- From spokesholes for liberals in power to spokesholes for liberals out of power
- The gloves are off, the hatchets are out
There has not been a lesson learned by the dominant liberal media (DLM). In great part the election was a rejection of them. Yet they think they were too easy on Trump and Republicans and that is why Hillary and Democrats lost or fared poorly. They tried to cover up or gloss over the scandals she was involved in and should have discovered they lost credibility in doing so.
Perhaps the effectiveness of conservative alternative media has reached critical mass as an effective challenge to the DLM. But rather than adapt and try to be even handed, the DLM is throwing off any semblance of objectivity and proudly wearing the badge of opposition press. They attack the challenge they see from any alternative media as being from “fake news” preying on gullible people. The truth is they have been pushing fake news for decades and more and more people have come to realize that and rely on other outlets or at least political analysis independent of DLM reporting.
The outrageous hatchet jobs they present as objective journalism seem more blatant of late. Of course subtle can be more sinister when it comes to news so that the DLM choose to expose themselves is in that respect better for the body-politic.
While it is important for us to know what everyday people are exposed to, it is impossible to get away from the still dominant liberal media anyway. The AP is the prime example. Local papers feed off of the AP so that organization’s nuances, its bias, its narrative, its interpretations, its falsities, allow it to deciding what is news and what isn’t, what to emphasize. In similar fashion, local broadcast outlets solely feed off the dispatches of their network affiliates for national news. And across the networks and wire services there is the phenomenon of pack journalism and its effect on a truly informed public.
Here are two examples, one pre-election, one post we happened to grab from what we noticed virtually everyday as news imbibers. The sensationalism of them is one thing, the accusatory nature and fair treatment another. Can you imagine similar tone used in headlines as regards Barack Obama or Bill or Hillary Clinton?
