I just happened to pass my wife watching Brian Williams on MSNBC. Williams was asking an NBC reporter about the appointment of Steve Bannon by President Elect Trump. Specifically, Williams asked if there is any sign that Trump understands the "depth of the protest" against the nomination.
Let's stop here. The "depth of the protest" is in interesting phrase. It assumes that someone other than the usual loud mouths in the media and among the Democrats have said something, anything, about Bannon. That's a faulty assumption, however. The Washington talking heads have commented, but the real people across America have had nothing to say on the subject. So once again, the media is telling the American people that the views of the media pundits and professional Washington politicians matter while the views of the American people don't. But let's move on.
It was the response to Williams' question that really caught my attention. The MSNBC "reporter" told Williams that the Trump interview on Sixty Minutes showed Trump's reaction to the protests regarding Bannon. Time to stop again. Here's what you need to know. Last Friday, Sixty Minutes filmed an interview by Leslie Stahl with Trump and his family. It was shown on Sunday. The Bannon appointment was announced over the weekend, after the Sixty Minutes interview had been completed. Obviously, neither Leslie Stahl nor Donald Trump knew about any reaction to the Bannon appointment which had not yet happened. So there I was watching Brian Williams nod somberly in response to a reporter who obviously had no idea what he was talking about.
The reality is that the mainstream media is still fooling itself. It still thinks that it can say whatever it wants and no one will notice the lack of truth in the report. It used to be that the reports were just a little slanted. These days, however, many of the reports are in complete denial of reality. The problem for the media, however, is that people notice.
Let's stop here. The "depth of the protest" is in interesting phrase. It assumes that someone other than the usual loud mouths in the media and among the Democrats have said something, anything, about Bannon. That's a faulty assumption, however. The Washington talking heads have commented, but the real people across America have had nothing to say on the subject. So once again, the media is telling the American people that the views of the media pundits and professional Washington politicians matter while the views of the American people don't. But let's move on.
It was the response to Williams' question that really caught my attention. The MSNBC "reporter" told Williams that the Trump interview on Sixty Minutes showed Trump's reaction to the protests regarding Bannon. Time to stop again. Here's what you need to know. Last Friday, Sixty Minutes filmed an interview by Leslie Stahl with Trump and his family. It was shown on Sunday. The Bannon appointment was announced over the weekend, after the Sixty Minutes interview had been completed. Obviously, neither Leslie Stahl nor Donald Trump knew about any reaction to the Bannon appointment which had not yet happened. So there I was watching Brian Williams nod somberly in response to a reporter who obviously had no idea what he was talking about.
The reality is that the mainstream media is still fooling itself. It still thinks that it can say whatever it wants and no one will notice the lack of truth in the report. It used to be that the reports were just a little slanted. These days, however, many of the reports are in complete denial of reality. The problem for the media, however, is that people notice.
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