I break away from Fox News every time they show a My Pillow commercial. I can’t tolerate that dude with the cheesy mustache.
CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage ‘the audience goes away’
Imagine if you told the truth all the time, the audience may actually grow.
That’s a great point, and adds to the facts I wrote above. They are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. They need ratings so they cover Trump. Four times more political coverage this cycle than the last mid-terms. But, they hate Trump so they spin it almost entirely negative.
And yet they forget the old Hollywood axiom, ‘a knock is as good as a plug’. They are giving him free coverage. And he plays them like a fiddle every time. They are all out anti-Trump and his approval ratings jump 10% points as a result.
The answer seems obvious, either stop covering Trump or start giving him good coverage. Well they are so brainwashed into believing he is Mephistopheles they won’t give him fair coverage even though journalistic ethics requires it (they have thrown the ethics book away, and have brought in a new crop of very sloppy thinking commentators). But if they stop covering him altogether the rating and advertising revenues plummet and they lose their jobs.