{"id":96760,"date":"2020-10-24T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-media-promised-to-do-better-after-trumps-win-instead-they-got-worse\/"},"modified":"2020-10-24T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:48:29","slug":"the-media-promised-to-do-better-after-trumps-win-instead-they-got-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-media-promised-to-do-better-after-trumps-win-instead-they-got-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"#The media promised to do better after Trump’s win \u2014 instead, they got worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The media<\/a> promised to do better after Trump’s win \u2014 instead, they got worse<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The media tackled what was happ<\/a>ening in the summer and fall of 2016 like the third-string of the New York Jets. They blew it. They whiffed. They could not conceive of a Donald Trump victory, and so they portrayed this event as a near-impossibility. To their credit, they admitted it, and they vowed to do better next time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it\u2019s that we\u2019ve got to do a much better job of being on the road, out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than the people we talk to \u2026 and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world,\u201d New York Times editor Dean Baquet admitted after the election.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s Van Jones dubbed the world that the most vocal Democrats live in \u201cthe resistance bubble\u201d and criticized Hillary Clinton\u2019s failed election strategy. \u201cIt turns out, \u2018You suck. Vote for me,\u2019 is not a good slogan. It\u2019s not a good bumper sticker,\u201d he said on a podcast two years ago, while urging progressives to open their minds to alternative ideas. \u201cWe have to build up the capacity to hold a lot of different views,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t have to say, \u2018You are a bad person. You are a bigot. You are a sexist. You are a homophobe. Therefore, you must agree with me.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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After the 2016 election, New York Times editor Dean Baquet admitted that his reporters needed to do a better job getting out of the city, and talk to different people.<\/span>Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It sounded promising. But what did the media do after the dust settled and Trump geared up for reelection? Like a guy who comes out of rehab and heads straight for the nearest martini lounge, they relapsed. They couldn\u2019t help themselves. They went back to putting 99 percent of their efforts into telling themselves a story they all believed: that Donald Trump was not just a horrible Republican president \u2014 aren\u2019t they all? \u2014 but an actual threat to the Republic: Fifth Avenue Hitler, Benito Trumpolini, Orange-White nationalist. Virtually every national story they told the public ignored heartland concerns and came straight from the point of view of liberal Manhattan \u2014 Fantasy Island. To the media, Russia collusion is just about to be proven after four years of trying, Trump\u2019s tweets matter more than Trump\u2019s economy, and a pandemic that hit harder in Western Europe is all his fault.<\/p>\n

Instead of focusing on real Americans who back the police, hate anarchists and don\u2019t believe in forever lockdowns, the media dubbed<\/a> arson and murder \u201cmostly peaceful protests\u201d (CNN). \u201cHelp me find Trump\u2019s \u2018anarchists\u2019 in Portland,\u201d echoed<\/a> Nicholas Kristof of the Times, after two months of street demonstrations that included widespread vandalism, clashes between Antifa mobs and the police, and attacks on the city\u2019s federal courthouse. The media mercilessly ridiculed red states for supposedly not taking the coronavirus seriously, and eight months into it, it\u2019s still the blue states<\/a> that have suffered by far the most casualties. (In the blue states, death rates per 100,000 residents are 40 percent higher than in red states, according to an AEI study<\/a>. Of the first 210,000 deaths in the US from COVID-19, only 33,000 took place in red states.)<\/p>\n

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In 2020, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof doubted the existence of \u201canarchists\u201d in Portland, even as violence swept the city.<\/span>James Keivom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week, even the most cynical observer of the media \u2014 that would be me \u2014 has to be dumbfounded at the next-level failure by most elite journalists to report on the volcanic explosion of Biden family scandals revealed by The Post\u2019s blockbuster scoop last week. To date, Team Biden hasn\u2019t refuted any aspect of the story, except a mealy-mouthed denial that there was a formal meeting between Joe Biden and Ukrainian energy exec Vadym Pozharskyi, though they admit<\/a> there might have been an informal one. The media and their bros in Silicon Valley set to work burying the facts like mobsters in the woods, but true stories cannot be given the Jimmy Hoffa treatment. The Post\u2019s traffic is through the roof, and Biden\u2019s lead in top battlegrounds has softened. As other outlets expand upon and confirm The Post\u2019s reporting, Democrats are sounding a lot less cocksure than they were two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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Scandals with the Biden family continue to be ignored by mainstream media.<\/span>Teresa Kroeger<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once, after getting it so wrong, the media vowed to reconnect with the people. Now their trick is to scream \u201cdisinformation<\/a>\u201d about any information inconvenient to the Bidens. Their new holy cause of dragging a confused old man across the finish line for the purpose of making America weak again will cost them a chunk of the very little trust they have left.<\/p>\n

Kyle Smith is critic-at-large for National Review.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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