I'm old enough to remember Walter Cronkite. His era was the last great days of the news. It was a time when giving Americans the news was a service and not a business. Though he did step up and condemn the Vietnam war, it wasn't just his opinion, it was an obvious fact.
It's a business now as 24 hour cable stations have taken over. Some, like CNN and MSNBC offer news but are admittedly heavy on opinion. Fox is Fox, yammering on about some whiny shit that liberals are doing, occasionally breaking from that for news. It isn't Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkly but, it is what we have now and we have to deal with it. That idiot and his minions in the White House need to realize that.
When Trump said that the media was the enemy of the people, my first thought was that he turned on them pretty damn quick! It was them more than Russia that got his sorry ass elected in the first place. I watched a lot of news in the build up to the election and it was all about him. And even when it wasn't about him, that was because it was about Hillary's emails and how that was equivalent to his inept pussy-grabbing self. Being a business, you couldn't blame them for focusing most of their attention on the obscene side-show that Trump was (and still is) rather than the boring, nuts and bolts of the fact that Bernie or Hillary should be running the country and not just because neither is a fucking asshole. The main stream media is not supposed to pick sides but they do know which side of their buns gets buttered.
So, trust them? No more than I would hate them at the behest of the Troll In Chief. My life doesn't work that way because I learned long ago that others want to influence me in ways that favor them over me. Who knew? Well, me, if you're paying attention. If you can't see through Trump's or Kellyanne Conway's bullshit, Cronkite wouldn't help you. It saddens me that there are so many stupid people in the media today but, this nation made the Kardashian's famous. It might as well be a Kardashian in the White House. It's all for show anyway. I think Trump realizes this and rolls with it because he is going to make a lot of money whether he winds up in prison or not. If we have another duly-elected president some day, I already feel sorry for him or her because they will have to face the fact that a total fraud preceded them. You might think it'd make the job easier to have such a low bar set but would you want to follow such an act at your job? "The guy before you was an idiot. Do better..."
So, Trump says the media is the enemy of the people. It was the good-looking talking heads of cable news that fawned all over him and helped make his election possible. I like some of these people but, don't mistake them for journalists. If they are saying today that "Golly- Trump looked so presidential last night..." they aren't to be taken seriously. Like doctors and lawyers, half of them graduated at the bottom of their class. Some may have graduated from Trump University. Good night and good luck with that.
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