Why the Media Is No Longer Credible

Oh yea, she's a "Rock Star" now!

Why do you believe the media is no longer credible? Have you noticed what has changed in the media's coverage of almost everything? What do you feel is the reason why there's so much fake news these days? Is it any wonder that so many no longer watch their reports?

I was pleased to see the interview Sheryll Attkisson did recently with Frank Sesno titled, "The Big Ask" centered around his new book with the same title. Why? Because it confirmed something I have believed as to why the media has shifted from centrist oriented in the decades when I was a child and young adult, to leftist and liberal. Mr. Sesno points out how today's journalists who clearly lean to the left, are ask questions which are oriented in a confrontational manner, rather than phrased, or posed, in a manner which is neutral, but digs for information which is factual, rather than challenging the person being asked in an accusatory way. The most notorious example would be the CNN reporter - Jim Accosta - who went out of control with a barrage of stupid questions and wouldn't shut up. Trump gave him a "smack down" and it became it's own story for days.

What he explains is the driving force of media behind why this has developed into what it is today, and I've long known that this reality was why we've now become inundated with what appears to be an all out "fake news" assault on our current President; sensationalism drives ratings! Of course, it's already understood that a large share of today's media war against Trump is because they are furious that he managed to outfox them from the start of his campaign by manipulating them to give him press coverage and ultimately beating their "crowned princess" Hillary. They're still incensed about this and are character assassinating Trump in every conceivable way they can; even to the extent of having liberal members of Congress make absurd claims... can you spell Wilson?

Consider the fact that today we have hundreds of news outlets with the Internet compared to the 1960s when Walter Cronkite, David & Chet Brinkley, and Eric Sevaried were the only three news sources of that era. The competition today is all the more fierce, and in order to get any attention, stations such as MSNBC (MSLSD as Mark Levin calls it.) are going to extremes when reporting that, say, the President sneezed and claim it set off one of "Rocket Man's" missiles in North Korea, or some ridiculous thing like it.

You want a perfect example of just how dishonest, the New York Times for instance, as part of the leftist media can be? Check these two stories here:

Bill O'Reilly - Part 1 (Oct 21, 2017 5:40 pm)

Bill O'Reilly - Part 2 (Oct 22, 2017 10:40 am)

Footnote:

I can't help but wonder what Eric Sevaried is thinking about his press from up in heaven, now. It seems that, as he said in his farewell address (see link above) that he can no longer "... comfort ones' self in times of error with the knowledge of the saving grace that the press, print, or broadcast, is its self correcting nature...", with Cronkite signing off at the end.