You know, Triggernometry blaming the left for the breakdown of media is a bit like blaming the waiter when the chef poisoned your food. Sure, he brought it to the table—but the cook in the back has been spitting in the soup since the Bush years.
Let’s be honest—Fox News never aimed for truth. It aimed for ratings. Saying Fox News “lowered the bar” is generous. They didn’t lower the bar—they sold it to a pawn shop and told their viewers it was the liberals who stole it.
Trump didn’t invent media distrust—he just stuck a red hat on it and told it Obama wasn’t American. He didn’t break the system. He realized the system was already broken, then monetized the sh*t out of it.
And now we’ve got these podcasters acting shocked that no one trusts the media. That’s like lighting a fire, selling marshmallows, and then complaining about the smoke.
The idea that news ever made money by telling the truth is adorable. Real journalism is expensive and inconvenient. Outrage is cheap and scalable. That’s not a bug in the system—it’s the business model. And who built that model? Not NPR. Not the Guardian. It was Rupert f***ing Murdoch and friends.
So when Triggernometry cries about cancel culture and declining media trust, it’s either disingenuous, ahistorical, or just good old-fashioned selective amnesia. Which, to be fair, is very on brand for the culture warriors—they only remember history when it flatters them.
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