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The Trump Nail in the Media Coffin (VDH)
RCP ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/22/2016 5:41:35 AM PST by RoosterRedux

President-elect Donald Trump probably will not often communicate with the nation via traditional press conferences. Nor will Trump likely field many questions from New York/Washington journalists.

What we know as "the media" never imagined a Trump victory. It has become unhinged at the reality of a Trump presidency.

No wonder the fading establishment media is now distrusted by a majority of the public, according to Gallup -- and becoming irrelevant even among progressives.

Once upon a time in the 1960s, all the iconic news anchors, from Walter Cronkite to David Brinkley, were liberal. But they at least hid their inherent biases behind a professional veneer that allowed them to filter stories through left-wing lenses without much pushback.

When Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the 1968 Tet Offensive and declared the war stalemated and unwinnable, no one dared to offer the dissenting viewpoint that Tet was actually a decisive American victory.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


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KEYWORDS: media; msm; nytimes; trump; vdh; victordavishanson; washingtonpost
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To: BBB333

Well what is true is the total media monopoly is gone. Unfortunately most public facing entities are dominated by the left and they are doubling down. Ad agencies, Hollywood, universities, most news outlets are all tools of the left. If just one of the 3 major networks could be turned think what that would do. But it seems like there is impenetrable wall to stop this.So Trump will have to go around them. If Reagan did it MAYBE Trump can.


21 posted on 12/22/2016 6:11:48 AM PST by gibsonguy
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22 posted on 12/22/2016 6:19:42 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: marktwain

It was (hopefully past tense) a period of corruption, whatever it’s called.


23 posted on 12/22/2016 6:20:32 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: refermech

Quote:

“Hope the media dies a slow and painful death.”

Amen.

The Media’s questions to Trump yesterday were all about “offending Muslims” and no concern whatsoever about the victim’s of the Christmas market “truck attack” in Berlin.

The corporate Media are a nothing more than a criminal fifth column intent on destroying our American republic.


24 posted on 12/22/2016 6:23:50 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Eddie01
I know, right!

JUST KEEP REPEATING IT! Every time you hear a national news story, especially one where you can spot the spin, say “WHO LISTENS TO THEM ANY MORE”

Make the person feel stupid for believing the main stream media.

There is one moron here who actually fed me a story from the MSM about Gingrich saying that Trump has gone back on his promise to “drain the swamp”. When that is clearly NOT what Gingrich was saying, but what the reporter was feeding him TRYING TO GET HIM to say that.

25 posted on 12/22/2016 6:24:06 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: RoosterRedux

With Twitter and Facebook, among other so-called ‘social media’, Trump can address the American people directly, without any WaPo?NYT/LAT spin or Dinosaur Media bias thrown on it.

Reagan was called “The Great Communicator”, Trump may well be called “The Direct Communicator”..................


26 posted on 12/22/2016 6:25:10 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: Eddie01

What we need is a network that will ‘Call Out’ the other networks on their lies and half-truths IOW, Name names................


27 posted on 12/22/2016 6:27:11 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: gibsonguy
Trump will have to go around them. If Reagan did it MAYBE Trump can.

Maybe? Where have you been for the last yaer and a half?

28 posted on 12/22/2016 6:27:44 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: BBB333

I trust the Enquirer too


29 posted on 12/22/2016 6:28:57 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: RoosterRedux

Everyone knows that the media spins everything pro-liberal, anti-conservative - they are like the King with no clothes and refuse to admit it.

Trump will go around them, it’s really the only way to go.


30 posted on 12/22/2016 6:29:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: RoosterRedux

I guess it would be a good time to take back the NW Corner of the White House Lawn. It’s an ugly array of communications equipment for the press for outside news casts. Until the press learns some integrity they shouldn’t have permanent location at the WH.


31 posted on 12/22/2016 6:39:44 AM PST by PJBankard
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To: RoosterRedux

My grandpa used to call cronkite, Red Walter.


32 posted on 12/22/2016 6:51:25 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: The Toll
ever take a glance at Nickelodeon?

No, never. For the same reason I wasn't sent to public school. Or fed from a dumpster.

33 posted on 12/22/2016 6:53:00 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: RoosterRedux

Both the Democrat Party and their Media lock-steppers have commited self-inflicted destruction upon themselves!!! End of story!!!


34 posted on 12/22/2016 7:09:05 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

The so called “Fake News” meme being thrown at Fox and the internet is the MSM’s attempt to shove the genie back in the bottle.

They don’t realize that, in effect, what they are saying is:

“Don’t believe their lies, believe ours.”


35 posted on 12/22/2016 7:17:53 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: RoosterRedux
gravelly-voiced populist counterparts on commercial radio and cable news.

lol. Alex Jones.

36 posted on 12/22/2016 7:22:33 AM PST by Fido969
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To: RoosterRedux

BKMK for later


37 posted on 12/22/2016 7:26:22 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: refermech

I would prefer a QUICK AND DECISIVE EXECUTION.


38 posted on 12/22/2016 7:55:58 AM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks for setting the record straight with the truth.


39 posted on 12/22/2016 7:59:38 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: RoosterRedux
From the article:

Journalists such as Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times and Christiane Amanpour of CNN said that they could not -- and should not -- be neutral reporters, given their low opinion of Trump.

Game on. They live by this sword, they die by it, too.

40 posted on 12/22/2016 7:59:44 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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