It was all about how special and honorable the media was and then donald trump showed up and called them all losers, revealing that nobody really cared about them
It was all about how special and honorable the media was and then donald trump showed up and called them all losers, revealing that nobody really cared about them
If the ideas of The Newsroom were even mildly accurate, then Trump attacking the media would be a death sentence, and Rachel Maddow would have stopped him with a powerful speech. But no, the words "fake news" were enough to render them useless
I think the reason that "fake news" was effective had to do a lot with the decades of shitty news reporting causing people to lose trust in the media. The Iraq War would be our big moment where we slowly lost trust in the media but there were a lot of others that eroded that trust as well.
If this were a different era, where people actually trusted their local news anchor, I think Trump would have been destroyed by the media.
You can say the same for the Dems though. If Edward R. Murrow were around, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and other chum would never have been able to float out of the Senate and gain national prominence. They did it by being "kinder" shitty Republicans.