What’s America’s view on this Tucker Carlson?

  • Tom_Hanx_Hail_Satan@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, a lot of it is outrage bait. That is basically how Trump got elected, outrage -> coverage, coverage->legitimacy.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      It is fairly significant, he’s an aggressor in a war currently affecting everything from NATO to inflation. And he has denied access to Western interviewers up until now (in recent times).

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      9 months ago

      Because our “free press” is just the “ad fee press” now. Their ONLY concern is how much they can profit off of news coverage. Outrage = clicks/views = ad revenue.

      • Tja@programming.dev
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        9 months ago

        That’s what happens when people don’t want to pay for anything, including journalism.

        What are the first 15 comments everytime someone posts a NYT article? “oh, no, paywall, fuck the NYT, greedy Bastards what money for their work”.

        You end up with tabloids, clickbait and ad infested shit pages.