Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The Credible Press: An Autopsy

Exhibit A is the recent revelation by the Media Research Center that throughout 2017 and 2018, 90 percent of the coverage of the President by the nation's three largest television networks was negative, despite an off-the-rails successful economy.

Even more disturbing is the fact that many of Trump's accomplishments involve causes the American left, and the liberal mainstream media, supposedly hold dear: record low unemployment for minorities; the winding down of long-standing wars; prison and sentencing reform; and proposals to protect the children of illegal immigrants.

The media landscape is so littered with partisan misinformation that an entire genre of "Fact checking" websites have sprung up to do the media's job for them.

Despite the network's popularity, it is but a cell in a much larger media organism.

Throw in the massive reach of left-leaning print media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and countless local newspapers and you have what any sane person would consider a liberal monopoly on America's political dialog.

What's worse it that these days the media freely flaunt their bias and in the same breath bemoan their low trustworthiness ratings among the American public.

Just days ago more than 1,000 media professionals lost their jobs.

https://spectator.org/the-credible-press-an-autopsy/

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