Why is M$Greedia obsessed with the criminal vulgarian

[malaise]

Slobfather?

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Views and clicks and ad $$$$

He draws attention and drives ratings.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Entertainment, IMO.

Trump is a real-life version of The Truman Show. The ultimate reality show.

It's where voters vote for Trump because he's "interesting" versus Joe Biden who just does his job. It's Nielsen, not democracy.

[rampartc]

3. people pay to see demolition derbies and 'rasslin' matches

trump has that kind of entertainment value.

[enough]

4. As the head of CBS said, Trump may be bad for America but he's great for CBS

https://fair.org/home/the-trump-campaign-bad-for-america-but-good-for-cbs/

[Sympthsical]

5. Because people watch

The media follow eyeballs.

When people are obsessed with watching/reading/clicking on Trump, the media listens.

At some point, people have to hold themselves responsible for it.

Just like people forever complaining about Fox, but god knows, they simultaneously seem to know everything that airs on that channel.

Weird, right?

[tanyev]

6. Why did mainstream news stop emulating Walter Cronkite and start emulating Entertainment Tonight?

$$$$$$$

[Freethinker65]

7. Same reason media, and social media (like even DU), repeat every sophomoric thing Musk Tweets.

Trump and Musk know every outrageous thing they say/do will give them free publicity and keep them "newsworthy". They love the attention and, perhaps more troubling, it keeps people from learning about more important things that truly affect their lives.