All media are free to make as much money as they can. As trump violated all standards of decency and morality, ratings soared. They are still high for all things trump. This is a lot like how the media covers violence, “if it bleeds it leads.” But real journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and even The Wall Street Journal are also taking great pains to be accurate and factual—not only because it gets ratings, but because they have ethical standards they try to adhere to.
Needless to say trump has no ethical standards, but his mental illness has a lot to do with that. So far the republicans have also shown far lower ethical standards than the real journalists.
All media are free to make as much money as they can. As trump violated all standards of decency and morality, ratings soared. They are still high for all things trump. This is a lot like how the media covers violence, “if it bleeds it leads.” But real journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and even The Wall Street Journal are also taking great pains to be accurate and factual—not only because it gets ratings, but because they have ethical standards they try to adhere to.
Needless to say trump has no ethical standards, but his mental illness has a lot to do with that. So far the republicans have also shown far lower ethical standards than the real journalists.