Posted on 07/21/2017 9:16:32 AM PDT by Lorianne
The newspaper industry as a whole has been dying slowly for years, as the pathetic tale of the once-mighty Chicago Tribune reminds us. But for the handful of well funded journalistic enterprises that survive, the Trump era is turning out to be a “golden age” – a time of high purpose and moral vindication.
The people of the respectable east coast press loathe the president with an amazing unanimity. They are obsessed with documenting his bad taste, with finding faults in his stupid tweets, with nailing him and his associates for this Russian scandal and that one. They outwit the simple-minded billionaire. They find the devastating scoops. The op-ed pages come to resemble Democratic fundraising pitches. The news sections are all Trump all the time. They have gone ballistic so many times the public now yawns when it sees their rockets lifting off.
The news media’s alarms about Trump have been shrieking at high C for more than a year. It was in January of 2016 that the Huffington Post began appending a denunciation of Trump as a “serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, birther and bully” to every single story about the man. It was last August that the New York Times published an essay approving of the profession’s collective understanding of Trump as a political mutation – an unacceptable deviation from the two-party norm – that journalists must cleanse from the political mainstream.
It hasn’t worked. They correct and denounce; they cluck and deride and Trump seems to bask in it. He reflects this incredible outpouring of disapprobation right back at the press itself. The old “liberal bias” critique, a minor deity in the pantheon of Republican paranoia since the days of Trump’s hero Richard Nixon, has been elevated to first place. Trump and company now use it to explain everything. And the news media’s reputation sinks lower and lower as they advance into their golden age.
But at least now it is apparent that what we’ve been saying for nearly 30 years is true.
CNN was called the “Clinton News Network” way before HilLIARy was running, it was named that when BILL was president.
“The people of the respectable east coast press loathe the president with an amazing unanimity.”
Here’s the money comment. Respectable is not a word that should be used anywhere near “east coast press.”
I have read that in most wars, the greatest number of casualties occur after the outcome is no longer in doubt, but before the defeated party accepts surrender.
Perhaps failing media are the same
Market economics, pure and simple. It’s more important to carve out a loyal niche than it is to try to appeal to the entire population and not offend any of it’s constituent demographics, and since all of your competition has specialized in their particular niche, as a matter of economic survival, you need to cultivate your own and beat out those are working that same niche.
In other words, everyone in the media is “radicalizing” toward their specific niche audience.
We were calling it that in 1997 here on FR.
The partisan democrats will probably fail but anyway Trump must fire Mueller for partisan bias and appoint Rudy Giuliani as special cousel. Americans trust Rudy to do right.
If there is no crime Rudy would disband the office.
The writer almost gets it. But not quite.
...why can’t “it” see that
“it” like the monster they are. LOL
You may be underestimating the stupidity of nearly half of American voters, or those who couldn’t care any less about the future of Our Beloved Country. (gibsmedats)
Not so fast. Do not underestimate the enemy. The media has slowed down the Trump administration. It has spooked moderate Republicans. The media doesn’t need to destroy Trump to hurt us. And it will never stop attacking Trump.
the guardian laments that the enemedia is going about the necessary destruction of trump in the wrong way, the irony being that all of the things that they lament are the wrong methods are perfectly embodied in their own article.
You neglected to indicate this is an excerpt. Lots more at the link.
I just saw it as a piece to slam Trump and regurgitate every hateful diatribe the left has produced.
“Not so fast. Do not underestimate the enemy. The media has slowed down the Trump administration. It has spooked moderate Republicans. The media doesn’t need to destroy Trump to hurt us. And it will never stop attacking Trump.”
Absolutely correct. It has slowed things to a crawl.
Wasn’t there a story years ago about a boy who cried wolf too many times?
“as a matter of economic survival, you need to cultivate your own and beat out those are working that same niche”
I agree. Furthermore this is something that the media cannot talk about.
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