Had to look that one up.youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:59 pmI almost feel like we might agree, but you want to make sure you don’t say it…. Mr. KlugscheisserMDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:14 pmYou need to take a look at the entirely false, downright fraudulent stories they ran during the 2015-16 cycle. They are NOT a legitimate news source at all, though they may break a story now and then with salacious behavior that is actually true.youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:08 pmProving my point, TNI and all the other tabloids have survived on this tpe of stuff.....ask yourself "Hmmm....why do these types of outlets predominantly go to print as the first to break so many epic stories and have photos to back it up.....zactly". They are in the game...and guess what, we are getting a look under the hood....RIGHT NOW.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:39 pmI'll give youth a slight pass, at least for the moment ...let's just say instead of "everybody does it", let's just accept his "quite often" to mean that some powerful celebrities have indeed proven to be entirely dysfunctional as human beings and downright sociopaths enabled by their money, celebrity and power to exercise all of their worst impulses. "show biz and politics" and sports and business...a percentage of all such have disgusting morals, like the population as a whole, it's just that celebrity, power and money make it easier.SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:30 pmOh, you're giving Trump a pass all right. "Everybody does it." That'll be the new campaign line after he's found guilty and "DOJ has been weaponized against us" no longer works up MAGA enough.youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:13 pm Call it cynical, or sketchy, but I really feel like damned near everything associated with Trump and the trials, is giving the public a peak behind the curtain as to what takes place quite often...espeically in show biz and politics. It's almost as if its intentional to normalize shenanigans. Not giving Trump a pass at all.
Weinstein, Cosby, etc, etc...and absolutely Trump falls in this category of disgusting but enabled men. They've been increasingly getting exposed as such, and that's not 'normalizing', right? It's exposing them as the disgusting POS they really are, right?
That said, not sure who youth means as choosing to be "intentional to normalize shenanigans"...does he mean that Trump is seeking to "normalize" such? Surely not the prosecutors, right? Does he mean the news media? Ain't buying it unless he means Fox and NewsMax and AON.
Youth, look at the covers of The National Enquirer during the 2015-2016 campaign season. They had never before endorsed any candidate, never taken any side, and yet wrote the most disgusting and entirely and knowingly untrue stories about various political opponents of Trump, ridiculously fawning pieces about Trump...so, maybe you're saying, youth, that publications like that were trying to "normalize" ? As have Fox et al?
Back to 'everybody does it', that's absolutely NOT the case as most people really do have sound morals albeit we're all subject to temptation. The key is to make sound ethical judgments in the face of such temptation. And most people do, most of the time.
Trump has never done so. His only ethic is short term personal benefit.
They go to print first with such because other news orgs don't PAY for tattle tales and when someone wants to tattle and get paid, they're the top game in town. AND they print untrue garbage all the time too. Other orgs are more scrupulous or at least that's their self-professed and understood culture. They don't earn their viewers with most salacious, it's with most truthful. They don't always get that right, and they certainly are happy to break serious stories when they have the goods or believe they do, but it ain't these "checkbook journalists" like Pecker and crew.
EXCEPT when it's part of scheme to catch and kill for some expected quid pro quo benefit.
What we are "getting a look under the hood" at is how seedy and unethical this checkbook journalism game is. No concern for truth, just readership.
Which part do you agree with, which part, if any, not?
I'm happy to find agreement.