The thing is...politicians have always been crud. You can look at the past of any president, prime minister or other leader in all of history and you'll find all kinds of ugliness that got them there. You'll find bonehead statements, hate fuelled statements, college and marital indiscretions. I suppose that's true of the vast majority of human beings, difference is, most of us don't put my life out there to be scrutinized.
There's a few differences now as far as I see it. We have the internet, which means anyone can say anything, access anything and believe anything 24/7. We have 8976253 news "networks" and ten times that many websites/blogs who can say anything.
We literally live in a society that whoever screams the loudest and sounds potentially the most legitimate wins. News networks don't want to be last to the topic of the minute, so they spew half truths into the world, then retract it later.....except no one ever hears the retraction because we've all moved on to the next minutes topic.
It's a chicken or the egg situation. Does the media vomit "information" because the public demands up to the minute details, or do we demand up to the minute details because the media started vomiting "information"
There's a reason I go completely dead to the internet other than Netflix most evenings.
