{"id":60045,"date":"2016-08-24T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60045"},"modified":"2016-08-22T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:31:47","slug":"our-loathsome-media-here-and-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60045","title":{"rendered":"Our Loathsome Media – Here And Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog has always been dedicated to the idea that the mainstream media is a PR firm for the Democrat party nationally, and the DFL in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While there are capable, honest reporters in the Twin Cities and nationally who do make a level effort to cover the news rather than paint Democrat toenails and safeguard their dinner reservations at Brothers, it’s this blog’s considered opinion that the American media has long since ceased being a “check and balance” on anyone but conservatives and the GOP.<\/p>\n

It’s been much in the news this past week.<\/p>\n

Michael Goodwin at the\u00a0NYPost\u00a0<\/em>notes the extent to which the mainstream media has become, without no hyperbole whatsoever, an arm of Hillary Clinton’s campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A recent article by its media reporter, Jim Rutenberg, whom I know and like, began this way: \u201cIf you\u2019re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation\u2019s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?\u201d<\/p>\n

Whoa, Nellie. The clear assumption is that many reporters see Trump that way, and it is note\u00adworthy that no similar question is raised about Clinton, whose scandals are deserving only of \u201cscrutiny.\u201d Rutenberg approvingly cites a leftist journalist who calls one candidate \u201cnormal\u201d and the other \u00ad\u201cabnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton is hardly \u201cnormal\u201d to the 68 percent of Americans who find her dishonest and untrustworthy, though apparently not a single one of those people writes for the Times. Statistically, that makes the Times \u201cabnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, you don\u2019t need to be a \u00addetective to hear echoes in that first paragraph of Clinton speeches and ads, including those featured prominently on the Times\u2019 Web site. In effect, the paper has seamlessly \u00adadopted Clinton\u2019s view as its own, then tries to justify its coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s a bit of bias that has long, deep roots; most of the American media seemed eager to finish for Bill Clinton the job Monica Lewinski started.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, locally, at a Donald Trump rally last week, “protesters” – pro-Democrat agitators – repeatedly attacked, hit and spat on people attending a Donald Trump meeting in Minneapolis. \u00a0You‘d never know if from most of the media<\/a>, as John Gilmore reports:<\/p>\n

But not even I was prepared for what followed: a sustained assault on citizens attempting to leave that venue while Minneapolis police stood by, for the most part. Some performed admirably and to them much credit should be given. Yet it wasn’t nearly enough.<\/p>\n

There were first hand reports of people being spat upon, physically assaulted and some who had their property stolen. There were even reports of people themselves being spray painted. Many of those committing the assaults on white people were identified as black, but certainly not exclusively.<\/p>\n

Minneapolis has become a lawless city, on the verge of becoming yet another Third World City, and last Friday night proved it beyond doubt. Those who have a different political view from the reigning majority were persecuted for simply exercising their constitutional right of assembly.<\/p>\n

Twin Cities media reporting of the night’s events proved a mixed bag. There is no doubt that had the political polarities been reversed the coverage would have been far more extensive, breathless and condemnatory. But because the victims were republicans, much was glossed over. Which is to say, the violence.<\/p>\n

Minnesota media should be ashamed of itself but it doesn’t really possess the capacity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

For the sake of the city’s good, conscientious reporters, I do hope there’s some sort of future out there in writing actual news.<\/p>\n

That future is not with the current legacy news media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog has always been dedicated to the idea that the mainstream media is a PR firm for the Democrat party nationally, and the DFL in Minnesota. While there are capable, honest reporters in the Twin Cities and nationally who do make a level effort to cover the news rather than paint Democrat toenails and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,189,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60046,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60045\/revisions\/60046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}