Ah yes because the mainstream media censored Trump so much. I didn't see any coverage of him or his views anywhere! And I certainly didn't see the bullshit he said just simply parroted and repeated in newspaper headlines without any clarification or fact checking at all.
> Ah yes because the mainstream media censored Trump so much.
I'm not even american, but even I noticed how major media companies such as CNN or NBC insisted in dedicating major time slots just to defame and harass Trump.
I mean, in CNN we even had Fareed Zakaria dedicating all his show just to quite blatantly state that Trump was all kinds of awful and incompetent and unfit for president.
Whether Trump was or wasn't a good candidate is immaterial. The truth is that the bulk of the US mass media was gunning for Trump, some were subtle but others were going at it harder than attack ads.
> Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
I'm having a hard time telling from the link, but it seems that /u/spez censored personal insults directed at him, which, while still inexcuseable, is quite different from censoring merely alternative viewpoints.
That's probably not worse, but it's so incredibly petulant... I am not sure what it is about reddit that tends to attract such childish execs. First Yishan, now him.
The same Trump who dominated media coverage for about a year? The one who participated in televised debates seen by millions? If anything, the problem was that his views got too much coverage.
> The reason why so much of it was negative is because the majority of things he said were flat out lies or smearing other people.
What if your beloved media companies dedicated themselves to spin everything Trump said to cast it at a bad light, and bent themselves backwards to filter in only the unpopular stuff?
There was no impartial coverage of Trump. In fact, the US coverage did its best to focus only on two candidates, and invested heavily in gunning down one of those candiates. This, in spite of their pet candidate being involved in multiple criminal investigations and suffering from debilitating health problems.
Sorry, 'serge', but I am gonna call out things the president-elect says - such as that three million people voted illegally in the last election - as what they are: grade A bullshit.
Part of the problem is that it seems like the lines between legitimate conservative views and hate speech were blurred a little bit this election. I live in Minnesota and Trump came and talked about Somali refugees here in a way that angered a lot of residents. That's even not counting the people who are blatantly racist like the ones that put up posters based off of literal Nazi propaganda at the university I used to go to.
Give me a fucking break.