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The TV media no longer conceal their disdain for Donald Trump’s ludicrous spinners. Jake Tapper raps Rudy Giuliani for defending Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns and chides Paul Manafort: “These things, just because you say them, they’re not true!” CNN’s Brianna Keilar takes Kellyanne Conway to task for insisting Trump did not mean to say he’d lock up Hillary Clinton. (“I’m talking about what your candidate is saying, which is more important than what you are saying about this. He is saying she has to go to jail. He is not talking about she has to stand and be judged. He is saying she has to go to jail.”) And practically everyone treats the hapless Jason Miller as a liar, a fool or both.
Bias? No, these TV journalists can no longer bear to pretend Trump’s people are saying anything resembling the truth and are annoyed they have to put them on air essentially to lie to the American people....
TV media in particular have relished the ratings from the most disruptive US election campaign ever. Reality TV crossed over into mainstream TV journalism and media credibility continues to evaporate.
The surrogates and spinners deserve our scorn. The media do not deserve our respect for their inability, unwillingness and lack of courage to call out racism, misogyny, undemocratic behavior, lies and conduct unbecoming a Presidential candidate. have simply arrived too late to calling a shovel a bloody spade.
Too little, too late. The media and the people are both poorer for it.