Media is in fear mongering mode.
Via AZ Central:
Few people track the news cycle more closely than Chuck Todd. The “Meet the Press” host and NBC News political director oversees mountains of reporting but wonders if Americans are even listening anymore.
In an interview earlier this week, Todd said he’s concerned that “the collective mainstream media’s coverage of Trump has turned into white noise for the public.”
He hears complaints from his audience that the media is too addicted to outrage, cranking every story up to 11. “I think those viewers have a point,” he said. “I do feel like we have to calibrate the outrage.”
If everything is a crisis, nothing isThe obvious result of our perpetually alarmed press corps is a tuned-out citizenry. For two years, every story involving Trump has been cranked to 11, whether it’s merited or not. Random tweets, unverified rumors and mere speculation generate similar hysteria to actual blockbusters, such as the sentencing of Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn.
When everything is a crisis, nothing is.[…]
An imminent Trump impeachment is the most prominent sky-is-falling narrative, but nearly everything involving the president kicks off a new frenzy.
Last December, Trump announced that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, ultimately moving our embassy there in May.
Chuck Todd’s own NBC News warned that the move would upend decades of U.S. policy, alarm world leaders and trigger violence across the Middle East. One year on, violence hasn’t markedly increased in the already violent region, and Australia and Guatemala joined in to recognize Jerusalem.
Also in December 2017, Americans were told that getting rid of net neutrality was going to kill the internet. Protesters mobbed the home of FCC chairman Ajit Pai and celebrities attacked him online.
NBC News predicted the aftermath: “Try this scenario on for size: You wake up, reach for your phone, and head to your favorite news site to check the headlines. But instead of the latest news, you see a message from your cellphone carrier: ‘This site is not available. Please upgrade to our deluxe package to access it.'”
None of this happened, of course.
Instead, in the past year, broadband download speeds rose 35.8 percent and upload speeds are up 22 percent. All without massive fee increases or upgrading to a “deluxe package.”
Net neutrality didn’t usher in the apocalypse. Neither did the tax cut, the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh or dropping from the Paris climate agreement. The sky is still where it’s always been.