{"id":36862,"date":"2018-08-20T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36862"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:32:38","slug":"in-monsters-we-trust-us-mainstream-media-no-friend-of-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36862","title":{"rendered":"In Monsters We Trust: US Mainstream Media No Friend of the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Monsters We Trust: US Mainstream Media No Friend of the American People<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Over the course of his turbulent presidency, Donald Trump has accused various media companies, with special\u00a0attention<\/a>\u00a0reserved for CNN, as being purveyors of \u2018fake news.\u2019 In one early-morning Tweet last year, he slammed the \u201cFAKE NEWS media\u201d as the \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, over\u00a0300 US newspapers<\/a>\u00a0ran editorials on the same day \u2013 an event in itself that points to some high degree of collusion and groupthink – denouncing Trump’s insensitive portrayal of them, as if the notion that journalists were not in the same sleaze league as lawyers, politicians and professional con artists never crossed anyone\u2019s mind before. Even the peace-loving Mahatma Gandhi recommended \u201cequality for everyone except reporters and photographers.\u201d<\/p>\n

But is the MSM really an \u201cenemy of the people?\u201d<\/p>\n

First, it cannot be denied that the US media, taken in all its wholesomeness, has been overwhelmingly consistent in its \u2018style\u2019 of reporting on Donald Trump, the 45th\u00a0POTUS. And by consistent I mean unprecedentedly critical, misleading and outright aggressive in its guerilla coverage of him. If one is not convinced by the gloom-and-doom Trump stories featured daily in the Yahoo News feed, then a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0by the Media Research Center (MRC) should do the job. From January 1 through April 30, evening news coverage of the US leader\u00a0–\u00a0courtesy of ABC, CBS and NBC – were 90 percent negative, which is pretty much the same incredible average revealed by MRC one year earlier.<\/p>\n

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The study looked at every one of the 1,065 network evening news stories about Trump and his administration during the first four months of 2018. Total negative news time devoted to Trump: 1,774 minutes, or about one-third of all evening news airtime. That\u2019s pretty much the definition of\u00a0a circle jerk.<\/p>\n

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In Monsters We Trust: US Mainstream Media No Friend of the American People Over the course of his turbulent presidency, Donald Trump has accused various media companies, with special\u00a0attention\u00a0reserved for CNN, as being purveyors of \u2018fake news.\u2019 In one early-morning Tweet last year, he slammed the \u201cFAKE NEWS media\u201d as the \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,7844,2779,496,512,15947,8203,1920],"class_list":["post-36862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-media","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-robert-bridge","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-us-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36863,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862\/revisions\/36863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}