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[seer]

No duh!

How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell....

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...t-coast-215048As of 2013, only 7 percent of [journalists] identified as RepublicansThe national media really does work in a bubble

[Cow Poke]

I'm shocked.

[seer]

I'm shocked.

Who knew!

[Mountain Man]

He says that "the knowing-bias charge never added up", but it does. Yes, the media did occasionally cover stories that were negative about Hillary but only after they became too big to ignore and not nearly as voraciously as they covered negative stories about Trump. One of my most vivid memories during the election was Scott Pelley on the CBS Evening News running some blisteringly negative story about the latest media-manufactured Trump "scandal" and following it up with a puff piece about how awesome Hillary's first hundred days as president are going to be.

The mainstream media lives in a bubble, that's for certain, but to claim there is no bias is self-evidently absurd.

[seer]

Interesting:

NY Times reporter admits: Trump is more open with the media than Obama was...

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04...ing-the-media/

[seer]

He says that "the knowing-bias charge never added up", but it does. Yes, the media did occasionally cover stories that were negative about Hillary but only after they became too big to ignore and not nearly as voraciously as they covered negative stories about Trump. One of my most vivid memories during the election was Scott Pelley on the CBS Evening News running some blisteringly negative story about the latest media-manufactured Trump "scandal" and following it up with a puff piece about how awesome Hillary's first hundred days as president are going to be.

The mainstream media lives in a bubble, that's for certain, but to claim there is no bias is self-evidently absurd.

Well it is Politico, they are trying to tell the truth while tying to cover their liberal butts...

[Sparko]

Amazing that Politico would admit it too.

[Terraceth]

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[rogue06]

As of 2013, only 7 percent of [journalists] identified as Republicans

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The media loves to insist on diversity but what they mean is a bunch of people from different ethnic groups with differing sexual orientations who all hold the same point-of-view (hard left).






1. The actual quote, made during a lecture at the Modern Language Association a month after the 1972 election was "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."

[rogue06]

Interesting:

NY Times reporter admits: Trump is more open with the media than Obama was...

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04...ing-the-media/

As I posted a couple months back:

Liberals for the most part ignored how poorly Obama treated the press and the press itself largely smiled and masochistically took what he handed out because he was the Obamessiah and most of it was directed toward conservatives.

Source: WHY IT'LL BE HARD FOR TRUMP TO SURPASS OBAMA'S RECORD OF CHILLING PRESS FREEDOM

Many in the mainstream media are reacting with righteous indignation over comments from a senior Trump adviser suggesting the administration views the traditional media as an opponent. But if we're to take these apostles of press freedom seriously, they should first explain why the Trump Administration is worse than the Obama Administration.

After all, the Obama Administration literally tried imprisoning an uncooperative journalist, monitored journalists' every digital move, and "hammered" at least one challenging reporter with IRS audits.

Let's rewind the tape.

The Obama Administration began with lofty promises of being "the most transparent administration in history." Instead it ended up setting a record, by the Associated Press's count, for denying the most Freedom of Information Act requests.

As the administration's popularity began tumbling early into its first year, the Obama White House declared war on Fox News. The White House director of communications, Anita Dunn, warned they would henceforth treat Fox News "like an opponentthe administration sought to deny Fox News' participation in executive branch news-making events -- which only failed after other networks admirably refused to participate if Fox News were excluded.

As you'll see in the montage above, President Obama blamed Fox News and talk radio for virtually every problem his administration encountered, warning in his waning days that these "domestic propagandists" were far more damaging to America than any interference from hostile powers like Russia.

When Fox News's State Department correspondent, James Rosen, reported accurate information about North Korea leaked by a member of the Obama State Department, Eric Holder ordered his movements to be tracked, his phone records seized, and went "judge shoppingthe Washington Post wrotethe Freedom of the Press Foundation reported. After the Supreme Court rejected Risen's appeal of an earlier order mandating he testify about the source of information he reported, Risen faced jail time.

After an outcry, Holder finally backed down.

The Associated Press experienced similar surveillance. For two months, the Department of Justice tracked 20 AP reporters' calls, ostensibly over their reporting into a Libyan terrorist's failed plot. Why was reporting on a failed plot so threatening? The AP said it was because the administration wanted to announce the news itself.

Obama himself was notorious for granting interviews with journalists whom he knew would treat him gently -- like Steve Kroft. When Obama accidentally exposed himself to a mildly challenging interview with a local reporter in Saint Louis, that reporter was later "hammered" with IRS audits.

With the Obama Administration, the message to the media was always clear: Report negatively about us, and we'll use the powers at our disposal to make you suffer consequences.

If those journalists currently complaining about the Trump Administration found no such fault with the Obama Administration, perhaps it's because they were all too willing to toe the line.



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Now imagine if Trump started tracking a bunch of reporters phone calls, not because they were publishing classified information, but merely because they had published a story that Trump wanted to be the first to release. Or sicced the IRS after reporters who asked tough questions. The howls of outrage would be heard far and wide and those would be the lead stories for days on end as scowling left-wing pundits and politicians would be calling for impeachment.

[Meh Gerbil]

You would do well to not point out this sort of thing.

The absolute best thing that can happen for our country is for the MSM to be completely out of the loop. As they're intent on destroying anything that is noble it is a grace that they spent their time swirling in a vat of mis-information, mis-direction, and horse pOOp. These are not the sort of people you'd want to entrust with anything real or important. You wouldn't want to entrust anything of substance to anyone who actually listens to these animals.

The enemy's intelligence apparatus is fixated on lies.
I ask you: Could you want anything else?

If your liberal friends ask you where you get your news say: "I get all my news from the NYT, NPR, and CNN because they're the only reliable news sources on the planet." Keep these people in the dark, flailing about at phantoms and ghosts. If we do that they'll continue to find themselves amazed at the outcome of national elections - when they're fetal and crying in the corner or hiding in a 'safe space' then they're not out spreading poison.

In short: This media bubble is a reason to rejoice.