Is media coverage of Trump biased?*
I think that it’s a fair question to be asked in a Presidential election.
Let’s try this in regards to media
coverage especially if you’re undecided. For the sake of this argument about
media bias pretend that there’s a new candidate that burst upon the scene and
got elected President. Take any candidate names out of the equation. (I know
that this will be impossible for some people.) After the election you learn the
following about the President:
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Hadn’t paid any taxes for decades.
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Incited people to violence.
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Cheated sub-contractors out of payment.
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Owes hundreds of millions to bankers.
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Was caught talking about how they had sexually
assaulted women because of their wealth and status.
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Then women came forward claiming to have been
sexually assaulted by him just as he described.
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Cheated openly on at least one of several wives.
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Had multiple bankruptcies.
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Wouldn’t release their tax returns.
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Had multiple failed business ventures.
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They had been involved in thousands of lawsuits
and settled some out of court including settling racial discrimination charges
out of court.
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Being sued for scamming people out of money for
a false educational school.
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Are currently being sued.
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Had a cameo in a soft pornography video.
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Okayed referring to their daughter as being a
piece of ass.
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Allowed for their private airplane to be used
for a nude photo shoot of their spouse to be.
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Praised the leadership of foreign dictators.
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Their name came up on FBI wire taps of mafia
members under investigation.
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Lost a billion dollars.
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Have financial interests in the Middle East,
China and Russia.
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Operated a charity illegally.
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They were far less rich than they claimed.
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Claimed to buy politicians and was then accused
of bribing elected officials.
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Had zero qualifications for public office.
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Has never served the interests of working people
This list could be a lot longer but
I’m going to stop here. If you found out all the above AFTER the election was
over would you blame media for not reporting information like this? Would you
think that journalists had done their due diligence in reporting on the
candidate? Would you be upset that they had not done their job and that you had
a right as a citizen and voter to know these things about a candidate for the
highest office in the land?
Traditional news outlets are going
away. Print media is in decline because it’s well…print media in a digital age.
News is now about market share, revenue dollars and entertainment. That’s why
we have “talking heads.” We still have thousands of hard working journalists
doing their jobs. Headlines sell advertising.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is in the
news but stories about her current activities are lost in the headlines that
Trump is constantly generating. He’s a man who has said bad publicity sells.
Hillary Clinton has been under the media spotlight for decades with every
aspect of her personal and private life being taken apart on the public stage.
She’s been investigated over and over again along with her husband Bill
Clinton. They’ve been taken to court. She’s been called before committees. All
this scrutiny and no convictions from the people that hate her guts and have
been in charge of her investigations. With the exception of the 33,000 deleted
emails (investigated by the FBI—no charges) there’s nothing new. The Benghazi
inquiry by 8 Republican committees has gone on for 4 years now. No charges from
people dedicated to taking her down. What we’re seeing now predominantly from
alternate news sites is the same stuff that we’ve been hearing about for decades
recycled, reformatted and presented as new.
Trump missed all this scrutiny.
Digging into his past and current actions has taken place on a much compressed
time frame and he has only served to bring more scrutiny on himself in
instances where he decided not to cooperate like in releasing his taxes or
working with other Republicans.
Trump has decided to try and make
former President Bill Clinton news again but we’ve already been there and done
that in the news for months on end. None of this is new news. It isn’t bias not
to hash through all of this stuff again.
A couple of billion dollars of free
media publicity during the primaries helped Trump win the Republican
nomination. He was calling in interviews sometimes doing them minutes apart. He
was a sideshow, a carnival barker talking about the size of his penis. Now
though he’s in the Bigs. Different ball game. But he’s still an attraction.
Here’s the problem with Trump. On
Tuesday 10/11/16 He told his supporters at a rally in Panama City, Florida to
be sure and vote November 28th. This kind of statement from a Presidential
candidate is newsworthy. Did he misspeak? Probably, but with Trump it’s hard to
know, based upon his lack of knowledge concerning the mechanics of how our
government and the real world in general is supposed to work. But this is mild
compared to how he usually ends up in the news with his actions and words. He’s
a walking, talking media attraction on a regular basis—at times daily.
For their media support Trump, along
with his some of his supporters, are depending upon a traitor like Snowden,
fugitive Julian Assagne of Wikileaks and the Russian hackers at the direction
of Putin to help out with “source material” for his campaign. Why is that?
Because all of these people are trustworthy, honorable and are above corrupting
any of the data in their hands that they’ve had for months? Why would the “True
Patriot Americans for Justice” or whatever super patriotic name they claim and
Fox news trust people like these before their own citizens? Their conspiracy
beliefs are so deep that the foreigners they say we can’t trust are the ones
that they go to now for information. Trump passed along “information” gathered
from these sources towards the end of the debate. Guess what? The information
was wrong!
Had that long list in the beginning
had Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name as the person that committed those acts
Republicans and Trump would be screaming that citizens had the right to know. Citizens
do have the right to know even if it’s one of the Global Elite like Donald
Trump.
*Not all media. The alternate hate
Clinton trust no one but us Alt Right news conspiracy media are excluded
because they’re fiction sites.