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When we talk about money in politics, there is very little mention of money in the press. The most watched news in the US are for profit, and most of those channels run on a model that is not designed to inform but to keep people engaged (unfortunately through outrage) and sell those eyeballs to advertisers.I appreciate him confronting Trump and calling him out. I feel like we rarely see people do that and I don’t understand why.
If Trump got fact checked hard every time he went on a non-rightwing TV set, he would stop going, people would stop watching, and executives would make heads roll. You should see what happened when some of the fools in the administration wanted to run the same misinformation schemes on British TV. They got run out of town by serious journalists.