1. I was listening to the Breitbart Radio podcasts with Peter Schweitzer and his expose on the McConnell-Chao-China corruption. They were wondering why the story has gotten ZERO traction in the MSM given Schweitzer's success with Clinton Cash.
They mentioned that Politico picked it up this morning and ran a story on Chao's abuse of office to help her father appear power-connected to increase his influence in Chinese business circles. They ran Chinese-language interviews of Chao and her father using Department of Transportation symbols. They talked about the explosion of growth in the elder Chao's shipping company since his daughter joined the Trump Cabinet.
They compared this to the candidate Blankenship in West Virginia that Trump tweeted about yesterday. They remarked that Blankenship jumped to the lead because he ran ads bashing McConnell based on the Schweitzer reporting, and that has resonated with the conservative base that hates McConnell. They said that more candidates should run on opposing McConnell.
Their hope is that if more news outlets turn on McConnell and Chao for putting China's interests (and their personal fortunes) ahead of America's interests, that this could be a first step to reining in the excesses of our corrupted leaders.
2. The liberal MSM is insulated from the consequences of their corruption of the profession of journalism because they are being propped up by billionaires like Soros. Only a few rint newsrooms have seen wholesale layoffs and some secondary broadcast outlets have had staff reductions.
If true market forces were allowed to operate on news organizations, they would be forced to change their business models. In reaction to the story of Don Lemon declaring that CNN will no longer cover Trump rallies live, putting ideology over ratings and market share, Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center remarked that at some point the stockholders of the media corporations will have to demand its management perform their fiduciary responsibilities to make a profit or resign.
I doubt this will ever happen, but it's also interesting to see how long deep liberal pockets will be willing to keep the media afloat despite crashing ratings. How long will the MSM be able to keep the Lemons of the business employed? Knocking out a few talking heads might cause some to reexamine their business models.
Naaaahh…
-PJ
but it’s also interesting to see how long deep liberal pockets will be willing to keep the media afloat despite crashing ratings
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I would imagine that the deeper their indebtedness gets with these patrons, the more they will be called to do their bidding. At some point, a critical mass will hit where the ROI will fall too low to justify the investment due to influence being destroyed by lack of credibility and lower exposure/market shares.