One of the biggest disappointments of this entire election
season, although something not totally unexpected, was how we were made to
witness that which can only be described as the complete unraveling and final
demise of what was once referred to as being our mainstream media. As the days pass and the smoke continues to
clear a bit after the shocking events of November 8th, it’s difficult to come
to grips with the magnitude of their collapse. While it’s true that their
demise has been many years in the making, it doesn’t make what we just
witnessed any less stunning.
Some in the ‘press’, those who have managed to get
beyond their grief, have shown a bit of introspection, after they came to the
realization that their political campaign was over and they had lost. But sadly, the soul-searching itself is just part
of the script. The “we live in a liberal
bubble” explanation worked for a while, but it is wholly inadequate to explain
2016. And while I hesitate to say it, because
they still do wield a certain amount of power, it is for all intents and
purposes, that which we once called the mainstream media can now be declared,
and officially so, quite dead.
And I guess ‘if’ there is anything that can be
described as being sad about what it that has occurred here, as it relates to
media, it’s that they were essentially killed by their own hand. In other words, they are dead because they
can no longer be trusted when it comes to anything they say. In 2016, we discovered, and beyond the shadow
of any doubt, that those in the mainstream media will not hesitate in the least
when it comes to colluding with the Democrat Party in an effort to advance the
careers of liberal politicians. And we
now know that they colluded to elect Hitlery.
And this goes far beyond merely siding with liberal
policies or demanding in your official ‘media manual’ that pro-lifers be called
“anti-abortion.” That’s plain old
liberal bias, and we’re all accustomed to dealing with it. However, this goes well beyond that. The “liberal bubble” was Bernard Goldberg’s
thesis in his best-selling book Bias, and it made a lot of sense then. But it turns out, that explanation falls way
short. But while the bubble is real, and
it helps explain many aspects of what ails newsrooms all over the country, it
nowhere near tells the whole story.
The mainstream media, aka the state-controlled
media, provided both cover for and ammunition to the Democrat Party, while
hiding behind the misappropriated title of “journalists.” And they were very open about it, acting as
if they no longer cared whether we recognized their biases or not. But you can’t call yourself “the press” when
you give the questions for a presidential debate to one of the candidates. And you can’t pretend impartiality when you
are coordinating with the Democrat National Committee on the questions you need
to ask of their opponents.
Today’s press ignores or holds on to information and
chooses to release it when it feels that the time is right for maximum
political impact. And the after-election
freakout continues in much the same way.
The Clinton News Network’s (CNN) coverage of the anti-Trump protests
included a protestor using the “Hillary got more votes” talking point of the
left that got a lot of play on social media.
And while the claim is true, there’s never any mention that all of those
votes came from California. Remove that
state from the equation and the vote totals are very different.
We need to accept the fact that those in the media
are not going to change. You can forget
about that. Because nothing has really changed. The same Democrat operatives who worked the
newsrooms before the election, continue their work today. They’ll just have to try harder next time, be
subtler or simply work harder at not getting caught. After all they did almost win. We just have to adapt to this new “pressless”
world. Sure, there are some good
reporters who try to do a good job, but it’s so hard to decipher it all. It’s
fair to say most people will not go to the trouble.
Let’s face it, the media is dead. And it’ll take a miracle to resurrect it. And it was in a year known mostly for mayhem,
misfortune, and madness, that America’s media quickly proved themselves to be
unfit for narrating this first draft of history. All too often, when the news
got tough, the news got weird. And while
picking 10 of the most egregious examples was no easy task, we’ve whittled
thousands of examples down to the ten examples that we think represent 2016 in
a nutshell. So without further ado, here are the media’s 10 most mortifying
moments of 2016:
10. After Donald Trump’s underdog victory, many in
the media looked for scapegoats. But Comedy Central’s Samantha Bee went the
furthest — blaming white people for “ruining” America.
9. Hitlery notoriously avoided direct questions from
the press all year. So when Lester Holt became one of the few to somehow score
a sit down with her, his softballs-only interview was journalistically
humiliating.
8. Cuba’s longtime dictator expired this year, and
many in America’s media actually mourned.
7. And perhaps while not historically significant, a
particularly comical case of media malpractice came when an enchanted Andrea
Mitchell breathlessly recapped the “magical” evening she was having at a Hitlery
rally.
6. Over on taxpayer funded PBS, David Brooks and
David Corn somehow connected the dots between Ted Cruz and Satan. Go figure!
5. After the devastating mass slaughter in Orlando,
the media embraced its unfortunate habit of speculating where things went wrong
— looking everywhere, it seemed, besides Islamic terrorism.
4. After another tragedy — this time an alligator
snatching a toddler from a Disney World beachfront — CNN’s Brooke Baldwin
thankfully had the presence of mind to ask a local animal expert … what the
alligator was thinking.
3. On MSNBC, the now-canceled Melissa Harris Perry
worried that Flint, Mich., might become Barry “Almighty’s”… Fugitive Slave Act?
2. After Orlando, many progressive congressmen
staged a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives. The media, you be
unsurprised to discover, went absolutely bananas with delight.
1. If there was one thing the media was absolutely
sure of in 2016, it was … Hitlery’s inevitable landslide victory. Whoops.
I think we can all agree that the ‘media’ is
composed of little more than Snowflakes who believe themselves to be 'journalists'. They are entitled people motivated by a sense
of superiority and condescension. They
were brainwashed in their colleges to think 'progressively", meaning, they
believe whatever the professors say. They
see themselves as being born to inform and guide the masses. And while they honestly hate ‘hate’, they are,
at the same time, free to hate, because hate is deserved. The best you can do with this people is to
ignore them, or simply make fun of them.
The corrupt ‘Left’ as well as well as those in the
state-controlled media remain in full denial when it comes to this election.
They still can't believe Americans didn't want a crooked, criminal leftwing nut
of a "woman" to be their President. And so it goes. The real story
about this election is that people feared that Hitlery would continue with the
highly destructive socialist policies of Barry. That's why the Democrats lost. You can say
anything you like about Trump, but he is far superior to this corrupt, old
school politician. It’s always good for the country when crooked loses.
So the mainstreamers will now have a choice to make,
either do the job a journalist is supposed, and expected, to do, that being, tell
the truth and let others decide on their own or continue to toe the Democrat
Party line or, continue to lie, cheat, and obscure the real truth. The media has a responsibility to the people
and to the Republic and if they continue to ignore that responsibility, they willingly
forfeit any credibility they desire in return.
And if what we have seen taking place since the election, it would appear
that the choice has already been made.
Eventually they will go out of business. I never
watch CNN and rarely even watch Fox. Eventually people will simply stop
watching and whoever is funding them will tire of burning up money. What I
worry more about, and this includes newspapers as well, is who is doing the
real, and still very much needed, investigative reporting? Wikileaks helped expose Hitlery, the media
bias, Clinton money laundering, etc. But
hacking private emails is not hardnosed journalism. We badly need real
investigating and reporting to keep politicians honest. We have lost that and we
need it back, soon.
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