Question , what do all these things have in common ? Everybody knows I ' m a motherfuckin monster . <| sep |> Fuck the rags ! <| sep |> I do agree that , for the most part , the press spent too much time on trivial news items . There was a lot of excellent reporting done by many journalists , but for some reason , that didn ' t make it in to the relevant items for enough cycles . They absolutely did a terrible job explaining the absolute importance of proper , just , and intelligent governance over this great country . We saw a lot of false equivalences Clinton ' s email problem , while definitely a valid criticism of her procedures , does not equal the import of Trump not fucking understanding the nuclear weapon procedure and , while I am not sure who specifically producers , editors , media managers , etc . is to blame for that , it did great damage to our Fourth Estate . Now , we have an even bigger problem . The executive branch has more power than ever . Trump will appoint a Supreme Court justice that will not keep him in check , and has a republican congress that seems to be devoid of backbone in standing up to this kleptocrat . We absolutely need the news now more than ever , but their credibility has been undermined to the extent that they are less favorably viewed than Kanye West I made that up , but you get the point . And now comes the counterpoint We really , really , really fucking really , need to support our news . There has been no other time in recent memory that the Fourth Estate will be more important than in the next four years . Pay for subscriptions to NYT , WaPo , and your local papers . Follow real journalists on twitter , where they can be more candid about how they see news items and engage with them . It ' s not the best platform for discourse , I know , but it ' s really all we have . And , for the love of christ , call don ' t email , they often won ' t get the message to the right people your representatives in the House and the Senate regularly and talk to staffers . Your messages will get to the important people if enough of us are active .