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There is nothing new about liberal media bias. In the 1950s, CBS's Edward R. Murrow went against Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist activities. Even earlier, in the 1930s, the New York Times promoted Stalin as a modernizing leader even as millions starved to death in rural areas or worked to death in the gulags. Over a period of decades, family-owned and often conservative local newspapers, like the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, were either bought out by East Coast-based syndicates like Gannett or inherited by liberal offspring. We see this happening even now at Fox News, where the semi-conservative, though purely establishment, Rupert Murdoch has handed control of his media empire to his liberal sons. Within a year, Hannity, Lou Dobbs, etc., will either be retired or working at OANN (unless they too are bought out).

The 2016 elections have eliminated all pretense of objectivity that the MSM claimed. No more Cronkite saying at the end of his show, "That's the way it is." Without exception, they are as partisan and ideological as Limbaugh, Levin, and Savage. The Democrat Party, the Executive Branch of the Federal government, and the MSM are an iron triangle.

If Hillary wins through psywar and voter fraud, it may be a Pyrrhic victory. Nature abhors vacuums, and the powers that be lack the men and guns to go full Stalin on this country (though they would if they could). I think there are enough "workarounds" that would thwart any attempt to stop the web. The Chinese can work around government censorship, so can we. Reinstating the "Fairness Doctrine" may only eliminate radio talkers like Limbaugh, whose effectiveness has shrunk as his audience ages or is radicalized.

First, there will likely be a recession in the next couple of years. The new President, whether Trump or Hillary, will be blamed for it. With a new cycle of economic problems, it would stretch credulity to blame a recession on the second Bush administration that left office a decade ago. Not even Hollywood airheads will buy that lie. Second, the Trump campaign has devastated the RINO and old line conservative wings of the GOP. Radical types like Alex Jones, Breitbart, and Savage are on the ascendancy. Glenn Beck, Fox News, National Review, and Salem Communications are in free fall. I wouldn't be surprised if Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, and others opt for retirement. In other words, like Poland in the 1980s, uncontrolled opposition has replaced controlled opposition. The 2020 election may make the MSM and the DC-NYC power corridor long for Trump's relative moderation.

The new President, whether Trump or Hillary, will be blamed for it.

I disagree. If Mrs. Bill Clinton, rape enabler, is elected any down turn will be blamed on "the Trump effect". That will be something along the lines of Trump, and his supporters, having made things SO toxic that they tanked the economy as a way of sabotaging the greatness that is her Thighness. Or...wait there is no or; that's the only arrow they'll have in their quiver. The media and the GOPe will go full tilt in an effort to blame Trump and his supporters for any negative thing that happens for the next 4 years; nothing else will even be put forth as a reason for the economy tanking, or country imploding.

There is nothing new about liberal media bias.

What is new is the depth and effectiveness of it.

Television is a sort of brainwash machine that has the ability to bypass the normal cognitive or analytical aspects of the brain and go straight for the emotion centers.

Network Television has also eliminated all opposing viewpoints in it's personnel and now functions as a massive echo chamber of Liberal thought.

This is not your father's Oldsmobile.