Having utterly disgraced themselves over the course of the US Presidential Election campaigns, one would have hoped the world’s media would now be engaging in some humble self-examination to understand where they went so catastrophically wrong and how they might improve their reporting in future and thus save their entire industry from oblivion.<\/p>\n
But then again these are media types, and they are pathologically incapable of any such action. \u00a0Consider this<\/a> from the BBC:<\/p>\n Despite their cordiality, Mr Trump has vowed to dismantle much of President Obama’s legacy. That includes Obamacare, the act extending medical insurance to more Americans than ever before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Evil Trump, eh? \u00a0Undoing The Messiah’s generosity of providing more medical insurance than ever before! \u00a0But why not mention that Obamacare is fast shaping up to be an unworkable disaster\u00a0and people have been hit with skyrocketting premiums – something which almost certainly would have helped persuade them to vote for Trump? \u00a0Ah, because that would detract from the narrative, the same shameless narrative that has been playing since Trump announced his intention to run.<\/p>\n This excerpt was taken from a report on the anti-Trump protests, which the media are falling over themselves to cover. \u00a0They are working overtime to generative the narrative that Trump is deeply unpopular and his policies are forcing people to come out in protest, even though their numbers are miniscule and they represent the lunatic fringe of the American Left. \u00a0I expect the media will keep this up and before Trump even takes office he will be described as “the most unpopular President in history”, “embattled”, and “under fire”; his policies will be called “controversial” if a single student at Berkeley complains; and headlines will read “Is Trump’s Presidency failing?”<\/p>\n I have every confidence\u00a0that the American people will turn away from their media in disgust, as they did during the campaign, leaving them to\u00a0face the economic consequences. \u00a0Trump and his administration should automatically disregard any criticism of his policies or Presidency based on polling data or media mouthpieces, and should remind them at every opportunity how they utterly failed the American people by the coverage of the election.<\/p>\n And back home, Theresa May should end the BBC’s charter immediately and let them figure out how to make money selling this garbage instead of forcing people to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having utterly disgraced themselves over the course of the US Presidential Election campaigns, one would have hoped the world’s media would now be engaging in some humble self-examination to understand where they went so catastrophically wrong and how they might … Continue reading