Posted on 03/26/2020 5:51:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Just in case you were still laboring under the delusion that CNN and MSNBC are actual “news” organizations, know this: When President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those three glorious words) had to leave his daily Coronavirus Task Force press briefing early yesterday, turning it over to Vice President Mike Pence and doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, the corrupt reporters for CNN and MSNBC also left.
What does that tell you? It tells you that CNN and MSNBC view their sole purpose for covering those events as an effort to cause some controversy involving the President in their neverending efforts to damage him personally. Their corrupt reporters are not there to hear from the experts; they aren’t there to gather real-time information about the China Virus pandemic so that they can convey it to their viewers; they are are there with a single, overarching goal in mind, which is to find a way to damage the President of the United States, who is himself focused on steering a nation of 339 million people through a major crisis.
Think about it: These same two corrupt media outlets went nuts earlier this week when Dr. Fauci was not present for 3 of the updates over a span of 5 days. They ran story after story and convened TV panel after TV panel claiming Fauci was being unfairly excluded from the events because he had disagreed with the President on the potential of hydorxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment.
But Dr. Fauci chastised reporters on Sunday and Monday for attempting to drive a wedge between him and the President, stating that it was “not helpful” and demanding that they stop. Since he did that, these utterly corrupt media outlets suddenly have no interest in hearing from the guy they were portraying as the second coming of Mother Teresa and Albert Einstein not even a week ago.
If he isn’t useful in creating negative “news” about the President, he isn’t useful to them, period.
This pattern is certainly not limited to CNN and MSNBC – they are simply the most blatant about their bias and corruption, parading those traits out there on the air and websites every day like figurative badges of honor. It really applies to all the major networks, newspapers and magazines in the country – even to Fox News, although to a somewhat lesser extent.
We hear a lot of conservative voices complaining about the idiotic behavior of the reporters at these daily updates, but I think that is actually a very good thing for our country. As the New York Post reported yesterday, these events are attracting huge ratings, serving both as substitutes for the massive rallies the President is unable to hold during this crisis and as a window for the public to view the utterly irresponsible and unhinged behavior of the press corps.
From that New York Post article:
President Trump’s daily White House coronavirus briefings are a ratings hit.
The president, who has taken the lead in the task force’s daily updates to the nation, has attracted an average audience of about 8.5 million viewers on cable news — about the number of viewers who watched the season finale of “The Bachelor,” The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing Nielsen numbers.
And as the outbreak continues to surge across the country and more Americans abide by shelter-in-place orders in a number of states, the viewership is increasing.
Monday’s briefing drew 12.2 million people on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, ratings similar to those of “Monday Night Football.”
Fox News has benefited from the briefings, with the cable network attracting 6.2 million viewers on Monday, numbers on par with popular prime-time shows.
The newspaper said millions more are watching on the traditional networks — ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as online — but they offer less reliable numbers than the cable stations because of the way Nielsen ratings are measured.
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So, millions of Americans – especially younger ones – are really getting their first taste of exactly how idiotic and overwrought the White House press corps really is, thanks to these daily briefings. At the same time, they are also getting a big dose of the real Donald Trump, coming to them live on their TV screens without any filter from corrupt and biased talking heads.
The corrupt media organizations began to wake up to this monster they have helped to create last week, when polls showing high public approval for the President’s handling of the crisis began to come out. There is so much concern over this phenomenon now in Democrat/media propaganda land that we have seen a steady drumbeat of op/eds advocating for the TV outlets to actually stop covering the updates live in recent days.
But that’s a big problem: These updates have now become ‘must-see TV’ in tens of millions of homes across America, as people going stir crazy from being shut-in hunger for any news that might give them an idea of when their sheltering-in-place might come to a merciful end.
If the corrupt TV outlets now move to deny them this form of daily entertainment, they face a potential backlash that could be severe. It would be like denying people their daily dose of Wheel of Fortune.
It’s a real conundrum.
The simple reality is this: President Trump has broken the corrupt news media, likely forever. He has now put them in a spot in which they are damned if they do cover these daily updates, and damned if they stop covering them. Given the sorry conduct of these corrupt media outlets over the last four years, that is a very just reward.
That is all.
I don’t know what can be done about Big Media, but something should be. I don’t think the First Amendment exists to protect major corporations which are funded in part by foreign enemies who want to spread propaganda.
At the very least we should invoke anti-monopoly laws and break up the big 6 media companies. The American people are not being well served.
They are just simply going the way of having your milk delivered to you in the morning and other such things of the past. I’m kind of surprised that the 6:30PM newscasts are still on and that people are bothering to watch them. And it is all their making with their arrogance.
Latest poll on twitter (put up by a lib) has Trump at 60 percent approval in handling the virus.
35 percent chose “no human being on the planet could do a worse job” :)
I’m paraphrasing but you get my drift. :)
I think Trump is capped at 60 percent in the generals.
