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Watching the News Last Night
by Steve WhiteI was in a situation this past evening where I had to cool my heels at the hospital. As a physician you would think that that is a normal situation for me, except it wasn't my hospital. A family member had surgery, so I spent time in the surgery waiting area, just comforting family and being my usual self. Well, perhaps better behaved. Because of this I had to watch TV. Much like an airport lounge, the waiting area had several televisions going, competing with each other in volume and generating the sort of cacophony that makes it hard to read a book or just think quietly. This was the "evening news hour", and CNN, ABC and CBS had their standard network broadcasts going. Oh my. For both ABC and CBS it was just about the entire first ten minutes on the national election. Fine, that is coming up so it's going to be a topic of conversation. CNN had segments as well as part of their 'headline' news. Now I'm not naïve. I've been reading about the media bias in this election. I understand that the MSM is "all in" for Hillary. But it's one thing to know that, it's another thing to watch it in action. The key word, I think, is relentless. Each and every segment was anti-Trump. The visuals served to make Trump look old and dark. The tone was menacing. The talking heads were pondering, nasty, and condemning. The news anchors kept up the tone, staging questions that were meant to give the talking heads another reason to bash Trump. The theme was the entire anti-woman, racist, anti-woman, nasty, anti-woman, inexperienced, anti-woman, and double-dealing, and did I mention anti-woman? Through all this, there was little said about Hillary. ABC, near the end, noted that she was "taking time off to prepare for the last debate" (those hardware upgrades take a couple days, I'm told). That about it. Again, I understand that the networks aren't going to mention her health, Benghazi, email servers, the Foundation, her canoodling with foreign thugs, and her money-grubbing. But there was nothing of substance: it was as if someone at the campaign (perhaps Podesta) who decided that the best plan was to disappear Hillary for the next couple weeks. And that's just what the networks did. I watched as the media pummeled McCain and then Romney. I've watched the spite directed against every Republican in the election, and how each is rehabilitated four years later to be used as a cudgel against the next Republican. So cheer up, Donald: in four years the MSM will respect you again. Oh, and one more thing. I'm well and truly done with the MSM. I'm not even sure I'll continue to watch football on their networks. But I sure will not patronize their news, their prime-time, their shows, and their ads. As the saying goes, you can't pee on my back and then tell me it's raining. Goodbye MSM. Posted by: Steve White 2016-10-19 |
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