A man with Abe Lincoln's background, from small town midwest who didn't go to Harvard or the equivalent, would be ridiculed by today's media. As long as you have the proper prep school and/or university ‘passport’, can sip Sherry with your little finger out, and can spout the usual vacuous liberal drivel, you are considered ‘elite’ and knowledgeable by the left - even if your head is so empty that a NYC developer wants to build and sell condos in it.
Sorry, Tommy, but Trump didn’t do this. You did it to yourselves and it goes back at least as far as Walter “we lost the war” Cronkite.
The MSM turned me against the MSM because of their dishonesty, and they did so long before President Trump was candidate Trump
I lost all respect for Brokaw when he wrote his book about the men of WW2 and didn’t mention that Foss had been the President of the NRA.
This hack, knows how the media has savaged Donald Trump ever since he first announced his candidacy.
There’s compilation videos all over YouTube of the media, openly laughing, blatantly mocking, and endlessly attacking the mere idea of a “President Trump.”
And that was nothing compared to what the media has been doing to him since he was elected with their 24/7 onslaught of lies and unabashed hate of him.
Instead of admitting that Donald Trump is being successful in the economy, in the record-breaking stock market that the media couldn’t stop referring to as “tanking” during election night...
Instead of admitting that Donald Trump has done well with world leaders, including assembling Muslim nations to fight terrorism and prevailing upon China to pressure North Korea...
Instead of admitting that they were not only wrong about the polls, but were wrong about Donald Trump as president...
The media blames Donald Trump for the division in our country and the public’s hatred of them.
Well, I would remind Tom Brokaw that it was Barack Obama and the Democrat party that started separating us with “identity” politics, and the public’s disdain for the media has been well documented long before Donald Trump ever came along.
The MSM is hated because they regularly exercise their ability to ignore stories that harm their interests, or for steering stories by selective reporting.
I’m pretty sure the press did this to themselves by presenting blatantly liberal biased reports.
NO Mr. Brokaw, the MEDIA turned us against the MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!
McCain should have asked Brokaw why the LSM didn't bother to vet BHO's BC even one-tenth-of-one-percent as much as they did on McCain's.
But McCain's the LSM butt boy.
Thank you Tom for answering the question, who do you Hang first, the Journalists or the Politicians?
The media/press did this to themselves. No one did it to them. That victim card is all used up.
That is a perfect example of #FakeNews right there! Was Pat Caddell being influenced by Donald Trump in 2012?
People like Tom Brokaw turned the people of the country against the media by bad reporting and making up some news before they had the facts. All Trump did was call it to our attention, although some of us were fully aware of the issue long before Trump mentioned it.
Brokaw, you twit. Do you honestly think Trump rose to the presidency in some sort of vacuum? If the Media weren’t so FUBAR, the general public wouldn’t have flocked to vote for him. Plus you allowed Hillary to ‘pick’ her opponent — and that was Trump. So you get what you got.
Am I the only person who thinks McShame faked his brain cancer? He sure seems to be hale and hardy and it’s been a long time since it was announced. Just wondering.
No, Brokaw, YOU (and your ilk) turned the country against the media.
I don’t hate the press, I simply ignore them.
When they start reporting the news in a responsible way and at least try to be neutral I will watch again...
I’m not holding my breath for it to happen any time soon...
Sorry, Tom, Trump just pointed out that the fake stream media had no clothes, but you’re the ones who decided to go naked against the truth in the first place. Ya’ll made a deliberate, conscious decision to go all in against Trump, abandoning all pretense of objectivity, including unleashing a tsunami of fabricated “news” and propaganda.
And you lost. But not against Trump, but against the people themselves who’ve easily seen through your lies and have tuned you out. You made your bed and now you have to lie in it.
Naturally ya’ll will blame everyone else but yourselves. But you better get used to it: the fake stream media is no longer a significant factor in establishing what people believe. That’s why conventional broadcast political ads no longer work, and why the smart candidates are no longer wasting their money on fake stream media ads, but are instead turning to the new media.