In no way does this ever excuse violence, but maybe it should be considered that ordinary people have legitimate reasons to disdain "the media" as a nebulous conceptual entity, given all the horrendous failings that the media has been complicit in over the years
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At this point it would be quite useful to name the individuals whose behavior has led to a poor public perception of "the media". Allowing them to hide behind the abstraction allows they to evade accountability and use others as human shields. Let's start: Jim Acosta...
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way to normalize violence. Nice job
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Except of course that Trump has named specific news organizations and specific reporters and vilified them at his rallies. Nothing nebulous about that.
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We literally have examples of people screaming and yelling and threatening harm to individual members of the media.
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You do understand what you're saying is in the realm of psychology, not philosophy? You can't link behavioural cause and effect just because you hope it so.
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where do you get your weed?
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"The media" as conceptual entity made much more sense when it referred to the 3/4 major broadcasters (+CNN) and a few coastal/national newspapers (WaPo, Boston Globe, NYT, LAT). Proliferation of national outlets via internet distribution means the abstraction contains multitudes.
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