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Edit: Just to clarify, my stance here is not "ignore everything Trump." He has done and will do quite a lot of things that warrant attention and concern. He's also a serial liar and world class bullshitter. A human testament to the phrase, "actions speak louder than words." Donald Trump's political success has always hinged on the fact that people are quick to forget that. He's already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

This is exactly why instead of expecting the media to evolve or adapt I encourage people to walk away from corporate news.

I'm not a zealot, so follow it if you like, just know that it has its own goals and one of them is to hook you on its crappy product and convince you that it is the sole arbiter of truth...when it's really stuffing its billionaire-sponsored narratives down your throat.

The reality is that if the news were in any way objective and about "the truth", it would steadily maintain reality-based positions over time, but it doesn't. It adapts based upon what its billionaire owners want and based upon the whims of the electorate -- all the while pretending that it does nothing to influence the whims of the electorate when it very clearly does.