You can dismiss my earlier points by blaming my watching CNN. Truth is, I rarely watch CNN. But the points I made are sarcastic examples of media and the public jumping all over the place regarding topics and issues. Attention deficit victims. I could do the exact same thing by pointing out this problem by identifying precise quotes from Trump himself -- dumb and crude stuff he seems to say and tweet on a daily basis. The media leaps around covering and over-analyzing the stupid quotes and tweets every day, just like he issues them every day. Over and over and over and over... My point is that we don't spend any time thinking about real issues anymore. It's all childish drama and petty baloney and the weirded out hyperbole of a ego-maniac who happens to be our president. We're all being reduced to bickering and drowning in attention deficit syndrome. I get the feeling that that's just what our president wants.
Originally Posted by agrarian
Well, you may have correctly diagnosed our collective illness (ADD), but you mistakenly seem to think the affliction was brought on by trumpy and is of recent vintage. Go back to 1980. Reagan was elected and CNN was launched. The 24-hour news cycle was birthed. Since then, the media has become increasingly fickle, childish, undisciplined, and biased. So-called journalists stopped keeping a wall between facts and opinion and started chasing after ratings at all costs. It's been a long, downhill journey ever since. The advent of social media accelerated the negative trends. Trumpy didn't create this clusterfuck, he just figured out how to make it work for him. You need to look deeper, and elsewhere, to assign blame.