Posted on 05/21/2018 7:38:35 PM PDT by Beave Meister
I’d take that bet.
They are dying as it is, with plummeting suscription and advertising numbers, because of the’net.
And the President pounds on them daily, as does the ‘conservative media,’ what there is of it.
All those establishment reporters lump all of this together, and blame Trump for all of it.
They will fight him to the last.
Woodward and Bernstein were stenographers for a disgruntled employee...
"Spies" are an easy construct for citizens to understand... all of us have dealt with two faced liars at some point in our lives... All this has to be washed out in public...
Good point. Unfortunately, most citizens will believe their crap explanation - “we did it to protect Trump.”
There was a time when an argument between two people could be ended with a phrase like, " I read it in the newspaper this morning... I've got the paper around here somewhere..."
That would never happen today. Yes, the press will put out anything democrats tell them to put out, but citizens don't find believable 'their crap explanation' the way they did in the past.
MSM was drivel on newsprint it was drivel on the flickering screen. Yes, the medium will change to flickering screen...you're totally right on that... but that's NOT what killed newspapers.
If you have the Time/Life yearly news books check out the volume that deals with 1964. The civil rights movement - which was a revolution on a similar scale of the Trump revolution - was given TWO pages in that year.
TWO. Two pages....
Then the 'flip' happened ...
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Also twenty years ago the press was blaming their problems on 'the net'... it wasn't true then - might not true now in the way they define it.
Back then 'Drudge' was pulling in hundreds of thousands of 'eyes' on his content. And when liberal papers would put their content on the net they couldn't sell it... couldn't get people to look at it or pay for it...
MSM was drivel on newsprint AND it was drivel on the flickering screen. Yes, the medium will change to flickering screen... or laptop or tablet or smart phone you're totally right on that... but that's NOT what killed newspapers. What killed newspapers what they saw themselves as 'newspapers' and NOT as content distributors. If they had they could have combined the technologies... So, if democrat thugs don't 'get' Trump there will be a flip within two years. I'll put a dollar on it.
As I said, I’ll take the bet.
Loser donates $100 to FR.
But you have to put some kind of reasonable end-date on it.
This coming January, or July 2019, something.
By the way the media stayed with both Clintons far past the bitter end.
They’re STILL in lock-step, if you haven’t noticed.
November 2019
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