This article seems weirdly schizophrenic.
As I read it, I think the guy finds out that all of his Liberal presumptions are wrong. Christians are not bad. Gun owners are not angry. Republicans are not racists. People in the heartland want to do good and help people.
And his conclusion is that Trump is wrong to attack the media, and it is too bad that so few people respect the media, because the media is so important to having a united country.
What?
Yeah.
After showing how wrong and one-sided the establishment media is, he still calls them “independent”.
It is obvious that the establishment media and the Democrat party are just part of the same group.
Sanctification can happen is small increments.
I do agree though, the final few paragraphs seem out of whack.
Some may take pleasure in the discomfort of the media, but it is not a good situation for the country to have the media in disrepute and under constant attack. Virtually every significant leader of this nation, from Jefferson on down, has recognized the critical role of an independent press to the orderly functioning of democracy."Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819 (link) Journalists know that they are negative, and yet claim to be objective. But “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is hard to improve on as definition of “cynicism.”
Per Thomas Paine, “society” and “government” are pretty much antonyms, in the sense that society is “a patron,” whereas government is “a punisher.” Society is “a blessing,” and government is (at best a necessary) “evil." Common Sense Thus, skepticism of society tends to justify government - and cynicism toward society naturally corresponds to naive faith in government.
Journalists tend, therefore, naturally to be “liberals.” This tendency is strongly reinforced by the homogenizing effects of the wire services, especially the Associated Press.
I reached the same conclusion. He readily admits that the mainstream media is made up of elitists who don’t relate at all to the mainstream people, but yet does nothing to call for change within their bigoted domains. Far easier to just blame Trump.
I disagree with his final point that both sides are short-term winners. Trump is proof that their side has lost the heartland. They’ll never get it back with the trash they’re pushing and the gang of bigots doing their reporting.
He wants to still get invited to the liberal parties in DC.