It’s been a long time coming, but the mainstream media is now officially dead. According to Gallup, the trust of the mass media among Americans was down to 32% back in September. After the election, the Wall Street Journal reports an approval rating as low as 19%.
The funny thing is, the media did it to itself. Taking opinions and disguising them as objective reporting doesn’t count as journalism. But for years now, that’s exactly what news outlets like CNN and MSNBC have been doing. Sometimes bias can be disguised by portraying objective facts, but cherry-picking those facts to paint the picture you wish to portray.
For example, when the media acts like Donald Trump’s demeaning comments about women are just as important as Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information. Both may be true, but portraying them as being equally bad is a gross error. Unlike dodging FOIA requests by using a home-brew email server, speaking rudely about women has nothing to do with being president.
And that’s just a recent example. The reason it became so obvious now is because, in the past, the media would often try to hide their bias, at least partly. But during this election cycle, the media was so out of touch with how the American public thinks that it assumed a vast majority of people would be on board with the idea that Trump could never be president. This caused them to shed their cloak of false objectivity and speak openly about how they really felt.
And the public noticed. Once the election was over and Trump won, everyone saw the stark contrast between what the media thinks and what the people think. And this contrast applies even more broadly to the political left as well. The people have rejected both the left and the media that supports it. Maybe, just maybe, calling people racist just because they’re white, or sexist just because they’re men, turns people off to your cause.
But that’s another story.
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