Trump, Tucker, and Wildfires: Media Focusing on Completely Different Stories

The left, right, and middle are reporting on completely different stories and ignoring everything else. It exemplifies an increasingly divergent emphasis in news coverage.

Summary

California is being ravaged by wildfires, with the “Dixie fire” being the largest and more than 180,000 acres having been razed.

• The Dixie fire is one of 88 wildfires burning in the United States, with Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska also experiencing fires.
• According to the National Weather Service, there is so much wildfire smoke in the lower atmosphere, it is helping slow down burns.
• The Hill set aside any pretense of objectivity by declaring humans the cause of climate change and “inaction on climate change” is “exacerbating” dangers of wildfires.

• So, what is the left talking about? Tucker Carlson. Slate reported on a random person, Dan Bailey, feeling the need to record himself telling Tucker he is “the worst person in the world.”
• Salon celebrated the confrontation, the initiator of which then posted it on Instagram, at a bait store in Montana. Salon then shamed the store for not “telling Carlson to ‘stay out of Montana.’”
• Newsweek delighted in the exchange, and noted The Lincoln Project (a group of unemployable “Republican” political consultants who hid a sexual predator within their ranks) reposted the video, which “has been viewed more than 330,000 times.”

• Meanwhile, on the right, a Trump speech is leading the headlines. Newsmax reported on former President Trump’s speech at the Turning Point Action conference, in which Trump said “the facts are coming out”, referencing the incorrect claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
• OANN highlighted MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s offer of a $5 million reward to a “politician, cyber expert, or reporter” participating in an August symposium who can disprove the validity of the so-called evidence he has of “voter fraud.”
• RedState gushed over Trump’s ability to pack a theater to capacity while deriding Biden’s “lackluster barely attended” events, and highlighting random “seafood enthusiasts” on Twitter using the packed attendance of the event as evidence that Trump won the election.

Author’s Take

(Physical Reaction to Reading Today’s News)

This isn’t news, it is current events porn created and edited to confirm biases and elicit maximum eyeball coverage for revenue. Today’s headlines are one of the best examples of the alternate realities both the left and right sometimes live in.

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© Dallas Gerber, 2021