Media Crack

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Symbiosis

“Trump is not just an instant ratings/circulation/clicks gold mine; he’s the motherlode. He stepped onto the presidential campaign stage precisely at a moment when the media is struggling against deep insecurities about its financial future. The truth is, the media has needed Trump like a crack addict needs a hit.”

—Ann Curry, former NBC “Today” show anchor, in Nicholas Kristof, “My Shared Shame: The Media Helped Make Trump,” The New York Times, March 26, 2016

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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• Editorial Comment: The reality/soap opera/gameshow/World Wrestling Federation/Mad Max world loves the Drumpf.


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