{"id":22704,"date":"2017-02-09T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:56:45","slug":"fake-and-false-and-just-plain-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22704","title":{"rendered":"Fake and False and Just Plain Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nPaul C\u00e9zanne\u00a0Les (Grandes) Baigneuses\u00a0<\/b>1905\u00a0<\/center>Two and a half weeks after the inauguration, and yes it\u2019s only been that long, the media still don\u2019t seem to have learned a single thing. They help the Trump campaign on an almost hourly basis by parroting whatever things, invariably judged as crazy, he says. One day it\u2019s that negative polls are all fake news, the next it\u2019s some list of underreported terror events. All of it gets an avalanche of attention provided by the very people who claim to be against Trump, but greatly help his cause by doing so.<\/p>\n

Not a single thing learned. If Trump tweets tomorrow that tomatoes are really fruits and he\u2019s going to have someone draw up a law to make them so, or that Lego should be recognized as an official building material in order to have the Danes, too, pay for the wall, it will be on the front page of every paper and the opening item for every TV news show. The crazier he makes them, the more serious they are taken. The echo chamber is so eager to incessantly repeat to itself and all its inhabitants that he\u2019s a crazy dude, it\u2019s beyond embarrassing.<\/p>\n

And it takes us ever further away, and rapidly too, from any serious discussion about serious issues, the one very thing that the Trump empire desperately calls for. The press should simply ignore the crazy stuff and focus on what\u2019s real, but they can\u2019t bring themselves to do so for fear of losing ratings and ad revenues. All Trump needs to do, and that\u2019s not a joke, is to fart or burp into their echo chamber and they\u2019ll all be happy and giddy and all excited and self-satisfied. A spectacle to behold if ever there was one.<\/p>\n

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