But that brings up another question:
What does it mean for the mainstream media to hold Trump accountable?
They will hit him if he doesn't keep his campaign promises; and they will hit him even harder if he does.
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The “media” has abandoned half of America, and that half, no longer believes them.
That changes things enormously.
America no longer believes our media. The media is increasingly irrelevant.
I’ll worry about Trump when the media starts telling me he’s on the right track. I think I’ll have to wait a long time before I worry about Trump.
...the mainstream media’s single-minded focus on destroying Trump undermines their credibility....
And this kind of obvious bias went a long way to Trump’s victory. . Democrats and the media did it to themselves.
The actual truth is that mainstream media is populated by idiots, thumb-suckers, morons and degenerates.
The greater majority of everyone employed in that industry is incapable of functioning outside of their self created safe-space echo chamber.
Contrary to popular belief and myth, there never was a period of our history where the mainstream media, in whatever form it took, was anything other than what it is today. It is only now that the population has tech with which to communicate widely, constantly and quickly enough to protect ourselves from the emotional/psychological predators that flock to ‘journalism’ like thieves flock to politics.
Doesn't matter one iota what the mainstream media says or does before or after his inauguration. Trump, and us, do not need them. They were so utterly wrong about Hillary, there is absolutely no trust whatsoever in anything that comes out of their mouths, written opinion or "news" articles. They committed journalistic suicide and there is no recovery from suicide. I hope Trump bans a significant number of them from WH briefings. They went out of their way to discredit Trump and to misinform the citizens-voters of America.
Whatever they say from here on in is nothing more than background noise. Same for the celebrities who went berserk selling themselves and their souls to the female devil incarnate.
Apparently acknowledging an obvious reality makes you a "conspiracy theorists" in this nit-wit's eyes.
No, I did not bother to read any further.
It would be like reading a book by Michael Mann
“Why The Mainstream Media Cant Hold Trump Accountable”
Uhmmmmm,
Cuz they’re retarded as p-huck?
There's a verb tense problem with this sentence. They've already given up their credibility, so they've given up their ability to hold him accountable. And that's fine ... those who supported him will keep a much harder eye on him than the fake media ever did Obama/Hillary etc.
I like Trump a lot, have since the beginning, but most of us who always liked him recognize that the very thing we like requires that we watch him like a Focker. I don't see the Ingraham's, Hannity's etc giving him a free pass, but he's also earned some extra rope on the leash. You can't fix a totally broken republic with the same tools you would use to maintain an operational republic.
#1: He’s smarter than all of them put together.
I understand that the mediots believe that they need to hold Trump “accountable”. The question is for accountable what?
He’s not the president, yet.
Accountable for dismantling their shibboleths? Deporting illegal aliens? and muslim soldiers? for exposing the pure villainy of the demcoRATS and their failed policies?
Further, would they have held hILLary accountable? Or, would there have been the daily orgasm that passed for news about Onambla?
We all know that the mediots would have given us the daily orgasm about Saint hILLary and how just how absolutely fantabulous she is, how samrt, how beautiful, how she is the third coming (Onambla was the second coming) of Christ as a woman. It would have been nauseating.
Many in America have wised up to the brokered media ...
“undermines their credibility”
What credibility?
At our house, Twitter trumps the MSM
The media gave Obama a complete pass. Their high dudgeon over Trump is laughable.
What does it mean for the mainstream media to hold Trump accountable?
The mainstream media is like an abortionist holding an unborn child accountable for its own demise.
No moral or ethical superiority exists except in their own minds.
It’s already to too late for the fake stream media. Theyve doubled (heck quadrupled) down on attacking President Trump even though hes not even in office yet, and all theyve succeeded in doing is further marginalizing their influence and credibility.
Twelve months from now, CNN and MSNBC will be reduced to just competing with each other for an ever shrinking number of alt-left viewers, with ABC/NBC/CBS also seeing an accelerating demise, while WaPo, NYT, ETC will be pretty much just a few more fake news sites amongst thousands of others, and not even very credible fake news sites at that.
“because as a political novice with authoritarian tendencies, Trump will doubtless need to be checked.”
Hey, Davidson, speaking of credibility problems, go look in a mirror!
Trump is in the process of making the media irrelevant. We can see it if we look. All he has to do is log onto Twitter and announce whatever he wants to, and they don’t know what to do about it.
He has a huge megaphone, and uses it daily. That’s why a lot of the buttheads on TV keep saying he should stop using Twitter, they know it will make the media obsolete before long. That’s why Twitter has announced they will delete his account if he posts anything they consider “hate speech”.
I predict by the time he is halfway through his first term, the MSM will either be completely obsolete, or will have done a complete 180 and started trying to actually do their job and report the freakin truth.
CNN was ranked even below MSNBC last time ratings were released, if I remember correctly, NY Times reported a 95% decline in revenue, others will be following the same trend soon, they’re on their way out and they know it.
As some have said, they are still dangerous, but only because many people don’t dig up news like many of us do, they see their 20 minutes of ABC, NBC or CBS at 5PM and they’re off to see what the Kardashians are up to this week, so the MSM still has an audience, their usual completely uninformed Mr and Ms everyday person. They don’t know they are being lied to and won’t believe it if you try and tell them, I’ve tried it. They’ve been conditioned (read brainwashed) to believe the “news” has some sort of built in imperative to always report the honest truth, no matter what.
Sorry folks, the days of Ben Franklin are long gone. Truth in journalism is a thing of the past, it’s all propaganda now but the average Joe doesn’t know it. Trump is changing that but it will take a while, he’ll do it by going around the media and straight to the people by way of the Internet. Give it a couple of years, and I’m betting we’ll see a completely different journalistic landscape...