I'm sorry you got angry responses to your article, but please don't do yourself the disservice of deciding that the squeaky wheels represent everyone who disagrees with you. People who hurl insults at you aren't presenting a logical argument and are just spewing emotions. However, I don't think you would write about how we should ignore Trump because his fans wrote you unhinged messages, and I don't think we should ignore CNN because their fans or antifans become unhinged. There are real problems with how CNN tried to make money from defaming E. Jean Carroll again, and how they seeded their studio audience. But if you decide on the tone argument - people were mean to me, therefore everyone agrees with the mean people is wrong - you'll end up misrepresenting the actual arguments against CNN rigging the news.
I would love to think I could just ignore these issues and stop fighting the finger trap. All I have to do is stop arguing! And then people won't cheer fascism anymore! And everyone would know the difference between propaganda and journalism! I hope you're right, but it sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Thank you for your response. Although the responses I posted were hurtful, for the most part I just ignored them and discarded them out of hand. I don't want to give the impression you should ignore Trump out of a fear of mean retaliation; I mean it in the sense you shouldn't let it fire the left up so collectively that they lose their minds; that's the trap.
Were there problems with the CNN town hall? Sure. I don't think they "rigged the news" as you put it so much as they looked incompetent in controlling the discussion. Town Halls tend to do that but its usually audiences causing it and not the speaker.
But the canard is that many in the media are saying they should treat Trump differently this time since he's so dangerous. It's a canard because they treated him differently LAST time. Frankly, they should treat him the same as they would a Nikki Haley and bring him back down to earth. Placed next to a "normal" person his insanity becomes much more evident to everyone without saying a word. Nonethless, liberals can't fall into the trap of reiterating, restating with righteous indignation and eventually amplifying every stupid thing he says. Its better to ignore him and don't give him the attention. The liberal anger is what his supporters want.
I was more ticked off about the audience than the town hall itself. If CNN was a bunch of “undercover fascists” they’d just have MAGA activists on staff. CNN is chasing ratings like any lowest common denominator entertainment, you go for whatever gets people watching. They might have some journalistic integrity but in the end that’s not what the suits are in it for. What differentiates them from Fox, aside from their personal politics, is that they’re not dumb enough to allege mass fraud without airtight evidence. There’s no point in getting angry about the company.
That audience though... The reaction to hearing your candidate get called out for sexual assault should be, if you don’t believe it, outrage and booing or just apathetic eye-rolling. But to laugh at it? That would imply that you don’t care if he did rape a woman.
That’s the kind of person calling others sheep as they follow a hell-bound shepherd right up to the gates
I'm sorry you got angry responses to your article, but please don't do yourself the disservice of deciding that the squeaky wheels represent everyone who disagrees with you. People who hurl insults at you aren't presenting a logical argument and are just spewing emotions. However, I don't think you would write about how we should ignore Trump because his fans wrote you unhinged messages, and I don't think we should ignore CNN because their fans or antifans become unhinged. There are real problems with how CNN tried to make money from defaming E. Jean Carroll again, and how they seeded their studio audience. But if you decide on the tone argument - people were mean to me, therefore everyone agrees with the mean people is wrong - you'll end up misrepresenting the actual arguments against CNN rigging the news.
I would love to think I could just ignore these issues and stop fighting the finger trap. All I have to do is stop arguing! And then people won't cheer fascism anymore! And everyone would know the difference between propaganda and journalism! I hope you're right, but it sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Thank you for your response. Although the responses I posted were hurtful, for the most part I just ignored them and discarded them out of hand. I don't want to give the impression you should ignore Trump out of a fear of mean retaliation; I mean it in the sense you shouldn't let it fire the left up so collectively that they lose their minds; that's the trap.
Were there problems with the CNN town hall? Sure. I don't think they "rigged the news" as you put it so much as they looked incompetent in controlling the discussion. Town Halls tend to do that but its usually audiences causing it and not the speaker.
But the canard is that many in the media are saying they should treat Trump differently this time since he's so dangerous. It's a canard because they treated him differently LAST time. Frankly, they should treat him the same as they would a Nikki Haley and bring him back down to earth. Placed next to a "normal" person his insanity becomes much more evident to everyone without saying a word. Nonethless, liberals can't fall into the trap of reiterating, restating with righteous indignation and eventually amplifying every stupid thing he says. Its better to ignore him and don't give him the attention. The liberal anger is what his supporters want.
I was more ticked off about the audience than the town hall itself. If CNN was a bunch of “undercover fascists” they’d just have MAGA activists on staff. CNN is chasing ratings like any lowest common denominator entertainment, you go for whatever gets people watching. They might have some journalistic integrity but in the end that’s not what the suits are in it for. What differentiates them from Fox, aside from their personal politics, is that they’re not dumb enough to allege mass fraud without airtight evidence. There’s no point in getting angry about the company.
That audience though... The reaction to hearing your candidate get called out for sexual assault should be, if you don’t believe it, outrage and booing or just apathetic eye-rolling. But to laugh at it? That would imply that you don’t care if he did rape a woman.
That’s the kind of person calling others sheep as they follow a hell-bound shepherd right up to the gates