Posted on 06/11/2017 4:06:21 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
In one of the last segments on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter spent nearly four and half minutes whining about the public, specifically Trump supporters, who don’t believe the news media. “If you don't believe the ‘media,’ then you probably don't believe that the Trump administration has had a dysfunctional few months,” he chided at the start of the segment. “If you don't believe the ‘media,’ you might not believe Russia's meddling in last year's election is a very big deal.”
Stelter admitted that the distrust in media started long before President Trump, but he rested its current state at Trump’s feet. “And the President feeds that inherent distrust with tweets like this. Here he is this morning saying: ‘The fake news MSM doesn’t report the great economic news since Election Day,’” he read from a cheery picked tweet. He then pointed to a poll to show “how this anti-media rhetoric is having a real effect:”
"A new Quinnipiac poll shows that more than half the country, 52 percent, believes Trump has changed attitudes towards the news media for the worse. 22 percent say he’s changed attitudes for the better. And 20 percent say he hasn't had an impact."
He then brought on political analyst Jeff Greenfield to confer, asking him: “How corrosive has this antimedia campaign been, do you think?”
Greenfield thought it was “the singular political success” Trump had had since being elected president of the United States. “I think that has served that relentless campaign on Twitter and in his comments, fake news, fake news, fake news has been to convince that group of people that there is no such thing as a set of facts independent of your politics,” he complained. “And that has certainly served to continue and accelerate what you've talked about as a long process of declining trust in news.”
Stelter described any and all discussion of the press’s dishonesty as “venom” and called it “the story of the decade in media.” And he didn’t know how to solve the problem of an aware public. “It's kind of like Sisyphus. You got to roll that stone up the hill,” Greenfield explained, saying that eventually, people might come around.
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Stelter asks, “what do we do about it?” First you have to correctly diagnose the problem. Blaming it on Trump’s tweets reveals just how delusional these people are. People do not trust the media because they lie. The internet has allowed people to discover these lies. Once your credibility is lost it is almost impossible to regain it. With the election of Trump media lies have only gotten worse. You can go back to William Randolph Hearst bragging about getting the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. NYT’s Walter Duranty’s coverage of the Ukrainian famine. Dan Rather and Stelter might try reading former CNN head Eason Jordan’s op-ed “The News We Kept to Ourselves”. Your solution: shut down the internet and reestablish your monopoly on information.
Buy stock in rope-manufacturing companies...
Stetler is a bottom of the barrel, lying scumbag.
Regarding Comeys testimony on Lynch.
Here is what CNN said about it:
“It won’t get much attention, but that was pretty damning,” said CNN’s John King of Comey’s testimony about Lynch. You can translate “it won’t get much attention” into “we won’t give it much attention.”
“People do not trust the media because they lie.”
I have long said that what the media must do is the one thing they cannot do: stop lying.
These idiots’ ratings numbers have been going down long before Trump threw his hat in the ring...they are delusional if they think they are respected.
Pssst, hey Media: We didn’t start hating your guts when Trump became President.
Funny how blind they are. We know they don’t just hate Trump, but they hate us too, every person who voted for Trump. Good luck with that CNN. You’ve passed off half the country. You’ll never be able to make for that.
Too funny.
I will probably shamelessly borrow that and post it everywhere.
I stole it off a twitter thread somewhere (maybe the one from this article).
Steal shamelessly!
:)
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