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The Unbearable Smugness of the Press
Posted on 11/13/16 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 11/13/16 at 2:41 pm
CBS News: LINK /
Of all the articles and TV segments I've watched this past week - and that's a lot - this one "gets it" the best. And the comments section, especially the top comments, are spot-on and very inspirational as well.
Of all the articles and TV segments I've watched this past week - and that's a lot - this one "gets it" the best. And the comments section, especially the top comments, are spot-on and very inspirational as well.
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump’s victory. More than that and more importantly, we also missed the story, after having spent months mocking the people who had a better sense of what was going on.
This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’d be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.
So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.
And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.
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You’d think that Trump’s victory – the one we all discounted too far in advance – would lead to a certain newfound humility in the political press. But of course that’s not how it works. To us, speaking broadly, our diagnosis was still basically correct. The demons were just stronger than we realized.
This is all a “whitelash,” you see. Trump voters are racist and sexist, so there must be more racists and sexists than we realized. Tuesday night’s outcome was not a logic-driven rejection of a deeply flawed candidate named Clinton; no, it was a primal scream against fairness, equality, and progress. Let the new tantrums commence!
That’s the fantasy, the idea that if we mock them enough, call them racist enough, they’ll eventually shut up and get in line. It’s similar to how media Twitter works, a system where people who dissent from the proper framing of a story are attacked by mobs of smugly incredulous pundits. Journalists exist primarily in a world where people can get shouted down and disappear, which informs our attitudes toward all disagreement.
Journalists increasingly don’t even believe in the possibility of reasoned disagreement.
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Out on the road, we forget to ask the right questions. We can’t even imagine the right question. We go into assignments too certain that what we find will serve to justify our biases.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 2:50 pm to Patrick_Bateman
I would like to know who down voted this, please reveal yourself .
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:05 pm to Brazos
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I would like to know who down voted this, please reveal yourself .
Let me reveal a little secret. There is a guy (or 2) who down votes everything from a conservative. If I posted "My name is Zach" I'd get an immediate down vote.
This post was edited on 11/13/16 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:06 pm to Patrick_Bateman
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And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.
yep.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:10 pm to Brazos
This is the third or fourth time it's been posted here so it may be just the Germans police. Frankly I don't think this article can be shared enough. It says everything about what's wrong with politics today, on all sides.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:13 pm to skidry
I figured it had already been posted. Honestly, it was so good, I didn't mind re-posting it.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:34 pm to Patrick_Bateman
To all you guys around 25 and less, do you now understand why the rest of us have harped about the bullshite media for the last twelve years, at least? When I was 25 all you got from the media insinuating a bias from them was just a little smirk or grin to show their bias.
You now see what it has evolved into. Less than 48 hours of Trump winning you have seen a complete 180 on the questions asked of him and the comments made about him by the media. Obama's treatment, well, you've lived it, you've seen it and I can promise you for the next four years it will only get worse for Trump.
Keep your head up and your eyes and ears open. Complacency is your worst enemy if you want to have a say in how all this turns out. Good luck my bambinos
and .
Oh yeah, stay pissed, very pissed at what is going on. Otherwise, somewhere on a short drive down the road, you won't be able to have a say about it for the long run. The other side will see to it.
You now see what it has evolved into. Less than 48 hours of Trump winning you have seen a complete 180 on the questions asked of him and the comments made about him by the media. Obama's treatment, well, you've lived it, you've seen it and I can promise you for the next four years it will only get worse for Trump.
Keep your head up and your eyes and ears open. Complacency is your worst enemy if you want to have a say in how all this turns out. Good luck my bambinos
and .
Oh yeah, stay pissed, very pissed at what is going on. Otherwise, somewhere on a short drive down the road, you won't be able to have a say about it for the long run. The other side will see to it.
This post was edited on 11/13/16 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:36 pm to Patrick_Bateman
They have no humility. It is as simple as that.
Posted on 11/13/16 at 3:45 pm to Patrick_Bateman
The MSM, in this election, revealed who they really are, what they stand for. Reporting the news is second place to being the propaganda outlet for the ones that write their paychecks. The American public should turn the speaker off and let it wither on the vine.
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