The Real 'Fake News' is the Mainstream Media

It's been a little more than a month since an election that was the kind of seismic event in our politics that only happens once a century. It sent shock waves through the national political establishment and pretty much any other group of prognosticators that had been banking on an easy Clinton win. No one felt the sting more than the mainstream media. The morning after the election, anchors and columnists were making a collective stammering Act of Contrition about just how 'wrong' they were about the election - and the electorate.

But in the month since, the so-called mainstream media have, as if in coordinated fashion, executed a transparent strategy to bludgeon the President-elect at every turn. Republicans, Conservatives, Independents and the majority of Americans who actually want to give Donald Trump a chance to lead will likely see through this anti-Trump propaganda campaign, but perhaps a review of their strategy is instructive at this point.

Media outlets have again shown they are doubling down on the same strategy that has driven their own approval ratings close to - dare I say - Congressional territory. That's right. Survey after survey finds the same media that has made beating up conservatives, Republicans, and religious institutions an industry has seen their tactics boomerang on them. Even actor Denzel Washington blasted the media last week saying that, "One of the effects of "too much information is the need to be first, not even to be true anymore."

Hope for better isn't a strategy and change isn't coming. Here's the anti-Trump plan of attack in all its banality. Some of these elements will have a shelf life. Some will be part of a prolonged effort. The strategy has several key components that have quickly taken shape over the last few weeks.

First, they are advancing a strategy of attempting to tie the President-elect and his team to the so-called 'alt-right' and neo-Nazi, white supremacist lunatics. Despite Trump and his Transition Team issuing multiple statements denouncing the activities of a number of groups, the media still provided hours of coverage to small pockets of hate groups that used the election as a recruiting tool.

A sub-component to this was advancing a message that the country was in turmoil in the days after the election because of widespread protests against the newly-elected President. Even Fox News put a graphic on the screen that proclaimed there was "Anarchy in America." Again, more sensationalized information that only bares a faint resemblance to the truth.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbasile/2016/12/12/the-real-fake-news-is-the-mainstream-media/#3e5644b16a5b

got that right!
Just look at the last Election!
Boy ain't they shot themselves and Hillary in the Foot!

it obvious to me that msnbc, cbs, and abc are arm's of the liberal

party.....THERE IS NO NEWS JUST ONE SIDED LIBERAL PROPAGANDA.....THEY HAVE

SCREWED THIS COUNTRY.....

lets give them an Award!

The Democrat National Socialist Party.

Yes. I disliked Hillary from the beginning, but watching so many in the media abuse their positions to lie, confuse, and manipulate people into voting for her just strengthened my desire for her to not win.

unfortunately we are at a time where people believe and stock up on the 'news' which shares their bias in its interpretation. I do miss when the news was expected to be 'just the facts' and not all the interpretation and paraphrasing,,,,


but such is technology, give more people voices to share more misinformation with no real recourse or standards

Insisting that all "mainstream news" is the source of fake news, is an example of suckering oneself with fake news.

One thing in particular that seems to be happening with the current "fadified" worry over fake news, is that so many people are jumping right past the factual details about it, and using the IDEA of it, as an excuse to ignore real information, and to promote their existing prejudices.

This is kind of ironic.

I mean

So basically...opinion.

And how is this pointed out?
Copy and pasted and linked for people to gather around and discuss and disseminate further?

Too funny.

But that's just your opinion.

Everything is based on an opinion of someone. An editor. a director, a lawmaker, you, me. Everything is opinion, interpretation, and edit by someone and the shite rolls down hill

that Stuff is so liquid,it doesn't roll,it runs,something like a Mudslide!

Well ... I only have a Trump Allergy .. not Lung Cancer I am hiding with Pneumonia.

Since my dog ate my homework there is no way I can be prepared for a press conference.

After all, it is the White Supremist that beat up a white girls over the 'N' word and the 'BS; word .. and all the other alphabet words.

If there was no 'N' word in the Casablanca then Clinton would have her turn simply cause she is not the 'T' word.

sumbuddie wear blind sea

Lol,and you have realized this only now?

90% of mainstream media,if not 100, is total bullshiit....& manipulated....& it's been going on like this for ages....& who controls & manipuates the media & every other authority globally?? Yes the ones above any other