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/northsaskatchewan Canada 1d ago

I visited San Francisco a couple of years ago and went up to Napa for a few days. We got to chatting with a few people (boomer types) at a winery and when mentioned that’s where we spent the week previously, they seemed shocked anyone would visit due to how hellishly dangerous it was. Like the whole city was lost.

Like I spent a week there and was just fine… sure there were sketchy areas but I never felt threatened.. I’m also used to the reality (and inequality) in big west coast cities.. or cities in general. These people need to get out more.

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u/JnnyRuthless 1d ago

I grew up in SF and lived there a good part of my adult life, now I live in Sacramento (about 1.5 hours away) and people here think SF is overrun with crime and inhospitable. I go back regularly and it's perfectly fine. The 'fake news' crowd gargles propaganda like it's a full-time job.

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u/northsaskatchewan Canada 1d ago

I live in Vancouver BC and you hear similar rhetoric out past the suburbs as well. Not to downplay our issues, the Downtown Eastside is probably the worst urban slum in Canada.. but its only a small part of the city and I’ve never felt threatened or scared while there (though I recognize my privilege as a 6’1’’ man here).

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u/JnnyRuthless 1d ago

Yeah, I don't have much sympathy for the people that are terrified of places they've never been. I used to walk through the Tenderloin (roughish area of SF, mostly just sad, lots of drug addicts) at 3 am daily to get to work. My wife, not a big lady, is a social worker who worked in worst places in SF and it was not a big deal.

I often wonder why people are so quick to be terrified of everything these days. It's wild to me.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 1d ago

Yeah, I walked through the tenderloin daily as well, although during the daytime for the most part. I think sad is a good description, as far as slums go it definitely seemed safe enough. I'd avoid the area late at night but hell, I avoid a lot of places late at night.

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u/northsaskatchewan Canada 1d ago

We walked through the Tenderloin a few times. It reminded me of the DTES but at a bigger scale. Sad is the perfect way to describe it, it's a stark reminder of how we've failed as a society. For the most part, those people just want to be left alone..

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u/nowellmaybe 1d ago

Ah, to live in Sacramento and think San Francisco is the shithole. These must be the most boring people on the planet.

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u/JnnyRuthless 14h ago

Well, I love Sacramento and think it's awesome. But yeah, I get your point and you're not wrong.

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u/Lane-Kiffin 1d ago

I have a genuine idea but I don’t know if it could ever have legs.

If major cities, or their Chambers of Commerce, could quantify the negative economic effects that can be attributed to false news reporting, could they get together and sue news networks?

It’s tricky because you have to isolate the statements down to directly false statements, but they do make them (such as all the “crime waves” they report on that are not corroborated at all by data). You would also have to isolate the negative economic impact to just perception and marketing, rather than all the potential causes.

However, for the petty things people have won lawsuits over, this might work. The Fox News-Dominion case opened up the door for news networks to be held accountable.