@Brand X,
Quote:This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump
And probably with good reason? No? I don't suppose you believe that..
Actually, what's funny is that if you twist this issue, I agree with you. I think the main stream media as a whole is invested in the status quo. They prefer folks like main stream politicians and I think they prefer folks to work within the confines of the social world they wittingly and sometimes unwittingly present*.
They are a conservative institution in that way as well as being generally conservative. This is in stark contrast to the view that CNN and its ilk are 'left wing' arms of the society. I don't believe this for a moment. This completely disregards what it means to be left wing; it carves out a huge segment of ideology, leaving only a tiny iceberg tip with which partisanship is defined. Within that framework, there is left and right. But it lacks a proper referent and scope and so becomes essentially meaningless if you don't buy into the world they create. Which many of the folks on this board claim immunity from..
So, I do agree that Trump upsets that applecart, but I don't believe that the MSM hiss and spit at Trump soley because he isn't part of their group. A broken clock is right twice a day and in this case, I believe the media has good reason to dislike Trump. The 'Change' he represents is a change away from the main stream, but I don't think its a good change, it is of a higher authoritarianism, more clandestine, more insidious that what we consider main stream. I don't mean that that main stream is non threatening or good - Trump, I believe, is like them on steroids..
Everyone hates the Nazi references and I certainly
don't think that we have a Germany circa 1930's on our hands, but I think that Trump stands in the same relationship to our current political group as the Nazi's did to their main stream politicians (America's current group of Nazi's sure appear to think so!). They weren't main stream, they hated the existing political structure, they were outsiders, populist, they promised to get rid of a weak system and bring power back to the people and the main stream hated them. I think this is one of the reasons why Trump is frightening.
Though the social conditions are not the same and its unlikely (though not impossible) that Trump could so undermine our institutions that we would degenerate to that level, the parallels are there (I wonder how many on this board who find Trump at least palatable would find glee if Trump began a pogrom to round up people who criticize him and a bunch of us on the board who did so were 'deported'..)
Again, its not a defense of mainstream politicians, it doesn't mean that they don't engage in the same kind of crap (its hidden for them). Its just that Trump drives this parallel home and he exacerbates it by appearing to have comparatively very little virtue. The only good side to this is that you know exactly what you are dealing with.
*although I do think of media as representing a world that doesn't really exist per se, I do think they are useful for presenting facts. They show what's occurring on video, in print. The meta data behind that revelation maybe complete BS, but there are facts to be gleaned. There just needs to be care with the interpretation, especially after the Colgate commercial..