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?
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
The New York Times shrunk by a fifth of its 2015 reader base during the part of 2016 which has passed.
And Donald Trump hasn’t even excluded them from covering the sitting president yet.
“Twist Trump’s Twitter Tweets”
I’m not so sure. There was a Trump guy on last night trying to explain a recent Trump Tweet. Unless one is careful and deliberate when one tweets, the media will spin it like crazy. Much easier to take him out of context when there is so little context. Not sure about this twitter thing.
You’re right; the enemedia is dying too slowly - Hillary damned near won this election.
Somebody was describing to me a movement (possibly a law being considered) that would let people “unbundle” their cable packages, so schmucks like me could drop MSNBCNN and their ilk. As is stands now, basic cable includes a contribution from me to these Bolshevik bastards.
I gave up newspapers a long time ago. Free Republic is my go to for news. There is one drawback. My wife still avidly reads the newspaper. On occasion she asks me if I remember some local news from a year ago, and I have no idea what she’s talking about.
People complain about Twitters 140 characters, but it is very effective as 140 characters is the attention span of most people.
From Hansen’s keyboard to God’s ears. With the propaganda MSM (hopefully) dying, the next priority should be for Trump and Betsy DeVos to really stir up our shameful education/indoctrination system and to fight the teacher unions and failing public schools that promote mediocrity and Cultural Marxism. We have to reverse Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” and stop the left’s domination over the means of communication and influence.
Ping.
They’ll be reduced to using Twitter a a byline.
They’ll be reduced to using Twitter as a byline.
This is true... the press took a known communist killer - a total leftwing hater - turned him upside down and blamed Dallas' Christian community for Kennedy's murder. It really happened.
Yes! What you said. The “intellectuals” didn’t understand that someone can be smart and a bit outrageous, and that’s what was needed to win in 2016.
Trump is breaking many, many rice bowls.
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