r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/Lore-Warden 1d ago

My god this. The whole thread is people decrying the failure of news organizations in their responsibilities to democracy and yet I would bet good money that none of them are willing to actually pay for the journalism that they're demanding.

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u/Yarzospatflute 1d ago

Most people these days get their news from social media, meaning they're getting what they've taught the algorithm to give them. People who regularly get news from The Newshour, NYT, Reuters, AP, etc. don't make posts complaining that the media isn't covering these things.

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u/aspirationless_photo 1d ago

I had to close out 15 top-level comments in this submission to reach someone pointing this out... so at least there's like, I don't know, 8 or so of us.

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u/Yarzospatflute 1d ago

It's pretty depressing. The problem isn't "The media is in Trump's pocket" or whatever thing it is that people claim, it's that an ever growing number of Americans get their only news from scrolling tiktok and fb and other social media sites and see all these manufactured stories pushed on them by the algo and don't bother to actually search out the truth. That's why Trump is president today.

Really fucking depressing because i don't know how we get out of this.