Trump has already defeated the news media. And it’s unclear what we can do about it.

The Washington Post's The Plum Line ^ | November 28, 2016 | Paul Waldman

[pax_et_bonum]

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

:-D

[karnage]

What you said.

[dforest]

Trump and all of us know there were most likely millions of fraud votes.

Do any of these media knotheads remember Barack Obama inviting them to vote illegally and that they would suffer no consequences?

[Parmy]

Trump tweeted his ridiculous lie about millions of fraudulent votes

The media wants Trump to prove its not a lie even though they say it is.

Now about the media proving that there isn't any voter fraud when anyone with a scintilla of reason knows that there is. And, they know that it is the Democrats that commit the crime.

[KevinB]

But if we’re going to maintain our democracy, we have to figure out how to deal with the way Trump successfully manipulates destroy the media.

Fixed.

(Oh, and we're a republic not a democracy, genius.)

[onyx]

HaHaHaHaHaHaHa.

Who are we going to believe?

PEOTUS TRUMP or the alt-Left, biased journalists who hate him?

This idiot writer and his colleagues fail to realize they lost their credibility decades ago.

[folkquest]

There’s your answer in the question he poses. A man who accumulates success after success and wins against the press time and again, is likely to have done so as much by luck as by design. You cannot. Fix stupid.

I'm soooo tired of winning! (smiling) :-)

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Wikileaks and the FAKE NEWS SITES helped..heh heh

[Nachoman]

Trump tweeted his ridiculous lie about millions of fraudulent votes on ...

The media advanced the ridiculous lie that Trump is a racist, misogynist homophobe.

[Lakeshark]

I love the sound of winning.......

It makes me smile.

[Fido969]

Gosh, maybe if they told the truth, they’d have more credibility.

[TigersEye]

The United States is not a democracy.

Pat Caddell called it.

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an "enemy of the people" Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: "These people have no honor!" Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

CADDELL ON BENGHAZI: PRESS HAS FAILED THE COUNTRY, FACTS WILL PUT OBAMA IN DEEP TROUBLE May 13, 2014

The MSM are enemies of the people!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(article):" And it’s unclear what we can do about it."

Watch online and write down a list of their advertisers .
Then call the advertisers and tell them you are not interested in their product if they continue to buy time for that news reader.
If it one thing cable news and over the air news programs understand, its advertising revenue
Vote with your dollar !

[ez]

Perhaps if we hadn’t caught you lying and twisting the truth SO MANY TIMES.

[1Old Pro]

Donald Trump is either a mad genius who has cracked the media code in a way no politician before him was able to do, or he’s a kind of political Mr. Magoo, stumbling randomly about yet achieving one success after another. We may never know which it is.

WE KNOW - but the media still doesn't and never will.

[Pajamajan]

I disagree with the title of this.

We have no functioning media/journalists in this country

What he (Trump) defeated is the Stalinist-Soviet-Style propaganda machine of the Marxist democrat party. And what a Herculean task it was, to have defeated them. Bravo! Way to go Donald Trump!

Now hoping we will create an actual MSM, with real journalists, who will dedicate themselves to do what they are supposed to do, as outlined in the Constitution-Pursue the truth, and inform and protect the people.

[Calif Conservative]

Full disclosure - I’m a newspaper reporter, one of the very few conservatives in the field - so to the gist of this — the very nature and the tone of the piece, apparently acceptable for publication in a claimed-to-be-newspaper-of-record, the WaPo, shows why the news media have sown the seeds of their own destruction.

“The Conspiracy Theorist in Chief” “Mr. Magoo” “mad genius” “Trump’s ridiculous lie” (about millions of illegal votes) “outrageous claims” “lunatic radio host” “Trump has assaulted democracy itself” (the most risible of the pejorative ad hominems) “tax cuts for the wealthy” (never mind that they are tax cuts for the middle class and low-income as well LOL) “Trump’s next ludicrous claim” —

I approached the piece with genuine curiosity. Was there truly sinister media manipulation? Or is it Trump bypassing a shopworn, archaic and hostile chattering class?

Soon it became clear the only illumination the article would provide is how unhinged and deranged American journalists are, WEEKS after Nov. 8.

Perhaps the news media is just reaping a long-overdue harvest, it’s getting its just desserts.

If the media are being ignored by a furious 50 percent or more of the USA, or if they are being outflanked by a president-elect as clever as President Reagan — isn’t that because the media brought it upon themselves?

“The fault, dear media is not in our stars, but in ourselves”

Because the news media long ago forgot its true role that the Founding Fathers intended for it as an important component of the American Experiment. The Founders imagined that the media would never become monolithic and never adhere only to one political view. They erred in that belief but at least left in place the mechanism to overcome media bias: “The best antidote to bad speech is more speech.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

Paul Waldman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Waldman

[papertyger]

Trump has already defeated the news media. And it’s unclear what we can do about it.

Start with "your job."

[papertyger]

As the news media has become more female in composition, so it has become more female in orientation. Thus, it’s no wonder that as the inherent flaw of men is aggression, the inherent flaw that flowered in news media is vanity.