LETTER: Joke is on inept media
The media has resorted to mockery, binary moralising and cheap caricatures
The media’s response to Donald Trump’s election is disconcerting. First, there was almost no reflection on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Second, no reflection on Barack Obama’s legacy, which has decimated the Democrats — almost 1,000 lost in the Senate, House and state elected offices combined. Trump’s campaign merits were ignored and replaced with a focus on progressive activist protests, doom prophecies and what went "wrong". Fourth, the hypocrisy and alarmist rhetoric, instead of measured analysis. Amnesia set in, as if every hypothetical future Trump policy disaster has not already been committed by Obama, the Clintons or Bush. Suddenly the constitution, investigative journalism, filibusters and political opposition were rediscovered. Most distressing, however, was just how much the media promotes the politics of the establishment and its clerisy. The stifling and intellectually totalitarian politics of victimhood, identity politics, political correctness and politics as therapy. ...
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