No...it shouldn’t be a war with the media.....besides they’ve already been exposed plenty of times and everyone certainly knows there’s bias and a whole host of other warts they wear.
Trumps not the only Candidate who has spoken back to the media and he won’t be the last......the only way the media is affected if people stop watching and they aren’t going to do that no matter how the media acts or refuses to act.
Media is like any other corporation....who owns it gets the say...and you can be sure Fox considered advertiszers possible negative response in their planning. They ALWAYS go back to Fox...just like it’s viewers do.
I didn't watch the kiddie table part of the debate last time, and without the guy leading the field, all that is left is kiddie table candidates.
Trump comes out of this not only looking strong, he's also relegating Cruz to the kiddie table where he'll be spending his night trading barbs with Jeb and Kasich.
“No...it shouldn’t be a war with the media”
They are at war with us. It’s either fight or fall.
“everyone certainly knows there’s bias”
Not so. The country is full of people who think the media are at least trying to report the news or provide entertainment.
“and a whole host of other warts they wear.”
It’s not that they wear warts; it is that they *are* leftists—and that is a loathsome thing to be. Leftists are leftists before they are anything else. They cannot stop themselves from using their media positions to push leftism. They are incapable of restraining themselves.
“Trump’s not the only candidate who has spoken back to the media and he won’t be the last.”
The first campaign I remember is Ike’s second. The only candidate who ever did anything similar was Ronaldus Magnus. None of the current crop of weaklings will even approach Trump in terms of appropriate responses to media misprision. Ever.
“the only way the media is affected if people stop watching and they aren’t going to do that no matter how the media acts or refuses to act.”
The dinosaur media have been slowly dying (think Cheech Marin in “Yellowbeard”) since Rush Limbaugh went national. The advent of the Internet was another lance through the heart.
People have been turning away in greater and greater numbers since the Reagan years made their lying hypocrisy apparent.
“and you can be sure Fox considered advertiszers possible negative response in their planning.”
When the ratings of this debate drop significantly, it will become apparent who considered what and who is just another liberal mouthpiece.
“They ALWAYS go back to Fox...just like it’s viewers do.”
When Fox News debuted, their lie-to-truth ratio was as low as 50%. That made them seem like a breath of fresh air. Now it’s often as high as 85%. They are losing viewers too.
There is one thing, and only one, that the lame-stream media could have done to save themselves, but it was the one thing they could never do.
Stop lying. Just stop lying.
But that was and remains beyond their powers. As Fox’s early successes show, the first significant news resource to simply stop lying will own the world. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Fox.