LogFAQs > #906098154

The one core aspect of Trump that helps propel him is absolutely true: his claim that the media is bad. It absolutely is.

Now once you start to build on that, by calling it fake, or positioning yourself as the superior alternative, it falls apart; but the underlying idea that any media company operating in a for-profit economic system is inherently broken as a neutral public voice is a reality.

The grim realities surrounding the Saudis and Yemen, or Israel and Palestine, being less exposed than other items of more interest to the average American (and thus more lucrative to the news networks) is the obvious evidence of that.

Trump was savvy enough to seize on that, and craft a persona around being the antidote. An amazingly flimsy persona IMO but an effective one nonetheless, because too many people dont grasp what a false dichotomy is.
---

Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRlKR5nU8AA_v_C?format=jpg&name=large