I'm confused by this idea that journalists lack individual agency and are somehow obligated to frantically cover every crazed Trump tweet.
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Agency isn't black-and-white. When your livelihood depends on pageviews you're incentivized to cover what gets clicks.
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What's the logic that means we should take seriously his Flint water promise, but ignore his tweets? How do you decide?
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I have a response to this Q. and you've slightly misrepresented my take, but laying it out in full is ill-suited to Twitter.
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ignore them!
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Thank you for this. Good Christ it's painful watching the media in a perpetual outrage loop
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I don't know, I like that "losing-your-citizenship-for-a-year" thing. Like it a lot. Totem or not, some things need to be sacred.
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Perfect article. I actually enjoy reading the reactions, rather than the tweets themselves
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they get paid to do this?
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It's possible you fall into this category, not saying it's true but possiblepic.twitter.com/fSNrDLERWC
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I agree with Trump. TOO many lost their lives fighting for this country, it's an insult to their memory.
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this is the strategy guide for activists & press I've been distributing re: Trump tweetspic.twitter.com/D9iaYMgbg9
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2meta4me, brb, got to get paid to overreact to something.
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appreciate this and largely agree. This tweet disturbed me though
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good article, Michael. I agree with all your points. Unfortunately, covering Trump's tweets is good for ratings.
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