In addition to a sitting president calling a candidate unfit, as well as a supreme court justice, its pretty obvious to anyone paying attention this is the truth
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Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.
The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.
Liberal bias in journalism is often baked into the cake. The traditional ethos of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable leads to demands that government solve every problem. Favoring big government, then, becomes routine among most journalists, especially young ones.
I know because I was one of them. I started at the Times while the Vietnam War and civil-rights movement raged, and was full of certainty about right and wrong.
My editors were, too, though in a different way. Our boss of bosses, the legendary Abe Rosenthal, knew his reporters leaned left, so he leaned right to “keep the paper straight.”
That meant the Times, except for the opinion pages, was scrubbed free of reporters’ political views, an edict that was enforced by giving the opinion and news operations separate editors. The church-and-state structure was one reason the Times was considered the flagship of journalism.
Those days are gone. The Times now is so out of the closet as a Clinton shill that it is giving itself permission to violate any semblance of evenhandedness in its news pages as well as its opinion pages.
A recent article by its media reporter, Jim Rutenberg, whom I know and like, began this way: “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”
Whoa, Nellie. The clear assumption is that many reporters see Trump that way, and it is noteworthy that no similar question is raised about Clinton, whose scandals are deserving only of “scrutiny.” Rutenberg approvingly cites a leftist journalist who calls one candidate “normal” and the other “abnormal.”
Clinton is hardly “normal” to the 68 percent of Americans who find her dishonest and untrustworthy, though apparently not a single one of those people writes for the Times. Statistically, that makes the Times “abnormal.”
Also, you don’t need to be a detective to hear echoes in that first paragraph of Clinton speeches and ads, including those featured prominently on the Times’ Web site. In effect, the paper has seamlessly adopted Clinton’s view as its own, then tries to justify its coverage.
It’s an impossible task, and Rutenberg fails because he must. Any reporter who agrees with Clinton about Trump has no business covering either candidate.
It’s pure bias, which the Times fancies itself an expert in detecting in others, but is blissfully tolerant of its own. And with the top political editor quoted in the story as approving the one-sided coverage as necessary and deserving, the prejudice is now official policy.
http://nypost.com/2016/08/21/american-j ... -our-eyes/
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Cokie Roberts, the daughter of a Louisiana democratic politician, feels she has the bully pulpit to say that anyone who supports Trump is morally tainted.
and don't get me wrong - I'm not a Fox News Acoloyte. They are the worst but that's really part of my point. Trump says and does a lot of stupid shit, but so far, he's not even in the same world of corruption and scofflaw that Clinton represents. The American people aren't excited about Hillary and they fully understand what she is and what she represents, but the media believes they have an obligation to think for the masses - to shape an election and their priorities - the transgender laws are a perfect example - and Target fell victim to buying into the media's full frontal attack on anyone to didn't buy into the "right" way of thinking. Now Target is dealing with the backlash of following the enlightened, trying to capitalize on the cutting edge of the media message. Their attempt to be on the right side of the American conscience is costing them $20m in renovations and a significant drop in revenue, mainly because they ignored the bell shaped curved of America demographics. In this case the people feeling slighted are a very small percentage of the overall population and the people feeling ...lets say "uneasy" about the proposed solutions represented a much, much larger percentage of the American population - and consequently their buying public at large.
Trump may not even come close to winning, but whoever said these people aren't going away are right - and the more the media tries to silence them, I think the more resolved they get.
The past 8 years has been about giving priority to the have nots at the expense of the haves - and by definition the haves are not the wealthiest 10% as they want you think but also the remaining 40-50% of the middle class, the 97% that is heterosexual, the 60% that think that border control and tougher immigration should be a priority, and the 49% of Americans who have employer sponsored health care that are not eligible for tax credits but have to live with the increased cost due to the mandates of Obamacare. That 51% of Americans representing the middle class, after adjusting for inflation, that on average hasn't seen a wage increase in 15 years are just expected to absorb that and feel good about their forced altruistic support of the overall well being of this country.
Those people are pissed and they are really pissed at the media telling them how wrong they are for the way they think. Its not only a bias or shaping of opinion, its a credibility issue. Thanks to the internet, people are now more aware of concepts on how the message is tailored, edited or or outright fabricated to push an agenda in the media.