If you thought a pandemic that wiped out tens of millions of U.S. jobs and erased trillions of dollars from Americans’ life savings and was purported to threaten millions of American lives would be sufficient for the U.S. political news media to start behaving responsibly, you were wrong.
Every Sunday I somehow manage to catch just about every minute of every political show…
Meet The Press (NBC)
This Week (ABC)
Face The Nation (CBS)
State of the Union (CNN)
Fox News Sunday (Fox News)And to be clear, I don’t watch these programs.
I monitor them.
And every week throughout this crisis I’ve tuned in dismayed by the unfortunate reality that nothing has changed.
Just as they have the last four years and just as they will the next five…
The U.S. political news media — the best that Hollywood and academia have to offer given their aggregate strengths around acting, drama, debate and general aptitude — every minute of every day they will choose only stories that they hope will damage President Trump and put targets on the backs of anyone who supports or defends him. And every minute of every day they will characterize those stories in ways meant only to inflict the maximum damage to President Trump and anyone who supports or defends him. And every minute of every day they will suppress any aspect of those stories that might bode well for President Trump. And they will sensationalize every aspect of those stories that bolster their hate-filled narratives designed to target President Trump. And when they engage with people who support or defend President Trump they will relentlessly interrogate and seek to shame or otherwise humiliate those people. And when they engage with people who oppose President Trump they will promote and empower those individuals. And when their viewers and readers start to believe that anyone wearing a MAGA hat deserves to be violently assaulted, the media turn their backs and pretend it’s not happening. If they report on it at all they do so only in passing so they can say “See! We reported that!”, and then they go right back to stoking violent hatred in their Resistance audience while vilifying Americans who support President Trump.
And it’s constant. It’s literally 24×7. Twitter can be described as the media’s locker room and if you scroll the feeds of any CNN, NBC, Washington Post or New York Times “journalist” from the last several years, all you’ll find is an array of dishonestly characterized hit pieces on President Trump, snarky attacks on people who support or defend him, and total capitulation to and/or support of Democrats and their NeverTrump whipping boys.
And you might have thought that an actual crisis — the kind the media spent years telling us would be made more horrific due to an inability to trust Trump, when in fact for many of us it’s been made far more horrific because we can’t trust the media — you might have thought the onset of that kind of crisis would’ve inspired the media to rise above their trashy, snarky, immature, entirely transparent partisanship and perversion of the powers afforded to them by the First Amendment.
But you were wrong.
So far this otherwise beautiful Sunday morning I’ve only gotten through one program: CNN’s State Of The Union. But it was, just as it’s been every other week, another full hour of Resistance Jake Tapper piling on in every intellectually dishonest and divisive way he and his producers could muster to characterize the news in a way designed to damage President Trump and make anyone who supports or defends him look like dangerous idiots who deserve to be shamed and attacked at every turn.
And I know when I get through the rest of them — NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News with Chuck Todd-Wallace — it will be more of the same.
Don’t let the media fool you. I know with Trump’s approval for handling the Wuhan Virus being a net 33 points higher than the media’s, increasingly large numbers of Americans aren’tfooled by the media. But this 22-second video that parodies one of CNN’s earliest “#FactsFirst” ads, tells the story pretty well. The media tell you they’re coming at the news from an impartial perspective. They’re not. They’re coming at the news from a leftist (anti-Trump) perspective. And that partisan characterization they use to pick, package and deliver their reporting, is the most pervasive and unfortunate quality you can use to spot today’s unfortunately pervasive “fake news.”
Todays KungFlu presser, media question, why take chances why are the fast food and grocery stores open. I wish they would have to announce who they were covering for. mark 1:08:20
I guess they want starvation in isolation, home invasions for food.
I just totaly quit watching the Fake NEWS I WATCH NO NEWS AT ALL AND I QUIT READING THE M.S. Media its 99% lies 1% truth
Curt, link doesn’t work.
@retire05: https://magazine.whatfinger.com/story/even-amid-a-pandemic-media-still-democrats-best-weapon-americas-greatest-threat/
Americas worst enemy all Domestic and their the Democrat Party the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR)and Liberals
Mystery solved the reporter was from the NYtimes I guess in NY people all have over a months supply of everything in their tiny apartments
In the beginning of this crisis, Democrats (which includes much of the media) embarrassed themselves by opposing and denigrating everything Trump said or did to face this crisis. Soon they had to reverse themselves and pseudo-erase their history of downplaying the oncoming crisis and try to reverse their roles with Trump as those who took it seriously while he fiddled.
Throughout it all, they’ve tried to stoke fear and create panic. Mostly they succeeded, but they have proven without doubt that what THEY want is a terrible epidemic, with millions of deaths and an economy that collapses and begs for central control and 5 year plans… SOCIALISM.
What they’ve accomplished, I think, is the creation of a faux-monster devouring the nation that, when Trump’s policies are ultimately successful, will make his accomplishment even GREATER than reality.
@retire05: Fixed