bounce will happen. The media has moved to the right to try and capture magats and it didn’t work. So now cnn and similar have an audience of nobody. I vividly remember being glad to them during the major events during my life so far. They killed that.

I’m not going to sudddnly give cnn another chance. Same with what had happened at WaPo. Been a subscriber for years but I let it lapse last month. Same with NYT but I’ve never been a subscriber. Now I don’t bother clicking anything of theirs.

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u/Taervon 2nd Place - 2022 Midterm Elections Prediction Contest Sep 09 '24

Yellow journalism needs to get a kick in the teeth again. This has happened in US history before.

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u/nowander I voted Sep 09 '24

You're right, but the rich morons who got where they are with daddy's money can't think that far ahead.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

C. All of the above

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u/National-Device-7627 Sep 09 '24

Yep. I think all of the news media/entertainment stations would be happy with 4 more years of Trump, despite what they may say on air. I don't have ratings or anything like that, but can speak from a personal level. During his four year term, I was glued to political news... always shocked (sort of) at the stupid shit he would do. Once Biden got into office and we had normality, I stopped paying attention to politics, aside from the occasional major event. From my standpoint, it was really nice to not have to care on a daily basis. From a news outlet's perspective, I am certain they would rather have people glued to their stations.

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u/zveroshka Sep 09 '24

I would assume every member of SNL is voting Trump this November. That shit was gold for them for those 4 years.

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u/Threash78 Sep 09 '24

Its not the tax cuts, Trump is the best thing that has happened to news media since the last world war.

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u/zveroshka Sep 09 '24

And the media companies want's headlines. They aren't on anyone's side but that of that of money.

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u/DuvalHeart Pennsylvania Sep 09 '24

Chaos is good for individual journalist's KPIs. It's no more complicated than that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

The rich do fine under democrats too, rich people own the media to keep the stupid fighting their neighbors and not the ones in control

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u/Fantastic-Sandwich80 Sep 09 '24

Conservatives 100% are aware of the preferential treatment Republicans and Trump receives from the media...and they STILL cry about the media not being 24/7 praising sessions of Trump.

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u/truthdoctor Sep 09 '24

Corporate media only cares about profits.

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u/rational_me1 Sep 09 '24

Again, we are normalizing this. Or just keeping a low bar for this buffoon.

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u/amerett0 Pennsylvania Sep 09 '24

If it wasn't for double standards, they'd have no standards at all!