Journalists Becoming Propagandists
Will Rahn at CBSNews.com writes about the “unbearable smugness of the press,” and the disgust shown towards poor and middle class Americans who ended up supporting Trump.
“It’s a profound failure of empathy in the service of endless posturing. There’s been some sympathy from the press, sure: the dispatches from “heroin country” that read like reports from colonial administrators checking in on the natives. But much of that starts from the assumption that Trump voters are backward, and that it’s our duty to catalogue and ultimately reverse that backwardness. What can we do to get these people to stop worshiping their false god and accept our gospel?We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession. Journalists, at our worst, see ourselves as a priestly caste. We believe we not only have access to the indisputable facts, but also a greater truth, a system of beliefs divined from an advanced understanding of justice.”
He notes that journalists make little effort to understand those living in fly-over country, even mocking them. “(We) treat the economic grievances of Middle America like they’re some sort of punchline. Sometimes quite literally so, such as when reporters tweet out a photo of racist-looking Trump supporters and jokingly suggest that they must be upset about free trade or low wages.”
Yeah, laugh at those 2,100 men and women who lost their jobs this year when Carrier moved their jobs from Indiana to Mexico. Maybe that’s one reason why the state went to Trump by 20 points and left journalists in tears early Wednesday morning.
Before the election I wrote, “We “deplorables” who couldn’t re-fi our mortgages, or lost our homes after the 2008 crash are furious that we find ourselves at the cusp of being led by the very elite that caused the crash in the first place. Many of us came from the Democratic Party, whose leadership seemed more interested in providing voting registration to illegals, then turned around and called us “racist” for being upset by the crime they brought to our communities.”
Journalists aren’t journalists anymore. They do not write what they observe they write what they want to see. In effect the entire profession has merged with fiction writing, they just don’t realize it yet. What happens when they do realize it?
They become propagandists.
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