The Streisand Defect

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Wasn't it the CEO of NBC at the time who said in 2016 "Trump is bad for America but great for us"?

[rubberelectrons@lemmy.world]

Exactly how I felt about it as it was happening, fucking stop talking about his bullshit! We know he's bad news!

[djsoren19@yiffit.net]

I guess you're right. For the comic to really be accurate, it'd need a panel with the news saying "Awful man has solid ideas and policy regarding the economy."

[jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works]

I make my livin' off the evenin' news.
Just give me somethin', somethin' I can use.
People love it when you lose.
They love dirty laundry.

[adalast@lemmy.world]

Except that is not what is being found now. Actually, many people who voted for him didn't actually know anything about his "bad news" because they didn't watch the sources that were actually reporting on the truly bad stuff and now they are finding out and are regretting their decisions. In the days after the election Google reported a spike in searches related to "Changing your vote USA".

[rubberelectrons@lemmy.world]

I remember reading about that too. I wonder where the truth lies in all this.

[mehblah@lemmy.world]

This song is proof nothing has changed in over forty years.

[adalast@lemmy.world]

As I remember the sources we saw it in were in the reputable realm. I also think think many of these people voted for him to vote against Kamala (or against a woman) but didn't actually think he would win because their vote didn't matter.

[absolutechicagodog@lemm.ee]

You mean exactly how Lemmy treats Elon Musk?

[doomsider@lemmy.world]

No, he is just objectively a terrible human being.

[someamateur@sh.itjust.works]

"Enough Musk Spam! People give him WAY too much attention!"

also

"look at his new project? what a idiot"

"did you see his new tweet? (not calling it X )"

"look at this photo of him at this event he's aging lol!"

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

The thing is, it's not even what's depicted in the comic. The media constantly softballed Trump. While some of his success, especially initially in 2015/16, can be attributed to "No publicity is bad publicity", the fact also is that the media at large was unwilling to call out Trump's bullshit for what it was, because it would lose them part of their viewer base for very little gain.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

Unwilling is one way to put it. Complicit as hell is how i would say it. Every phrasing of every headline i have seen for years now has been manufactured to share blame, shield blame or outright place blame where it doesn't belong. Slap "sources say" on the end and you apparently can say whatever you want.