The only bloodbath in America right now is the bowels of liberal hypocrisy splattered all over social media
By Social Links for Piers Morgan
Published March 18, 2024, 2:18 p.m. ET
When Donald Trump became president, he quickly developed a favorite morning hobby.
“I wake up early,” he revealed to me a few months into his tenure. “And if I don’t like what I see about myself on the TV screens in my bedroom, I pull out my phone in bed and tweet something that makes them all change to BREAKING NEWS and a completely different story based on my tweet.”
Then he burst out laughing.
I did, too.
There was something genuinely hilarious about the most powerful man on Earth being able to manipulate the media so easily with just a casual flick of his fingers.
But as a journalist, I also found it very dispiriting that the media were so willing to be manipulated in this way.
Of course, we know why: ratings.
The formula was very simple, for both TV networks and newspapers: Take a Trump tweet, massively exaggerate whatever he was saying, and BOOM — watch those ratings fly.
This went on for four years and became an increasingly ludicrous game that suited both parties.
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