The media covers the important news, ……With a pillow until it stops moving..

The anger against the mainstream media is deep-seated. And, as difficult as it is for many to accept, much of the anger is justified.

A piece by Matt Latimer in Politico, goes on to make the case that the national media has long held a double standard in its news coverage, which is obvious to anyone on the right side of the aisle.


Americans don’t trust the media any more because the media is, by its own definition, partisan and therefore untrustworthy. They are admitted Democrats, Socialists, anti-Individual, ..anti-Trump so it goes without saying they cannot and must not ever be trusted. Not ever.
Americans know from bitter first-hand experience that there’s an agenda behind nearly every story, in every section of the Times: a crack about Trump here, a dig at the Right there. Even ESPN, which used to be a sports network, has gotten into the act, politicizing sports to its own detriment and to the likely ruination of the NFL. Nearly every mainstream media outlet takes as its standpoint a position that is well left of center, at which point its opponents (for so reporters think of those I call Real Americans) can only be deemed far-right. It’s a deliberate slander, of course, and everybody knows it.
What to do, what to do?


Of course the first step is for the heads of the major media outlets to actually care about the problem. Despite a few half-hearted efforts during the aftershocks of the 2016 election to try to better understand the Trump voters that many reporters didn’t know even existed, most really do not care.
There’s very little incentive in today’s tribal climate to try to offer a more balanced picture on various issues or to hear out the other side—to have a frame of mind that accepts that maybe tax cuts can help spur job growth, or maybe the Obama administration did make some mistakes, or maybe every single thing Trump does and says isn’t by definition an outrage requiring days of focus and attention, or maybe federal regulations have in some cases gone too far, or maybe there are other smart, well-meaning Republicans who aren’t Susan Collins or Lindsey Graham.

That’s advice they won’t heed because they cannot heed it; to do so would be to betray what they consider to be their real job: pushing a Leftist agenda, boosting Democrats, and hoping like hell they’ll be offered a job in the next Democrat administration. Because if you can’t reward your friends, punish your enemies, and improve your own material circumstances, what’s the media for, anyway?

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