It just doesn't click in the minds of the larger general public.
It's not that the public is stupid but most people get their news on the fly and in sound bites. The media never admits they're wrong; they just move on to the next 'narrative'. A correction is found days later on page 5, section c.
Trump keeps saying, 'Fake News'. You and I get it. He's calling out the MSM.
But the MSM still controls the major outlets for news which is why Google, Facebook, Youtube, et.al. keep trying to shut down alternative sources.
It's not impossible to expose them but they're sly and sneaky in parsing their reports so unless someone uncovers an indisputable connection between the MSM and the intelligence community and subversive liberal groups the general public will never see how they create fake news.
And they're the reporters. They're the 'newspapers of record'. They aren't going to do exposes on themselves.
And they're the reporters. They're the 'newspapers of record'. They aren't going to do exposes on themselves.
The problem as I see it is that there is no way to put out that much truth to match the propaganda power of “the media.” As you say, they are slippery critters.IMHO there is nothing for it but to sue them for libel, New York Times v. Sullivan notwithstanding. Make the case that
- ”the media” is (not are) a monopoly. This is pretty obvious when you figure how many of them are members of the Associated Press. The direct result of this collusion is that journalists go along and get along with each other, and this negates any tendency towards ideological competition among them.
- ”the media” and the Democrat Party are joined at the hip. This is the natural result of the fact that journalism makes its money from bad news which casts American society in a bad light - and which raises the question as to how the government might fix it. It creates a situation in which prohibiting politicians (actually, Republican politicians) from suing for libel, de facto, entitles the Democrat Party to its own facts.
- If Campaign Finance Reform is constitutional, the fact that the MSM is joined at the hip to the Democrat Party is a gigantic violation of it.