Breitbart has tapped into general distrust of the American mass media ... which few Americans take seriously anymore. Look at the lead article on Breitbart right now. It's not wrong. But you will almost never see such critical argument posted in traditional mass media.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/15/post-election-poll-78-percent-believe-media-coverage-biased/I was watching the American mass media coverage of the election (CNN, MSNBC), and it was surreal how delusional and confused the broadcasters were. They were living in a bubble world of empty dogmas. CNN was still fighting to claim the election was still alive up to the moment where Trump openly claimed the presidency, upon which Wolf Blitzer frantically made a hurried announcement stating they would now call the race. That Thomas Frank article I posted earlier is bang-on right about the media's detached and robotic sanctimony.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-white-house-hillary-clinton-liberals"Clinton’s supporters among the media didn’t help much, either. It always struck me as strange that such an unpopular candidate enjoyed such robust and unanimous endorsements from the editorial and opinion pages of the nation’s papers, but it was the quality of the media’s enthusiasm that really harmed her. With the same arguments repeated over and over, two or three times a day, with nuance and contrary views all deleted, the act of opening the newspaper started to feel like tuning in to a Cold War propaganda station. Here’s what it consisted of:
Hillary was virtually without flaws. She was a peerless leader clad in saintly white, a super-lawyer, a caring benefactor of women and children, a warrior for social justice.
Her scandals weren’t real.
The economy was doing well / America was already great.
Working-class people weren’t supporting Trump.
And if they were, it was only because they were botched humans. Racism was the only conceivable reason for lining up with the Republican candidate.
How did the journalists’ crusade fail? The fourth estate came together in an unprecedented professional consensus. They chose insulting the other side over trying to understand what motivated them. They transformed opinion writing into a vehicle for high moral boasting. What could possibly have gone wrong with such an approach?"
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