Journalists and their sociopolitical opinions on Twitter

Oh, and I mostly don't have a rooting interest - right or left, up or down - about journalists' social media political adventures.

 

We know he lies. The lies are no longer news, sadly enough.

To me the role is like Stat Boy - I don't like it. That's one guy's opinion.

 

Yeah, I didn’t say they weren’t doing what they were supposed to do. I am saying they probably won’t be doing it very much for Joe Biden.

 

Is Joe Biden a racist who lies north of 12 times per day? No.

 

Is your wife's mom not on socialized medicine this minute?

Methinks if your wife's mom is bloviating about this, the other 75 years might not have been that much to write home about anyways.

 

I didn't say he was. I'm also guessing Ol Joe won't be presidenting on Twitter like the current guy.

 

I’m not on Twitter, so ... none of the above? Can that be my choice?

 

But ..... but. ..... they're libruhls !! That's what matters!

 

That's the thing - outside of specific causes like gay rights, police brutality, or school shootings, most sports journalists didn't start really chiming in on politics until Trump came along.

Not only is he addicted to Twitter, but there isn't a day that goes by without him saying something stupid, controversial, or blatantly wrong. No matter what you thought of Obama, he went days without making major headlines, or at least it'd be something you could just include on a national roundup on A6 or something. Bush was largely before the social media explosion, but he was the same way before 9/11 and in the latter year or two of his presidency after the wars began to take a backseat.

Trump's behavior is A1 material every day and it's exhausting. So people are reacting stronger to it. If we have a more traditional president, I guarantee sports writers will back off the politics on Twitter.

 

Yeah.

The assertion that Trump is just like every other politician - "they all lie" - and thus should be covered like one is absurd.