Results 1 to 2 of 2
Like Tree1Likes

Thread: Media To Trump Voters: You’re Uneducated And Deplorable

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

  1. #1
    Senior Member lorrie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    Redondo Beach, California
    Posts
    6,765

    Media To Trump Voters: You’re Uneducated And Deplorable

    Media To Trump Voters: You’re Uneducated And Deplorable

    Mainstream journalism's contempt will lead to its funeral.



    November 16, 2016 at 3:04pm

    I have, in the past, called NBC’s Chuck Todd the Ryan Seacrest of politics. (The difference is that American Idol is a serious talent show and Meet the Press doesn’t have judges.)

    After watching the post-election Meet the Press, I now believe Seacrest actually is more erudite — at least in understanding real people — than Todd.

    It took an editor of Progressive Farmer magazine, Chris Clayton, to explain that rural Americans resent (I’m paraphrasing) being told they’re uneducated because they might not have a college degree.

    “Every time you heard about these polls, you had heard that educated white voters were, were going for [Democrat Hillary] Clinton, while people, with — without college degrees or had no college, supported [Republican Donald] Trump. I think they took some of these things that were said over and over throughout the last four, five months of the campaign, also very personally themselves. That rural America is not uneducated, even though maybe there are fewer people with college degrees than there might be in the metropolitan areas.”

    As millennials might say: “Duh!”

    Todd played the clip and then said this: “That stung me because I, when we would say these things, it was an academic exercise. But the minute he said it, I was like, ‘Oh, my, my late father would’ve kicked me in the rear for that.'”

    It’s not just Todd.

    But he’s symptomatic of most of the mainstream media. It used to be that you got your first job in journalism at the entry level. You were promoted from an
    internal copywriting or production position to reporter. As a reporter, your job was, exclusively, to ask who, what, when, where and, if you had enough experience, why.

    Today, you get a degree in journalism or broadcasting and you’re an instant expert.

    There was a time when nobody in the industry cared what anyone under 30 who worked at a media outlet thought because a) they had no life experience to measure against, and, b) they had not yet perfected the art of accurate reporting.

    Today, they all want to be pundits the day they get their first paycheck.

    So you might wonder where all of this “reporting” from the mainstream media has led us?

    The answer is to mainstream journalism’s funeral.

    And the just completed election is Exhibit A of the autopsy.

    I’d like to tell you how smart I am and how my 51 years in the media taught me what I wrote back in July 2015 shortly after Trump announced his run. Except that I’m not quite that smart and, even then, it was clearly foreseeable that he had a shot at the nomination and thus the presidency. At least to someone who grew up in Peoria, Ill., and now practices this trade in Nevada.

    But most “journalists” who live in the blue bubble of Washington, New York and Los Angeles openly sneered because most of those folks almost never talk to real people.

    They don’t get that folks in most of the nation really resent being told we live in “flyover country” and “flyover country” is composed of “uneducated” white males who do not understand that we need to be told how to live by “journalists” who live in the progressive bubble. Or by their elected friends.

    If this is the future of journalism, then you better prepare for life without it.

    Because the very thing that each side accuses the other of — getting their news in an echo chamber — is happening on all sides.

    You don’t believe it? Let’s look at some examples:

    Jeff Bezos — who is a brilliant entrepreneur — bought The Washington Post for $250 million. Not so long ago, that company would have been valued in the billions.

    The New York Times — itself in horrible financial condition — bought The Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion. It sold it in 2013 for $70 million.

    My gut feeling is that years of left-wing preaching by both of these news outlets reduced their value not because of all the technical reasons they immediately spout but because the average reader who just voted for Donald Trump no longer feels he or she needs to listen to punks tell them how “uneducated” they are.

    ABC, CBS and NBC are next.

    You can only keep feeding feces to folks for so long before the folks discover what’s really in the can. I’m pretty sure this election was the line in the sand for most people.

    http://www.westernjournalism.com/med...te-deplorable/

  2. #2
    Senior Member Judy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Posts
    55,883
    What's happened to the American Media is appalling and disgusting and we could try to blame the owners or the shareholders, but it really boils down to the employees who write the trash articles and host the buffoonery shows. Their toxic combination of ignorance and arrogance brought down an entire industry.
    A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
    Save America, Deport Congress! - Judy

    Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn

Similar Threads

  1. Replies: 0
    Last Post: 10-27-2016, 02:49 PM
  2. Replies: 1
    Last Post: 09-12-2016, 09:11 PM
  3. Replies: 0
    Last Post: 08-11-2016, 12:08 AM
  4. Elites and media really hate Donald Trump's voters
    By patbrunz in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 12-26-2015, 11:37 PM
  5. Replies: 5
    Last Post: 07-10-2015, 09:43 PM

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •