Trump triumphs over self discrediting media

Jeffrey Lord:

Interesting.

The Washington Post’s Philip Bump (full disclosure my former CNN colleague) is one of the first -- or maybe so far the only -- journalist at a mainstream media outlet to get what is seriously disquieting news for the mainstreamers. Here’s Phil’s headline:

Trump’s already largely won his war against the media

Phil begins his story this way:

The choice that President Trump asks America to make is a simple one and one that he’s demanded since he jumped into the presidential race. Who are you going to believe, he asks: An industry of people whose jobs depend on presenting factually accurate information about what’s happening in the world — or me?

And from the outset, we’ve seen how his supporters answer that question. They believe him.

Well, okay. Phil has something here but right off the bat he illustrates exactly -- and I do mean exactly -- the media’s problem.

Notice the way he describes the media? Like this: “An industry of people whose jobs depend on presenting factually accurate information about what’s happening in the world…”

Not to put too fine a point on this, but the exact reason for the media’s problem is precisely because millions of Americans believe the mainstream media (that would include, ahem, Phil’s own Washington Post) is not reporting“factually accurate information about what’s happening in the world..”

To the contrary, in two back-to-back presidencies -- the first of a far-left liberal Democratic Party president and the second of a populist/conservative Republican Party president -- the flat-out ideological bias of the mainstream media coverage was and is vividly in play. Which in turn has provided Trump with the easy pickings of low-hanging media bias fruit.

Examples of how liberal media bias works are, thankfully, well out there. It is the main focus 24/7 right here at NewsBusters and the Media Research Center to faithfully record those never-ending examples of liberal bias for the record, producing a figurative warehouse filled to the figurative roof of how this bias works.
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My thought is that this will have a very serious impact on the course of the Trump White House. For eight years, the Obama White House had the mainstream media in their pocket. And when he left to be succeeded by Donald Trump the liberal media lost their collective mind. I noted back in February in this space, just the simple difference in the way Time magazine treated Obama and Trump after each was named Time’s “Person of the Year” in 2008 and 2016 respectively. The Obama coverage was almost hagiography, the Trump coverage dark, almost sinister.

At this point, the media has thrown everything up to and including the media version of the kitchen sink at Trump. He has, as he said he would, fought back - on Twitter, on television, at rallies and on and on. So now, to their amazement, its the media - not the President - that is losing. And they are beginning to realize it. The question is…

Will they do anything about it?

There is much more including specific examples of how media bias works.  I think one of the problems is that those engaged in the bias sometimes think that they are being fair when they are not.  They have a blindness to point of views different from their own.   There is also a visceral animous toward none liberals.  That explains their hostility toward people as divergent as Bush and Trump.  They are not liberal Democrats so there is no need to treat them fairly.