Posted on 01/01/2017 10:12:24 AM PST by Kaslin
As New Year’s Eve revelers prepared to welcome in 2017, President-elect Donald J. Trump issued this instant classic on Twitter: “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!”
This predictably sent mainstream media types sputtering in fits of apoplexy presaging a New Year’s hangover they are unlikely to shake in the near future, obsessed as they are with discrediting Donald J. Trump as the elected leader of the Free World. They appear oblivious that Trump’s presidency will—for many of them—likely be the linear equivalent of New York City’s famed Carnegie Deli closing its doors for the final time as the curtain went down on 2016.
For journalism in the Trump era, “Winter is coming” warns Jay Rosen of New York University. Rosen issued a thoughtful-if-myopic, two-part call to arms on Prospects for the American Press Under Trump (www.PressThink.org) and he observes: “Like it or not, the press….is currently in the fight of its life against forces that want to bring it down.” Rounding up the usual suspects, Rosen sees “an organized movement to discredit mainstream journalism stretching from Steve Bannon in the White House to Trump’s army of online trolls.” For good measure, he also tosses in Talk Radio and FOX News into the peasants with pitchforks menacing traditional media outlets.
The only thing Rosen omits—and possibly the most important item which AP, MSNBC, Voice of America and other “journalists” might actually need--is a mirror. That’s where they will find the real source of public discontent—and distrust—of American media. It will clearly reflect the images of those who proselytized on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s aimless, focus-grouped campaign for nearly two years…ignoring DNC bias against Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries and promoting 24/7 polls predicting a Clinton landslide on November 8th.
As Vice President of News for the Salem Radio Network—which serves over 1,700 radio stations nationwide—one of my primary missions is to insure that listeners cannot tell—by listening to our broadcasts—the political leanings of any of the men and women who serve as our anchors and correspondents. (That is not to imply a lack of political diversity in, say, our Washington, D.C. news bureau…but rather our obligation to keep those inherent human biases out of our on-air product.) Compare this with the hangdog, glum faces on all the major TV networks about 2AM Eastern time on November 9th as Pennsylvania was called for Donald Trump. Most of the on-camera visages looked as if they were auditioning for the role of undertaker Johnny Degnan in John Ford’s political film “The Last Hurrah.” For many of them, it really was.
You know, there’s nothing like good old-fashioned hip replacement surgery to slow a person down and get some eye-level perspective on what the general public experiences via mainstream media. For the past two weeks of primarily bedrest between rehab exercises, I have watched more cable TV news than the average American consumes in a month. And in the process, I’ve actually subtracted from the sum total of my working knowledge about breaking news, the Trump transition, the U.N.’s outrageous anti-Israel vote and other events.
The pathetic and biased “coverage” offered by TV networks—and their acolytes in print—makes it all the more encouraging that incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer this week observed to my colleague Hugh Hewitt that Talk Radio will be high on his radar in the new year: “Talk radio has been an important part of the conservative base for a long time. And one of the things that’s important, and one of the things that the mainstream media missed is when talk radio really started to rise in the early 90s, it gave ideas and outlets, and frankly people a place to go that they could have an adult conversation, an adult debate, about substantive issues. And we recognize that, and we will continue to utilize it as a very powerful medium.”
If NYU’s Jay Rosen is right, Winter is definitely—and deservedly—coming for the once-powerful mainstream media. But for talk radio…it’s Morning in America once again.
We need to kill these COMMIE bastards for good....do not let up one bit!
MSM for 2016..... “Catastrophic Failure”!
There is no Recovery for these Clowns, and .... “they did it to themselves.”
Nobody in their right mind will ever listen to MSM again, unless they just need a good laugher!
Stick a Fork in the MSM.
GO TRUMP GO!!
I hate these unnecessary excerpts
The Uni-party Establishment and Media (but I repeat myself) have done more to discredit themselves than all other forces combined...
Ohhhh the sound of liberal progressive heads popping in rage over this New Year message from Donald Trump, sounds so sweet waking up this morning! I love it! Love to see & hear the liberals sputtering & fuming! Especially odumboshiite, phat azz moooochelle & Hillary!
You should have given Mark Levin at least an “Honorable Mention” on your otherwise nice summary of Talk Show Trump Bashers. I was a pretty steady listener to the one day old podcasts of his show for a long time. No longer even a check-in for me these days.
You’re right. Mark Levin was however finally on board for Trump despite his early misgivings. Dennis Prager was always on board for Trump, as was Larry Elder. Merci.
Check out the link within the article, they are still clueless.
The author calls everyone but the media idiots because we have discovered their agenda.
Going to be a long cold winter for the MSM.
The White House has a Facebook page. It can post press releases and videos. Trump can tweet. The press has no leverage at all anymore, and Trump will pound that into their brains.
Our local paper, The Asbury Park Press, ran a rather pathetic little promo over the stacks of papers on sale at the supermarket “Miss us?” or words to that effect.
I thought, I would almost feel sorry for you, but you’ve made me hate you so much. I love reading, and newspapers, and magazines, but one by one I just stopped reading them.
What will the Left think when they finally realize they destroyed themselves over their slavish devotion to abortion and sexual perversion?
President Trump needs to be careful of many talk radio personalities. KFYI talk radio in Phoenix has been anti-Trump for over a year. They go so far as to call their own audience haters. At the KFYI Election Night Watch Party at the Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale when the networks announced that Hillary called Trump to concede the talk-jock hosts Mike Broomhead and Chris Merrill managed to look pissed-off, ill, and constipated at the same time. They immediately and packed up and slunk out while attendees lightheartedly jeered them on the way out. Those two bastards refused to call Trump the winner even after several major news networks had already done so.
“Mark Levin was however finally on board for Trump...”
Like me and many others who were not so dumb as to think you could be against Trump and against Hillary at the same time.
That being said, as reluctantly as I supported Trump, watching him win was WONDERFUL.
It was very, very important that Hillary lost and Trump got that done. And for that I will always be grateful no matter what the future may bring.
If it brings more humiliation for the Left and the MSM that will be awesome.
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