The U.S. media better prepare itself for a rough ride for the next 4
years- those elements that aren't willing to grovel and become Trump
sycophants, that is. (I exclude from consideration fascist agitprop and
overtly racist pseudo-media. They are thrilled by Trump's election,
which should tell you how ominous Trump's attainment of presidential
power is.)
Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist who
reacts explosively to any perceived slight. He believes any criticism of
himself at all is grossly "unfair," even "nasty." And he has already
demonstrated repeatedly that he will have no tolerance for media
reportage of him and his regime that displeases him.
During
his campaign, Trump frequently directed vitriol at the media from the
stage, and pointed out media people in the arena. He would egg the crowd
on to menace and intimidate the press people.
Even before
getting "elected" by a minority of the citizens voting (and fewer than
Clinton received), Trump blacklisted over a dozen media organizations,
barring them from his events, including major media organs, because
their coverage failed to be sycophantic towards him.
Post victory, he doesn't allow media to fly on his plane, a break with established practice.
Trump's
first reaction to the protests against him when he was deemed
president-elect was to tweet that the media was to blame for creating
the protests.
Nixon is going to look like a media-lover compared to Trump.
Well,
the media created Trump in many ways, from NBC making him a TV star
with his awful show, "The Apprentice," based on abuse of people, to the
billions of dollars worth of free air time. CBS boss Leslie Moonves
giddily bragged, infamously, about how much money CBS was making by its
grotesquely over-saturated "coverage" of Trump, saying Trump may be bad
for America, but he was great for CBS.
[1]
On
the other side of the ledger, the media almost totally blacked out
Bernard Sanders, to the extent of airing an empty Trump podium instead
of a live Sanders speech. The media gave billions of dollars of free TV
time to every Trump tweet, while virtually ignoring Sanders. Then,
after Trump won the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) nomination, the media
elites panicked and skewed their coverage to favor Clinton and try to
undermine Trump.
But it didn't work. With the FBI's
help, Trump closed the gap and came close enough to win a majority of
Electoral College votes.
[2]
The media made its bed. Now it has to lie in it. Unfortunately so does everyone else on earth.
Two
of the jackasses who brought us Donald Trump: Media czars Leslie Roy
Moonves (CBS) and Jeffrey Adam Zucker (formerly of NBC, now CNN
Worldwide).
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| Jeffrey Adam Zucker |
Zucker yuks it up with his Creation, the Creature from the Mar-a-Lago Lagoon.
Leslie Roy Moonves
"Hey, I'm making so much money! My shareholders will be pleased! Who cares if America goes to hell in a handbasket?"
Moonves
doesn't want any doubt about who runs CBS so he himself holds all three
top positions: Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive
Officer of CBS Corporation. "Big Ego? Who, Me?"
The Man Who Knifed the Democrats By Dredging Up Clinton's Emails Again: FBI secret police chief and registered Republican James Brien Comey, Jr.
(Thank Obama for appointing this Bush regime apparatchik to his post!
What is it about Democrats? They long for Republican love. Bill Clinton
also had a bad habit of appointing Republicans. Do Republicans ever
appoint Democrats to top power posts? I can't think of any.) [See
footnote 2.]
1] "
Jeff Zucker’s singular role in promoting Donald Trump’s rise,"
Washington Post, October 2, 2016.
Moonves
in February, 2016, at a Media & Telecom Conference in San
Francisco, said, "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for
CBS." "Donald's place in this election is a good thing." "What can I
say, the money is rolling in." "I've never seen anything like this, and
this is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It's a terrible
thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going."
Audio on youtube.com
Link to articles in establishment media on Moonves comments here.
2] After
the release in October of videotape of Trump bragging about sexually
molesting women, it seemed that he was destined to lose. He trailed
Hillary Clinton by 14% in national polls, a huge deficit so close to the
election November 8. Then on October 28, eleven days before the
election, FBI chief James Comey lobbed a bomb into the campaign. He sent
a letter to 8 Congressional chairs saying the FBI found more Clinton
emails in an unnamed, unrelated investigation. It transpired that in
persecuting the hapless, sexually compulsive Anthony Weiner, the FBI
found some Clinton emails as they seized devices used by his estranged
wife, Huma Abedin, a top Hillary Clinton confidant and operative.
Irrationally, this caused the polling gap to evaporate immediately.
Trump ultimately won enough states to win in the Electoral College, even
though he actually lost the "popular" vote (what is called the "vote"
in every other country on earth). See my previous essay for a discussion
of that, below.
["
In the Self-Proclaimed "World's Greatest Democracy," the Candidate With the Most Votes Just Lost."]
For my earlier analysis of the tempest-in-a-teapot email "scandal" redux, see "
Much Ado About Emails: FBI Stirs the Pot Again Over Clinton Private Computer Server."
