The Game Has Changed
The story brought up many points of concern, but i feel like it was all very one sided and that side was very Liberal. It was not necessarily right of President elect Donald Trump to just cut off the reporter like he did, but at the same time what BuzzFeed did was very unethical. The 35 page dossier that they put out had no proof or evidence to support it. It claims that Trump has deep ties with Russia and that is bold accusation to make or even put out if there is nothing to support it. People might say it is okay that they put it out, but not everybody really does there research and they are just going to see it on the news and think it is more than likely true and to me that just is not a good position to put our president in, because if it is not true then what? It is already out and even if it is proven to be false it is already too late for some people to go back on.
The Show did have some valid points that I have not really noticed before. Trump would not even let the reporter talk. President elect Trump had failed to let that reporter do his job, but at the same time it was almost like Trump was being attacked and there is just no need to talk about something that has no actual support. The reporter needs to get the evidence together and once that is done Trump would have no option, but to give him the time of day.
Trump cuts people off when they start to talk about things that he feels are threatening. The things he has been accused of would have put an end to his campaign a long time ago if he would have been a nominee in any prior elections, but he is really good at redirecting the media's attention on other people, or even just other topics that sometimes are not even relevant. For example when he made the comment about how great the inauguration is going to be and how there would not even be enough dresses in Washington DC, but at the same time why is that little comment so important to people?
Rebbeca Solnit finding hope in the dark had so much more meaning to it then the title would lead you to believe. She is not saying that the dark is bad by any means. She is saying that the dark is the future and the future is something we do not know. And it can be good or bad. She said that we are not living a scripted future and she is very right. She believes that we as a whole will decide how things turn out and she made some very good points. We will decide what is ethical and what is acceptable for society, if it is believed to be acceptable by enough people.
Although I tried my very best to keep an open mind to the show it was hard for me to follow because I just feel like it was all so very one sided and to me that was that Trump is destroying the media and just taking it over. There was nothing positive said about him really and to me I just feel like people are just so one sided. If you were for Donald Trump you are going to look for every reason why he can not do any wrong and all you can really see is the good he is doing or at least saying that he is going to do. And if you are against him you are going to hold on to every little mistake he makes and you are going to believe everything bad you hear about him. It is almost hard for people to find a middle ground and once people make up their minds they are going to stick with it, at least that is what it seems like to me.
As for Solnit I agree with her completely. None of us really know what is going to happen. Everything in the dossier can be true or they could all be false accusations, we will not know until there is evidence one way or another and that is the darkness for us and we need to find the hope in that.
I completely agree with your analysis on the what the "darkness" truly entails. I'm definitely curious as to what the future has in store for all of us, but I'm hoping once we have solid facts on the dossier, it will be one step closer toward finding out the truth.
ReplyDelete