The tenor of the main stream media is more positive since the election because the members of the press feel better. They feel better not only because their guys won, but because they feel (correctly) that they had a big hand in the victory. And, in the end, the news coverage we get from the press is all about them.
This is why it is important to have partisans of both stripes in the press. The problem today is that all we have are democrat partisans in the main stream press.
What will be interesting is in the next two years while the media tries to schizophrenically hype the joy of having a Dem-controlled congress while trying to explain the horrors of a Republican White House. They've gotten rusty, over the past twelve years, peddling this particular story-line, but they'll get the hang of it soon enough.
"The problem today is that all we have are democrat partisans in the main stream press."
The democrats get 365 days of free campaigning from the one flavor media. Republicans get negative reporting 365 days of the year and they're sometimes allowed to buy time to get their message out. No diversity in thought allowed at Universities or media outlets!
The democrat controlled media feels this is okay because they're right... doncha' know /sarcarsm
Wait a sec. I thought this economy was the worse since the Great Depression.
The Democratic takeover must have given the public renewed confidence.
This is why it is important to have partisans of both stripes in the press. The problem today is that all we have are democrat partisans in the main stream press.
First paragraph dead on; second paragraph has a hitch. Exactly because "it's all about them" with journalists, and journalism does nothing except criticize, condemn and complain, it is impossible for journalism to be anything other than socialist.Because socialism is exactly criticism and second guessing, Big Journalism is a political party of the left. And, since the Vietnam era, the Democratic Party has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Journalism. And since second guessing makes you look smart when you are out of power but doesn't qualify you to be dog catcher let alone POTUS, the logical result of Big Journalism in power is the Clinton "symbolism over substance" "continuous political campaign" presidency. Unable to actively take risk, but doomed to take the enormous risk of paralysis and inaction.