Posted on 02/17/2017 3:04:01 AM PST by onyx
It’s always the people inside a bubble who think they’re the ones with an outsider’s perspective on things. The mainstream media fits this profile perfectly. The big name press continue to deny there is anything wrong with the way they do things, or the things they choose to do. NBC’s Chuck Todd, for example, is happy to blame Donald Trump for his profession’s problems and abdicate any responsibility. They all are.
Todd sent out this tweet when President Trump was going after the media during his press conference on Thursday:
This not a laughing matter. I'm sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican
— Chuck Todd @Chuck Todd February 16, 2017
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The lack of self-awareness here is stunning. Gallup has a poll out about the press that asks:
In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media – such as newspapers, TV, and radio — when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly — a great deal, a fair amount or none at all?
The current numbers for “great deal/fair amount” currently sit at 32%. In 1976 it was 72%. From 1997 through 2003 it was in the mid 50’s. But since 2007, the numbers have been below a majority each year, and it just keeps getting worse.
This is what Chuck Todd and others like him fail to accept or comprehend: The mainstream media have delegitimized themselves. Republicans and independents watched for eight long years as Todd and others of his ilk did their best to help and support the last administration; not only refusing to hold President Obama to account (the way they are imploring each other to do with Trump) but providing cover for him. The media framed Obama as the reasonable one while Republicans were just “intransigent” jerks who didn’t want Obama to succeed. They packaged and delivered his preferred message every night and all day on the cable channels.
As for Trump, for all of their bellyaching over his habitually manhandling them or his refusal to call on them during press conferences, they utterly fail to consider that may they shouldn’t have tried to game the system to force Trump on Republicans because they thought it would help Hillary.
During the GOP primary people like Chuck Todd were happy to allow Trump to call into Sunday talk shows. They’d cover his rallies, ofte in their entirety, happily showing Trump’s plane landing at whatever designated spot he was going to speak. The figure given is Trump was given about $2 billion in free advertising. Billion, with a B. It was only when Trump got the nomination that the media realized, “Oh crap. Look what we’ve done!” Suddenly, speaking truth to power was important, again. The press called upon each other to be diligent with the Trump administration.
Journalism is back! If rusty.
And back from what, exactly?
Why would the media have to come back? Making the statement is an admission of guilt they’ve been doing it wrong (and they still are). It’s true. And they know it. But they’re standing there with their hands over their ears, screaming, “LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!” pretending as though it hasn’t happened.
People like Todd have become so convinced of their importance; they forget what is they’re supposed to do. Reporters and news anchors have the duty to report the news. They need to gather the info, check facts, ask questions and then provide the information to the public who digest and make decisions based upon what they have seen or read.
Chuck Todd’s tweet is indicative of the condition he and other journalists suffer. They are no longer content to report. They believe it is their mission to tell people what to think.
Chuck Todd is not the arbiter of what is or what is not, un-American. That’s not for him to decide but he apparently thinks otherwise. He followed up that with another:___________________________________________________
Press bashing may feel good to folks but when it's done by people in power, it's corrosive. Take off your partisan hats for a second
— Chuck Todd @Chuck Todd February 16, 2017
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See? Again, Todd is telling people what to think. This is not his role. He has not been appointed by anybody to make these calls, but this is how journalists behave. I wrote yesterday about members of the mainstream press, unable to withhold their contempt for Katie Pavlich and Townhall as well as the Christian Broadcasting Network. Donald Trump had the audacity to pick those people over “real” journalists.
As long as Chuck Todd, Katy Tur, Glenn Thrush, and others continue to behave not as reporters, but self-appointed seers of the political world who have final authority on who asks questions and what is “un-American” then they can continue to go down with the ship in a sea of sunken ratings.
Loathe these global Communists!
As opposed to delegitimising a Republican president, which is as American as apple pie.
This must be looked at as voter fraud.
Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes
Days Before Hillary’s announcement of her candidacy
Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers
ITEM..... Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.
ITEM-—The guest list for an earlier event at the home of John Podesta was limited to reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. —snip—
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ITEM-—Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013.
So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.
ITEM——I hope talk hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, Seth Myers, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien have their lawyers on retainer and speed dial.
....because if the Trump Administration uncovers that the DNC and the Clintons were directly working with any member of media and their writing staff during the 2016 Presidential election, they could be charged with violating Federal election laws.
Sorry Chuck - a rabidly partisan and lying media is what’s un-American....
delegitimizing the press is Un-American, but delegitimizing a President is OK, because that is what Todd and his ilk are attempting.
This not a laughing matter. I'm sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican sorry chuckie but you ARE a laughing matter, laughing stock is more like it
Press bashing may feel good to folks but when it's done by people in power, it's corrosive. Take off your partisan hats for a second
said the presstitute in it's partisan hat...
The press has delegitimized themselves.
Using the power of those leftist corporations to undermine the legitimacy of the newly elected President of the United States, that's unAmerican!
Delegitimizing the press is WINNING.
Change your diaper FChuck.
The actions of the press are de-legitimizing the press.
All self-inflicted Chuckster...you people are worse than a shyster lawyer.
Hey Chuck and the rest of you liars in the press, if you want to be trusted more, respected more, you have to show yourselves to be WORTHY of being trusted each and every time you print or speak your news. Stop printing and speaking just pieces of truth or fabrications just to rush your story out quicker. List actual people not just “source” says...
Simple as that.
It’s that way for the rest of us in civilization too, you are no different just because you have a press badge or title.
The most likely answer, at least if I'm betting on it, is "yeah, so what?"
Chuck Todd:
Ask yourself how impartial Georgie Stephanopolous can possibly be when he spent his formative years in the Clinton White House???
Little Georgie almost melted down on Nov 8- when the results showed his precious Shrillary was NOT going to be the President. Other ‘journalists’ also were behaving poorly—and CERTAINLY NOT being professional what night, but Georgie must have thought he was going to be back in the White House.
While every network & paid shill in those networks proudly claims over & over & OVER again how NOT BIASED they are in all of their news coverage, that was all shot in the ass on the night of Nov 8, 2016.
The MSM in America is biased, and they know it. Telling that ‘I am unbiased” lie 24/7/365 gets it well planted into their life.
Damn few of real American believe anything they tell us anymore. It is a game of trying to find the almond in the Christmas pudding. In the last 8 ++ years, haven’t found very many almonds.
IMO, the media is in a ‘circular firing squad’ mode & I will gladly watch them kill each other off.
Seems the time is ripe for a CONSERVATIVE network.
Well, at least by me. Seditious bastiges.
Arrogant clod.
Love that photo!
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