Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble

Washington Free Bacon ^ | 10/06/2017 | Matthew Continetti

[ForYourChildren]

Column: Trump drives the mainstream media to abandon the pretense of objectivity!

For years, reporters were content to obscure their ideological dogmas and partisan goals behind the pretense of objectivity and detachment. Though the Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN practiced combat journalism against conservatives and Republicans, they did so while aspiring to professional standards of facticity and fairness, and applying, every now and then, scrutiny to liberals and Democrats worthy of investigation.

Donald Trump changed that, of course. He is so unusual a figure, and his behavior so outlandish, that his rise precipitated a crisis in a profession already decimated by the collapse of print circulation and advertising dollars. The forces that brought Trump to power are alien to the experience of the men and women who populate newsrooms, his supporters unlike their colleagues, friends, and neighbors, his agenda anathema to the catechism of social liberalism, his career and business empire complex and murky and sensational. Little surprise that journalists reacted to his election with a combination of panic, fear, disgust, fascination, exhilaration, and the self-affirming belief that they remain the last line of defense against an emerging American autocracy. Who has time for dispassionate analysis, for methodical research and reporting, when the president's very being is an assault on one's conception of self, when nothing less than the future of the country is at stake? Especially when the depletion of veteran editors, the relative youth and inexperience of political and congressional reporters, and the proliferation of social media, with its hot takes and quips, its groupthink and instant gratification, makes the transition from inquiry to indignation all too easy.

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[ForYourChildren]

The author of this article is real dweeb, Matthew Continetti.

But here is an article that he wrote that makes since. Just one from him.

[Grampa Dave]

Folks, if you don’t instinctively reject everything you first hear in the media, you’re making a mistake. It now needs to become our default position. Whatever we first hear or see or read in reporting about Trump, if it’s in the Drive-Bys, doubt it, question it. I’m telling you, all week long I have been seeing “Trump to Recertify Iran Deal,” even though they’re breaking it, even though everybody knows Iran’s violating the terms of the deal. “There’s not much Trump can do. There’s not much we can do. We need to hang in and hope that we can manage it.” And then I get this story today, “Trump to Announce He Will Decertify the Iranian Nuclear Deal.”

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/10/06/three-stories-that-will-excite-the-trump-base/

[LouieFisk]

Yup, he wrote something worth a read with this one.

[lavaroise]

Donald Trump did not change that. I explained it before that the media covering for Obama as a god gave Obama the aura of messianic objective god and took on the role of covering up for him in most subjective ways, saying everything idiotic Obama could not pronounce outright for him.

Obama changed that, Obama and the Obama-media affair destroyed the media! Obama wanted it to be that way as all dictators play it that way - as fixers of a dispute and mess which they themselves foment and originate.

All crazy psychopath psychiary is basically psychoanalysis as a mental illness being its own cure. Obama fits this, The media and Hillary are still within grips of this crypto nutcase who wants to not know anyone and yet pretends to feel and know us, a fracking robot without a soul.

[Common Sense 101]

Prestense? How brain dead does one have to be to recognize that the scum enemedia has NEVER had objectivity...

[jeffc]

the self-affirming belief that they [the "media"] remain the last line of defense against an emerging American autocracy.

Delusional. They are on the front-line of the attempt to create an American autocracy: the Democrats. Some of them know it, too...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

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[i_robot73]

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the self-affirming belief that they [the “media”] remain the last line of defense against an emerging American autocracy.
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Delusional. They are on the front-line of the attempt to create an American autocracy: the Democrats. Some of them know it, too...
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Proof in one word: Camelot.

[ForYourChildren]

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[beergarden]

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[Paladin2]

“What passes for news today is speculation and advocacy, wishful thinking and self-fashioning, mindless jabber and affirmations of virtue, removed from objective reality and common sense. “

[TChad]

Not bad, but it ignores the level of contempt on both sides.

[Conservative Gato]

Decades of leftist academia pushing their radical agenda on those who come to run, industry, the education system, the media, corporations, or any institution of influence, has come to fruition. It’s why the leadership of the NFL doesn’t get it and triples down on stupid.

At least the majority of Americans don’t buy in to their bubble and are pushing back. The election of President Trump was Americans way of telling the left, we are tired of their bubble they live in and we don’t want to be a part of that corrupt culture.

CGato

[fortes fortuna juvat]

>> He is so unusual a figure, and his behavior so outlandish,<<

Bull crap. Tell us just how “his behavior” is outlandish. These stupid so-called journalists are all programmed to demean the President in everything they write.