Let’s Celebrate the Death of the Mainstream Media! (extremely satisfying read alert)

Picking on the mainstream media is easier than offending radical feminists, and almost as much fun, but just because it’s barely a challenge doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. We should. We must.

All decent, patriotic Americans yearn for the day when the effects of emerging technologies combine with the mainstream media’s insufferable progressive cheerleading to finally destroy it. Its death throes are underway, but it won’t buy the farm overnight. The body of the mainstream media is still shambling along, wreaking havoc, long after it its brain has died. So we need to put down the mainstream media like we would any other mindless zombie.

If we made a show about it, we could call it The Lying, Lame, Liberal-Licking Dead.

Remember, they hate us. Hate us. They don’t merely not care about us. They don’t simply misunderstand us. They hate what we think. They hate how we live. They hate what we believe. They hate us.

the mainstream media is going to die. And which is why we conservatives will recycle our celebratory champagne on its grave.

I cannot agree.
First, I don’t agree with the moniker, “mainstream media.” What we are really talking about is wire service journalism. And if that is what we are talking about, we can never actually defeat it if we dare not speak its name.
Second, “media” is a plural noun; the problem we face in the case of wire service journalism is precisely the fact that it is singular. Wire service journalism is a unified entity, which consists primarily of the Associated Press and its members, but also includes all other wire services.
All journalists (think, “critics”) have the motive to denigrate Republicans (think, “the man in the arena”) and reject absolutely the idea that “it is not the critic who counts.” It is that motive which causes journalists to identify with the Elizabeth Warren formulation, “you didn’t build that” - which is a cynical rejection of the very possibility of excellence “in the arena.” Because private property is society’s way of codifying your accomplishments “in the arena” of working, saving, investing, and otherwise "building that.”
“The mainstream media” is on its back foot because of the bandwidth technologies which have enabled the internet revolution; the fact that everyone with broadband has more bandwidth available to him/her self than the Associated Press had in 1900 (and probably much later than that). But the thing to worry about is threats to the First Amendment. Wire service journalists, assuming as they do that they are priests of a cult of “objectivity,” actually reject the idea that you and I have a right to be posting our opinions on an Internet site. They have been doing the equivalent for the entirety of their careers, without possessing any superior wisdom, morality, ethics, or objectivity.
To believe in your own objectivity is to believe that you don’t have any personal motives of your own. Anyone who believes that is the furthest thing from being objective, and cannot even seriously try to be objective.

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