That’s fine with me!
If the most ignorant among us finally see the ugliness of the Democrat media, there may be hope.
Another GREAT one. Thanks for your work.
U.S.S.A. United Socialist States of America lock down citizens, hold rest of republic HOSTAGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcsvE1zv1ek
Socialism Is Legal Plunder and DEATH. WITNESS history and current events.
PROPAGANDISTS are essential.
ENEMIES foreign and domestic.
DB Daily Update is a must read if you can get beyond the two advertisements obscuring his news. He’s been right on for months and a welcome relief against the fake news Dem Media.
People will simply turn to Fox, OAN or live streams on the Internet. The corrupt media lose either way.
Maybe, just ‘maybe’, Americans will finally see what many of us have been telling them for decades: THE MSM PRESS, AS IT IS CONSTITUTED IN TODAY’S WORLD, IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL BE.......................
We know that they are not interested in actual news, but in propaganda. Perhaps their seats, which are very limited, should be given to reporters from other outlets.
Thanks for writing it up.
No matter how the MSM might be boycotted, they’ll always find sufficient funds (scores of millions leftover from black ops slush funds) to employ their “Baghdad Bobs.”
In short, they don’t sink or swim as a result of market forces as more normal businesses that don’t have a clandestine support system.
True enough.
I’ve been saying for years that the News Business does not care about News at all (just propaganda) and they are not an actual Business (they drive away customers and don’t care — they still get their funding from who-knows-where).
I think RICO could be used to good effect on these people. But I agree they would be hard to squash completely because the money is always there.
“The corrupt media organizations began to wake up to this monster they have helped to create last week, when polls showing high public approval for the President’s handling of the crisis began to come out. There is so much concern over this phenomenon now in Democrat/media propaganda land that we have seen a steady drumbeat of op/eds advocating for the TV outlets to actually stop covering the updates live in recent days.”
Related:
Seattle-area NPR station refusing to air WH COVID19 pressers live ‘due to a pattern of false and misleading information’
Then tell those (CNN & MSNBC) reporters their untimely departure and behavior is disruptive,
and as a consequence,..reserve the back row for them, so their questions and presence is also ignored.
High, the angst is, among the Fake News folks...
I think Dr. Deborah Birx has done a phenomenal job. We watched yesterday’s briefing on Fox. She told a story about her grandmother who lived for 88 years with the guilt that it was she who brought home the Spanish Flu from school and it killed her mother. She also said the numbers a lot of so called experts are throwing around are not helpful and are scaring people. She said those levels would only be reachable if we did nothing to mitigate the spread. And we are doing a lot.
News media has and illness with no cure M/F bitchites it’s derived from the stupidest maxims cells.
There are two things which can be done about “the media.” First, prominent Republicans must sue “the media” in direct defiance of the unanimous 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Warren Court decision.At the very least we should invoke anti-monopoly laws and break up the big 6 media companies. The American people are not being well served.Because the Sullivan decision is based on the fatuous - and novel - claim that the First Amendment modifies libel law. In Sullivan, Justice Brennan wrote that
". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”Why was that novel, and why is it wrong? It was novel because - think back to your Founding Era history - the Bill of Rights was demanded by the Antifederalists, and otherwise considered unnecessary by the Federalists. That is, in 1789 the Federalists had a lot bigger fish to fry than modifying libel law. The legitimacy of the whole federal government under the Constitution depended on delivering a bill of rights which assured America that their rights would not be changed under the Constitution. The Bill of Rights was conservative.“The” freedom of the press is guaranteed under 1A, and “the” RKBA is guaranteed under 2A. The idea that anyone owning a press can freely libel any politician makes no more sense than that anyone owning a gun can freely commit armed assault. No court held that 1A modified libel (or pornography) law until the Warren Court did it in 1964. According to Antonin Scalia, George Washington had the right to sue for libel. Scalia allowed the possibly he should not have had that right - but certainly he did have that right.
I like to point out that all major journalists are in continual virtual meetings via the wire services, and that, according to Adam Smith,People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)It is utterly naive to suppose that members of the wire services do not “conspire against the public.”What does the journalism cartel do against the public interest? It identifies journalism’s negative (“if it bleeds, it leads) perspective with the public interest. It claims that journalists are objective, when everyone knows they are negative. Since “negativity is objectivity” is a cynical conceit, the journalism cartel promotes cynicism. But it would be incoherent to be cynical about something and its opposite, and society and government are opposites. Journalists are cynical about society, and naive about government. The cartel makes journalism united, and the Sullivan decision makes journalism too powerful.
The journalism cartel enforces the rule that “objectivity” describes journalism’s socialistic slant. And also the rule that “liberal,” and “progressive” mean the same thing as “objective” except that they are never applied to journalists, whereas “objective” always is.
The justification of the wire services was that they propagated news nationwide while economizing on telegraphy bandwidth. In the Internet age, that is a de minimus consideration.
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