The media promised to do better after
Trump’s 2016 win — instead, they got worse
by
Kyle Smith
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/25/2020 5:00:41 AM
The media tackled what was happening in the summer and fall of 2016 like the third-string of the New York Jets. They blew it. They whiffed. They could not conceive of a Donald Trump victory, and so they portrayed this event as a near-impossibility. To their credit, they admitted it, and they vowed to do better next time.
“If I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it’s that we’ve got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to … and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Frenesi1 10/25/2020 6:59:31 AM (No. 583459)
Did anyone believe the media when they promised to do better? LOL
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/25/2020 8:02:20 AM (No. 583502)
"what did the media do after the dust settled and Trump geared up for reelection?"
Oh no. They didn't wait that long. They went after Trump immediately after the election, even as they were talking about "doing better". As this election cycle started, they simply turned the "Get Trump" dial to MAX+. Their weapon, they decided, would be racism. After all, every once in a while a Black Person is killed by the police. The circumstances don't matter. They can, and DO, use such occasions as launch pads for attacks. They launched their 1619 Project in 2019 but you know that it was in the works well before that. It was a coordinated effort across various media platforms and media organizations. It was a political campaign by the media. They waited for the right optics and the Floyd death fell into their laps. The mess that evolved from that has been SCRIPTED by the media.
The problem is, the American People, even the liberals caught in "woke" riot zones, did NOT like the "movie" the media produced. Their power to persuade and their credibility has been seriously eroded.
The beauty of this is that they have been trolled into this by Trump. If they had treated him fairly, they would not have had any problems. However, they didn't because their egos told them that THEY should lead people to the "correct" choice of president. Trump KNOWS and is a master of media, far better than most media front people and even the owners and CEOs. They, of course, did not believe or respect this. So Trump started pointing out their lies and mistakes, relentlessly, and labeled them "fake news" and "enemies of the American People". The media fell on their faces, over and over and got more and more furious and made mistake after mistake which Trump happily pointed out. The media reached a point of blatant irrationality which was impossible to ignore and even the people in the mushy middle that may not be enamored of Trump noticed it and devalued the media for it.
The media has reached the point where they report and most people say "I wonder if that is true", a default position of doubt. Since the level of their reporting has reached absurd levels, the people's doubt is usually confirmed, first hand experience of the uselessness of media.
And the media did it to themselves.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 10/25/2020 10:21:16 AM (No. 583649)
From the NYT in 2016:
"… and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world,” New York Times editor Dean Baquet admitted."
Oh, yeah, NYC is not anything like the real world. And yet, no matter how many times they may say it (not often) the NYC folks believe to their marrow that NYC is the absolute focus of the universe, and that New Yorkers are the smartest, most accomplished and most all-around-wonderful folks who ever lived.
Bunkum. Some NYC folks are pretty capable, but huge swaths are there to try to grab onto what they perceive as 'the centers of power'. LOTS of the NYC powerful, like horrible Jerry Nadler, are fourth rate political thugs and bullies with zero vision and nearly that much brains.
They are so convinced that the rest of the country, heck the rest of the world is populated with low grade morons who THEY need to guide into the proper lifestyle choices and control, lest we hurt ourselves by being TOO FREE.
GTH, NYC and all your Enemedia drones. Even professional trouble maker black Communist Van Jones has realized that the President has done more for black people than anyone in decades. And Trump hasn't created great conditions only for one race, but for ALL AMERICANS. He has been Making America Great Again, and lots of people, even people who started out hating him, have seen that it is really happening.
I just hope that the Enemedia-Democrat Fraud Machine isn't able to steal this election for a demented old political money grubbing traitor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/25/2020 4:58:46 PM (No. 583995)
Well, they got better at what they were doing last time.
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