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This Is How the Media Dies: Not With a Bang But a WhineSome really good pieces today. I suggest you read the whole thing for each, but here's just a little to get you going. Mollie Hemingway appeared on Howard Kurtz yesterday to say bad things about the media, and the video's worth watching. But her article about it is better and more detailed. She offers advice to media liberals about how to not be such unhinged ninnies about Trump. Here's a bit: It’s been nearly two months since Donald Trump won the 2016 election for president of the United States but somehow that’s not been enough time for the reality to sink in for many political liberals. Yes, presidential elections have been emotional for some time. I can vouch for how sad if not depressed many conservatives were when Mitt Romney lost his bid to unseat President Obama in 2012. If you didn't already know that, it's probably just because you don’t know many conservatives. The media never for a moment considered how heartbreaking that loss was for many Americans worried about the direction of the country. Because humans don't really care how non-humans feel.
Yup. And I've gotta say, 2016 was an eye-opener for me, when I learned how truly dogmatic, cultish, sheep-like, and heretic-hunting the online right was. I can't say I'll ever be part of the movement again, not really, not after seeing what it was really all about. Michael Walsh just spits molten nails at the media, and it's glorious. Riffing off Ross Douthat's infamous tweet of Sept. 2015 -- "The entire commentariat is going to feel a little silly when Marco Rubio wins every Republican primary" -- writer Zach Schonfeld notes:At best, it's just a dopey prediction -- we've all made some of those. At worst, it's an enduring avatar of the cartoonish arrogance and mass-scale humiliation that overtook the pundit class in 2016. It's a microcosm of the biggest media trend of the year: total humiliation. He then talks about all the job-losses in the media sector. This is what happens when reporters become blind partisans, and when their grasp of larger cultural issues is subsumed by the horse race. And yet, despite their horrendous failure -- why, indeed, should anyone even believe them again when they tout a sure thing like Hillary Clinton? -- you can bet that, four years from now, they'll happily do it all over again. If you didn't know -- I didn't -- today James Taranto wrote his very last Best of the Web column. Sad! He's being promoted to op-ed page editor, but his gain is our loss. For his last column, he really brings the stuff. If you've ever wondered why the media seems to be taking this so damn personally, well, it's because it is very personal indeed. Sure, they're upset that Hillary lost-- but that's only part of it. The bigger part is that they lost something personally -- prestige. It was a lot like after 9/11 when reporters were butthurt that soldiers and cops and firefighters and EMTs were treated as the real heroes, rather than, as everyone of good sense and taste prefers, reporters being treated as the real heroes. They felt meh about the felling of the Towers. What really burned their asses was the diminishment of their position in the pecking order. And so too now after Trump: [New York Times media beat reporter Jim] Rutenberg's list of mainstream-media missteps is serviceable as an answer to the question of how journalists blew it, but he doesn't even attempt to grapple with the question of why. Partisan and ideological bias is part of the answer, but it isn’t sufficient. After all, no one is more biased than 99th-percentile Michael Moore [who predicted Trump's victory -- ace]. Nor is it very interesting. To those of us who are aware of media bias, it is so familiar that we find the subject almost as tiresome as do those who are suffused with, and therefore oblivious to, it. Read the whole thing -- like I said, he jammed an awful lot into his goodbye column. And he's of course definitely right. The media are acting viciously and defensively precisely because they are defending the territory they've claimed for themselves by pissing all over the outskirts of it. They will not abide a challenge nor a chastening; they intend to "win" the argument they've been having for 40 years with 300 million Americans. They won't, but no one accepts a downward change in status gracefully and without embarrassing spectacle. | Recent Comments
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