Posted on 12/23/2016 3:10:07 AM PST by expat_panama
President-elect Donald Trump probably will not often communicate with the nation via traditional press conferences. Nor will Trump likely field many questions from New York/Washington journalists.
What we know as "the media" never imagined a Trump victory. It has become unhinged...
...the fading establishment media is now distrusted by a majority of the public, according to Gallup — and becoming irrelevant even among progressives.
Once upon a time in the 1960s, all the iconic news anchors, from Walter Cronkite to David Brinkley, were liberal. But they at least hid their inherent biases behind a professional veneer that allowed them to filter stories through left-wing lenses without much pushback.
When Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the 1968 Tet Offensive and declared the war stalemated and unwinnable, no one dared to offer the dissenting viewpoint that Tet was actually a decisive American victory.
The mainstream-media narrative in 1963 that Lee Harvey Oswald, the Castroite, communist assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was a product of right-wing Texas hatred was completely crazy — but largely unquestioned...
...The New York Times and Christiane Amanpour of CNN said that they could not — and should not — be neutral reporters, given their low opinion of Trump...
...Brian Williams sermonized about the so-called "fake news" epidemic... ..."CNN Newsroom" collectively put up their hands in "hands up, don't shoot" solidarity — echoing a narrative of police murder later proved to be completely false...
...Decades-long journalistic one-sidedness was apparently tolerable when there were no other news alternatives...
...those assumptions are no longer true. News outlets such as The New York Times and NBC have no more credibility than most websites or the National Enquirer.
Is it any surprise that we are witnessing the funeral for traditional journalism as we once knew it?
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keep these enemies outside the gate looking in. Let them beg new news outlets that have won favor with the trump administration for thier information
Why bother when whatever information they receive will be twisted and broadcast in all its fake-ness?
Hanson himself was an avowed #NeverTrumper and a member of the NRO Trump-haters club, like Sowell. Whatever respect I might have had for Hanson’s and Sowell’s opinions was forever lost during the past election. I figure my opinion has more insight and weight than either of those guys, given that I was smart enough to see that Trump was going to be the savior of the Republic since day one, long before either of these two came around. Trump had to win the election alone against the entire elitist and intellectual world, which inludes the likes of Hanson and Sowell. Better late than never, I suppose, but I will forever question their judgment henceforth.
HOORAY Donald J. Trump.
A day or two ago on FBN or FNC, Bernie Goldberg was expounding on how Trump absolutely cannot communicate with Americans directly and ignore the MSM. Goldberg hates the liberal MSM, and has been on a war against them for years, but it seems he hates Trump more. He was very arrogant, and dismissive of Trump.
Exactly.
The media elites and their elite political friends are scared to death that they won’t be able to twist Trump’s twitter tweets. Nor will they be able to say it 5 times rapidly. Twist Trump’s Twitter Tweets
President-elect Donald Trump probably will not often communicate with the nation via traditional press conferences.
-- HOORAY Donald J. Trump. --
I thought his pressers were the best, more content than his rallies, plenty pithy. He is fearless and confident.
Say what you will about Brinkley but I'll never forget his "final comments" about Clinton on election night 1996:
Brinkley began his gibes at the president by saying, "We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense."
"Bill Clinton has none of it. He has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore."
Eliminate the White House Press Room.
Create a White House Press web site.
Post all news and announcements here. The American people would get the same information as the press before the press can distort it.
One of them said the “Adults are back in charge “ after Bush was elected in 2000
If I remember correctly
Trump should refuse to co on CNNBCBSPBSMSNBC at all and just talk to FOX and BRIETBART and do TWEETS.
Who cares what they think about that? Can you imagine Lester Holt and Matt Lauer and all these professsional liars suddenly losing their jobs because they really have no access in washington DC any more? Because no one will talk to them?
And TELL THE PEOPLE. Don’t do any hidden boycott, we’ve had enough of that kind of transparency.
Great point I have thought much the same
I wish that when a narrative turned out to be wrong, there was a requirement to put the correction in exactly the same proportion as the original wrong story. If the story was front page, big headlines, the new and true story would have to also be front page, same size headlines and font, if the original was given 20 minutes air time, the corrected story would have to be given the same amount of time in the same prime time. Maybe then they wouldn’t put so much effort into a story until the facts are in.
A major reason that FreeRepublic exists. We want to know what is really going on because media will only filter, twist, bend and distort reality to their liking to affect our perspective.
Good Bye CNN -
adios MSNBC -
auf wiedersehen Yahoo News -
Sayonara New York Times
When Matt Drudge showed us the path to alternative news sources why would we ever again pick up a used copy of the Washington Post, let alone pay for a copy of words that deflects from reality.
I arrived in Washington DC in 1993 and would buy copies of the Washington Post and Washington Times and read their stories of events I knew something about. The Times was much more accurate, yet the "Compost" had the huge circulation.
By '98 and the early days of FreeRepublic, I was done with what became for me the tabloids. It might as well have been the flashing tabloids for sale at the check out counter.
This election cycle, I fell in love with Youtube and the Trump rallies in all their unfiltered glory without 'know-it-all' commentary running over the speaker's words.
I discovered Bill Mitchell and Your Voice Radio, a folksy but enjoyable political discussion show.
I gave the Young Turks a look at until their election night meltdown.
I tolerate a little of Alex Jones, but expect he is becoming the new Glenn Beck.
Trump brought me back to Twitter, which annoys me, but it is still a learning process.
Most of all, after nearly two decades of crazy events, FreeRepublic is still my first stop.
It seems kind of foolish to bet against Trump.
An entire chattering industry put out of business.
The horror...
OK, Cboldt. Thanks. I saw very, very few pressers (maybe 1 or 2). The talking parrots/propagandists were painful to watch...in part thanks to Trump’s confidence and fearlessness. It’s tough to watch those tunnel-visoned totalitarians, so I don’t.
HOORAY Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir.
I do hope VDH is right, and that Trump can hasten their demise.
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