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Trump admits he didn’t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to
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"Distracting headlines" as a canard gets a bit old. Everything is a distraction from everything else, because we have a heavily monopolized mass media and a shrinking pool of investigative journalists with any kind of budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#United_States
When you had twice as many newspapers and half as many people, the idea of "distracting headlines" was more a matter of consumer choice (you could read serious news at the New York Times or junk pop-media at the New York Post). Now media functions as a cartel, with papers all echoing one another on topics of the day. Or deliberately remaining silent on embarrassments the business community owners would rather not talk about.
This isn't a "Trump" problem, though. Its a problem of consolidation and privatization on a national scale.
Well, look at lemmy anytime someone posts a link that requires you to pay for the journalism. Pitchforks and torches. People don't want to pay for quality journalism, do they get whatever billionaires want to feed them.
People don't want to pay for something they don't think is quality.
It's not like these companies would clean up their act if they got another viable revenue stream. We can see that because when companies do, they regularly just keep the extra cash.
What you'd need is a boot strapped organization that actually had standards people cared about and didn't bend. Its an impossibly hard situation, yes, but that does not make your snark prescient or clever. More than that, it doesnt at all back up your conclusion that people don't want to pay for quality journalism. It just doesnt exist, because it gets bought out by billionaires.
It was bought by billionaires after people stopped paying.
it was already owned by billionaires when people were still paying
If you want to think so to make yourself feel better...