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The real problem is that what the MSM calls “fake news” is actually the truth and what the MSM spews is propaganda.

This has been going on since the invention of newspapers, but the ordinary man had no way to see it, understand the reality, or fight back.

As the internet has become more important and relevant to ordinary life, the gatekeeper function of the MSM has become much less powerful.

Even 4 years ago Trump would have been a fringe candidate and would have been ignored. The MSMN was all-in on the administration lie that we were “recovering” from the great recession and all the economically devastated people across the country would not have know that there were a hundred million kindred souls just like them. The idea that a candidate actually knew about their problems and wanted to solve them would not have entered their consciousness .

The MSM is in a truly horrible position. DJT knows how to reach the American people without their filter. They can either get on board or be run over. PC is going overboard and they are going to have to report the truth or lose out to someone who will report it.

The author pretends that the MSM establishment doesn’t use the internet to collude with each other and the DNC and far left activist groups to present a unified message (complete with spoonfed talking points).

The author needs to look up the “journolist” scandal.
The author needs to read the leaked Podesta emails.
The author needs to read up on what Rush Limbaugh calls “seminar callers”.

This has been going on since the invention of newspapers, but the ordinary man had no way to see it, understand the reality, or fight back.

Not exactly correct. In the revolutionary period up till about the 1880’s, the media was partisan and everyone knew it. Cost of entry into the media was not very high. The change was when the media become much more centrally controlled, starting with the AP.

Now we are moving back to a time where the media is partisan, and everyone knows it. Entry into the media is the cost of a computer and an Internet connection.

We had partisan media for a hundred years, a transitional period for about 40 -60 years as the U.S. media became controlled by “progressives”, aided by the Soviets, then a wildly partisan, claiming to be objective “progressive” media for 30 years (when most of the damage to the culture, constitution, and society was done, about 1963-1994), then a transition period back toward partisan media for about 20 years, and we are in partisan media mode now.