The Streisand Defect

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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.

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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.