The beginning of the end for that which we were once
able to call our “mainstream media” was officially kicked into high gear back
in 2007-08 when every effort imaginable was undertaken to ensure that Barack
Obummer was elected president. And it
would seem that the death spiral has only managed to increase in both rate of
descent as well as velocity as the media’s reputation for accuracy plummets
toward the deck. And it would seem that with
each passing day of the Trump administration those in what has now morphed into
our ‘state-controlled media complex’ reveal themselves to be a bit more
unhinged and in so doing lose more of what little credibility they have
remaining. They insist upon focusing on
those issues that most Americans simply have little or no interest in.
So there’s apparently a new Bloomberg poll out that
shows that while healthcare is the top issue for the majority of Americans, the
network newscasts have spent the vast majority of their time doing little more
than to continue to relentlessly hammer their viewers with coverage of
Democrats’ accusations about Russia and President Donald Trump collusion. The Bloomberg National Poll reveals that 35
percent of Americans say “Health Care” is the top issue today - nearly three
times the 13 percent who cite “Unemployment/Jobs.” Only six percent cited “Relationship with
Russia” as the most important issue. And
I’d be willing to be bet that the majority of that six prevent are, more than
likely, brain dead Democrats. Because
they just love ‘fake news’, especially when it’s about President Trump.
A recent analysis our ‘friends’ in the media and
what it came to show was that network news programs spend far more time
covering Russia-Trump than they do on any of top issues that the American
people actually care about or see as being the most important. In the five weeks following the appointment
of special counsel Robert Mueller (May 17-June 20), networks devoted 353
minutes of their total 640 minutes of airtime (55%) to the Russia-Trump
probe. Thus, even though nearly six
times more Americans cited "Health Care" as being their top issue,
networks devoted more than 20 times more coverage to Russia. The other issues
in Americans’ top five were cited roughly twice as often as Russia – yet,
networks devoted up to 71 times as many minutes to covering Russia.
Here are the top five “most important” issues cited
by Americans in the Bloomberg poll, followed by the relative amount of time
networks spend covering them, compared to their Russia-Trump coverage.
1
- Health Care 35%:
•5.8 times more people cited Health Care than Russia
(35%-6%),
•Networks devoted 20.8 times more coverage to Russia
than to Health Care (353-17 minutes)
2
– Unemployment/Jobs 13%:
•2.2 times more people cited Unemployment/Jobs than
Russia (13%-6%),
•Networks gave 70.6 times more coverage to Russia
than to Unemployment/Jobs (353-5 minutes)
3
– Terrorism 11%:
•1.8 times more people said Terrorism than Russia
(11%-6%),
•Networks spent 12.2 times more time on Russia than
on Terrorism (353-29 minutes)
4
– Immigration 10%:
•1.7 times as many people cited Immigration as cited
Russia (10%-6%),
•Networks spent 70.6 times as many minutes covering
Russia as they did covering Immigration (353-5 minutes)
5
– Climate Change 10%:
•1.7 times more people cited Climate Change than
cited Russia (10%-6%),
•Networks devoted 7.5 times more coverage to Russia
than to Climate Change (353-47 minutes)
It’s upon closer examination that one discovers that
there is more than just a slight disconnect between what the American people
want covered and what the networks, both cable and broadcast, see as being far
more important and therefore spend the majority of their time reporting on. And it explains why public trust of those in
the media has continued to decline due to what is a very obvious leftwing media
bias. The media’s obsession with the
Russia investigation flies in the face of what the public says it actually
cares the most about. According to a Harvard-Harris poll, ‘a majority of voters
believe the Russia investigations are damaging to the country and are eager to
see Congress shift its focus to healthcare, terrorism, national security, the
economy and jobs.’” Yet both the
Democrat and their media partners persist.
The media/propaganda wing of the Democrat Party has obviously
decided that convincing the people that President Trump somehow colluded with
the Russians is far more important than anything else that it could be doing and
is therefore headed full steam ahead in that direction despite having no evidence
that such collusion exists. They have committed themselves to that proposition
and have stubbornly stuck by their claims that such collusion does exist. And doing so in the stark absence of any
actual proof has accomplished nothing more than to cause people to question
their motivation. Given the disconnect,
it should be no surprise that half of all voters see the media as biased
against Trump, compared to only four percent who think the media are pro-Trump,
that according to a recent Rasmussen poll.
In recent months, even hardcore leftists like Diane
Feinstein and ‘Mad Maxine’ Waters have said there has been no evidence of
Trump-Russia collusion, and Comey said, three times, that Trump wasn’t under
investigation. Even a Crappy News Network (CNN) exec got caught recently saying
the story was a “nothingburger” but they keep running the stories anyway. It is interesting to note as well that a year
ago Obummer was aware of possible interference from Russia and yet chose to do
nothing about it because everyone was so sure the old Hag, Hitlery, was going
to win the election. And today the only
ones still buying this collusion nonsense are the most very simple-minded. They claim concerns about Russian
interference, yet are wholly misleading with the propaganda they spew. The media truly has become our enemy.
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