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Do I hear crickets?
Let's see - one candidate gets a free ride on everything that they actually DID (covering up crime, national security breaches, foreign policy cluster fuck, in bed with Wall Street and big business etc.), while the headlines day and night focus on something someone allegedly SAID and how "dangerous" does it make him.
Yes it may sound like a joke but it's in fact reality. That's the absurdity of today in its full glory and that's also what makes these day's press completely irrelevant and useless.
There is one good thing for the US that happened during this presidential race so far, that is, that the Donald and his press-bait antics helped to fully reveal how completely biased, how far away from any sort of journalism code, how pretentious, pathetic and worthless has the press become.
It's no longer about an actual investigative work, or serving information that is not selectively cherry-picked, it's about spinning, and manipulating what even can be investigated, what even can be published, what is supposed to get scandalized, what is supposed to be repeated over and over.
I guess this quote from Thomas Jefferson may as well be more relevant than ever:
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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