Posted on 03/27/2016 8:30:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
THOSE of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on the Republican Party’s toxic manipulation of racial resentments over the years. But we should also acknowledge another force that empowered Trump: Us.
I polled a number of journalists and scholars, and there was a broad (though not universal) view that we in the media screwed up. Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both.
“Trump is not just an instant ratings/circulation/clicks gold mine; he’s the motherlode,” Ann Curry, the former “Today” anchor, told me. “He stepped on to the presidential campaign stage precisely at a moment when the media is struggling against deep insecurities about its financial future. The truth is, the media has needed Trump like a crack addict needs a hit.”
Curry says she’s embarrassed by the unfairness to other Republican candidates, who didn’t get nearly the same airtime.
An analysis by The Times found that we in the news media gave Trump $1.9 billion in free publicity in this presidential cycle. That’s 190 times as much as he paid for in advertising, and it’s far more than any other candidate received. As my colleague Jim Rutenberg put it, some complain that “CNN has handed its schedule over to Mr. Trump,” and CNN had lots of company.
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Yes, how the lowlifes are so afraid of Trump.
Pure BS, the news media has hurt the American people for 50 + years with thier lies but we the people are on to those lies.
It’s time for some bigtime payback and I don’t mean violence.
It’s our turn to finally elect who WE want not who they say is the best choice!
What a crock!
They trashed the man for nine months, and now claim they made him. Horse stuff!
He made him, with no help from them.
Almost all the coverage he got was designed to destroy him.
They created him? LMAO
So he gets no credit at all. LIARS!
Trump has been #1 from the moment he attacked illegal immigration in his announcement speech.
Nothing anyone has said or done has effected that fact.
The media is responsible for the toxic manipulation of anti-white racial resentments for decades.
This entire article is an indictment of the smug self-believing king makers who populate the media. It should be read with contempt.
Good God I despise these people.
Exactly.
"The media failed the country.......We were lap dogs, not watchdogs.".....
Nothing new about that, either.
He started out playing the race card. Far as I got.
Caca.
Curry says she’s embarrassed by the unfairness to other Republican candidates, who didn’t get nearly the same airtime.
LOL. Trump has been getting nuked 24/7 since the Tapper KKK ambush. Yet they count that as favorable “air time”? Ridiculous.
right, the Democrat party never manipulates racial resentments. or class resentments. Or gender resentments. or religious resentments.
This tool said two days back Belgium’s chief issue is climate change. Loopy.
you hit the nail on the head.
and they make it sound like we’re mindless folk who were tricked into a racial bias frenzy.
No.
We don’t want illegals here because it is ILLEGAL. and costing us a fortune.
No one was thrilled when the Russians started coming en masse to Brooklyn and getting on assistance right away.
it’s not the race or the color, it’s the law.
but the media can’t sell that because there’s no hate involved.
No, your first big failing was handing a stupid, arrogant community organizer the steering wheel to the country without fact-checking his background, because you liked the ratings from "making history".
Understanding the manipulative nature of the LMSM has not made selecting the best candidate for POTUS any easier.
Like Hell it did.
F# the MSM. It’s the Country’s greatest threat.
trump made Trump.The media scumbags had nothing to do with it.They were just along for the ride.Thats why they can’t take him down no matter how hard they try..cause they did not make him
Trump’s whole thing is media, and media self-promotion is really the only thing he’s adept at doing, so he knew exactly how to do it. The rules are:
1. There’s no such thing as bad publicity; and
2. You can’t underestimate the US public. The lower you go, the more everybody loves it. Sad but true.
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