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The media doesn’t realize how destructive they are, the precedents they are allowing to be set. They need to turn around right now and become the watchdogs of government abuse and overreach which this entire charade is, was and continues to be.

It's hard to fathom, that reporters of the left leaning media don't see what's happening. Are they that indoctrinated, or are they worried about losing their job so they go along to be along?. It really comes down to the people at the top, IMO; and thats what we are fighting now after 8 years of Obama, be it govt service or media. I refuse to believe that all underlings at the DOJ, FBI, etc and beat reporters for any of the media are happy with what is happening now. They see it, but can't speak because they are tied to the money they make and can't take a stand.

I think that is partly true. But there is also immense peer pressure inside the newsrooms. We hear about it from time to time, recently the guy from Google who was fired actually defending the policy to hire and train more women... but he did so for the wrong reasons... and just breaking now the small insurrection inside Facebook arguing against ideological hegemony... and CNN had to fire 3 people for breaking all the rules intentionally... they live in an ideological bubble and are very defensive of their views.

Most damning of all imo was the 2016 election coverage where more than just a few journalists came out in favor of Clinton arguing that it was their duty to take a side against Trump. I’ve posted in detail how the entire “Trump is a hateful sexist racist xenophobe” was a manufactured argument repeated by the media because they knew Hillary had such high negative polling that the only way she could win was by making Trump’s negatives go up. It only just barely failed to work and the result is we have half the country completely deranged thinking Trump is an evil man, even though he had been a public figure for 4 decades and was never described in such a fashion. They now use this to justify their conspiracies to smear him, spy on him, derail his agenda and ultimately to try to impeach him.

The media has gone off the rails. In fairness, I will also concede some of it is economic. The media is learning that they have to market themselves to a specific audience. The internet has crushed them. They characterize Fox News as “right wing”, and yet it is very successful, and their answer is to try to attract a different audience by playing to their politics. They tried the same thing with Air America, trying to find a “left wing” audience when they thought AM Radio was a right-wing bastion.