Post by Vince524 on Nov 14, 2016 13:30:31 GMT -5
Saw this today. www.nationalreview.com/corner/442164/watch-panelist-rips-cnn-liberal-media-biased-election-coverage
From National Review, they posted a video of The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway ripping a new one for the media.
There's a video, and here's a transcript.
Yes, this was a complete failure at every step of the process during this entire campaign. The media definitely — they clearly and overtly and even told us they wanted Hillary to win and they gambled everything — including their credibility, on defeating Donald Trump and electing Hillary Clinton and they lost and now where does that leave everybody? …
The New York Times had on the front page of their paper in the middle of August that you couldn’t give Donald Trump a fair shake. No body with eyes or ears could have any question what so ever in the media felt about Donald Trump, what they felt about his voters. Even something as simple as— for some reason people in Washington and New York newsrooms had a really high view of Hillary Clinton that was unmatched in the entire rest of the country, so you had people in our newsrooms, in our major national media telling us things we knew were not true. I don’t know what the media can do now to regain its credibility.
Couple that with the NY Times
While insisting his staff had “reported on both candidates fairly,” he also vowed that the paper would “rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor.”
it does seem there's no doubt that the media was in the tank for Clinton.
Can news media repair their reputations? Part of the issue is that people like click bait stories. They want news that feeds their perceptions, not challenge them.