The media and the public

Chateau Heartiste writes about the media:

Maybe it leaned liberal sixty years ago, but that lean has turned into a pipeline funneling the entire industry into the dankest leftie sewage tank.

The public, though, hasn’t “progressed” nearly as far as the media has. The result is a growing disconnect between the media and the public; a disconnect that has widened so much that the media no longer feel any emotional resonance with the reading and viewing public they are supposed to serve. Worse, the leftoids running the media industrial complex feel a powerful antagonism to the public, which manifests as an unrepentant, almost giddy, compulsion to force feed the public whatever race creationist nonsense and lies the media wants the public to imbibe.

The two players have become, in all but battlefield bloodshed, mortal enemies. It isn’t simply a matter of distrust. Not anymore. It’s active and deliberate dissemination of false narratives by a fifth column to cow, humiliate, and brainwash an entire country of generally good-hearted and trusting people who are too inert to react with the needed megadose of antibody cynicism and righteous anger.

Will anything break this deadlock and rupture the antagonistic dynamic between media and public? From the year 2015 vantage point, it doesn’t seem so. Perhaps a cataclysmic event that threatens the survival of the nation will reorient the media-public relationship, but even then… I mean, 9/11 did nothing in this regard, and that was an attack on American soil that bested Pearl Harbor for visceral impact.

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