I think I understand the press’s role of reporting the news, the facts, while attempting to remain objective and unbiased. But there has to be a more aggressive tact than the current antiseptic, measured way the press speaks of what’s going on in the country.
Yes, people are sounding the alarm, but there also continues to be this annoying tendency to restrain a sense of urgency, to refuse to be angry, to treat what’s happening in Washington as just another fascinating news story, or some sort of harmless novelty. Non-descript headlines, like they’re reporting on some inconsequential shuffleboard tournament, aren’t helping. There has to be some middle ground between words that incite violence or reek of bias or incur the wrath of Herr Donald, and words that are just not strong enough to goad people into serious reflection and action.
Then again, I suppose if the news organizations are doing their job, it’s left to us– the viewers and listeners and readers– to decide whether or not we take this seriously.
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