Agreed Kam! Moreover, I don't think, at least for me, that we had a true handle on how deep and so thoroughly infiltrated the corruption is between the Elitist Establishment media, the lobbyists/Wall Street; and the DC Beltway crony politicians! "I/We" knew it existed, but just not to the level that has now been exposed!
I also don't think that the mainstream media will ever be trusted again; or at least until there's some attempt to correct the problem. No matter, it's damaged and will take a while for that correction to take place, if it ever does. On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Kamakazee <[email protected]> wrote: > You’d think that Trump’s victory – the one we all discounted too far in > advance – would lead to a certain newfound humility in the political press. > But of course that’s not how it works. To us, speaking broadly, our > diagnosis was still basically correct. The demons were just stronger than > we realized. > > This is all a “whitelash,” you see. Trump voters are racist and sexist, so > there must be more racists and sexists than we realized. Tuesday night’s > outcome was not a *logic-driven rejection of a deeply flawed candidate > named Clinton* > <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-privately-concedes-in-phone-call-to-donald-trump/>; > no, it was a primal scream against fairness, equality, and progress. Let > the new tantrums commence! > That’s the fantasy, the idea that if we mock them enough, call them racist > enough, they’ll eventually shut up and get in line. It’s similar to how > media Twitter works, a system where people who dissent from the proper > framing of a story are attacked by mobs of smugly incredulous pundits. > Journalists exist primarily in a world where people can get shouted down > and disappear, which informs our attitudes toward all disagreement. > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable- > smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
