Monday, December 16, 2024

 News in the News? 

     When a presidential candidate is despised by the press, but wins the election anyway, isn't that news? 

     Tim Graham of Media Research Center said this election revealed the starkest contrast in treatment of the two candidates ever recorded. Coverage of Kamala Harris was 78 percent positive and of Donald Trump 85 percent negative. (such as "he is Hitler.") 

     We can't think of any governing action that Trump and old Hitler might have in common. I read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." 

     Our liberal media are failing badly, and shamefully. Graham wrote, "No longer do the media define success by accuracy or fairness, but by whether they influence electoral outcomes." 

     Before the election, a writer in New York magazine wrote that a Trump victory would expose the media's dwindling relevance. She quoted a media executive, "A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form." 

     Evidence: Supported by wealthy donors and corporations, Democrats spent many millions more on the election than Republicans. 

     Nick Eicher of WORLD magazine wrote, "If voters read the coverage, or disbelieve or ignore it, and still conclude that Trump is qualified, the media has failed - and the Trump victory renders that failure undeniable, perhaps fatal."

     He adds, "I've got a revolutionary concept: news in the news pages."

          Jimmy - once a journalist 

  

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