What happened to the media?

[aix_xpert]

I've complained about the media not being able to process sarcasm, hyperbole, irony or anything tongue-in-cheek. I thought it was agenda-based against Trump. Then this week, Ben Rothlesberger makes a clearly tongue-in-cheek comment about "maybe I just don't have it any more", and it becomes the banner headline on ESPN and Fox News and a question in the next 3 days worth of press conferences. When did the media lose any and all ability to comprehend anything but the most literal interpretation of statements.

 

[Inky29]

When they realized the National Enquirer will probably be the last newspaper standing because sensationalism sells. They did it with Ivanka Trump's comments about being the first lady, turned it into something much greater than it was. Our country is ripe for the picking because there are so many idiots out there, we just keep dumbing ourselves down daily.

 

[MegaPoke]

It's not just the media. It's the entire church of post modernism - including message board posters who clutch their pearls at "fagasaurus rex."

The media is just the inquisition department.

Victorian Prudes with no sense of humor.

 

[Alpha Poke]

I gave up when they tied Islam to Progressive without a smirk.

What happens when the tip of the Progressive spear, the homos, switch sides?

They can't keep playing on the same team as the Pals of Muhammad. Neither can women.

 

[anon_xl72qcu5isp39]

I've complained about the media not being able to process sarcasm, hyperbole, irony or anything tongue-in-cheek. I thought it was agenda-based against Trump. Then this week, Ben Rothlesberger makes a clearly tongue-in-cheek comment about "maybe I just don't have it any more", and it becomes the banner headline on ESPN and Fox News and a question in the next 3 days worth of press conferences. When did the media lose any and all ability to comprehend anything but the most literal interpretation of statements.

I kind of agree. And then once someone is labeled as interesting or funny they go completely overboard, like with Mike Leach. I like him too, but now EVERYTHING he says is a special pearl.

 

[poke2001]

I think it is the internet + 24 hour news cycle. It is so critical to be first, they don’t have time to see if it was real, sarcasm, etc.

 

[JimmyBob]

I think it is the internet + 24 hour news cycle. It is so critical to be first, they don’t have time to see if it was real, sarcasm, etc.

Even if they had the time, we'd still get the bullshit that fits their narrative.