I suggested months ago that Trump had an uphill battle because
the entire Washington establishment – Republican and Democratic alike – opposed
him because he was an outsider who threatened their cozy world. He of course
has made their job easier by his intemperate campaign and manifest unsuitability
for the job. But even if he had been an outstanding candidate they still would
have done their best to bring him down.
The current media statistics show just how biased the
mainstream media has become. A recent article in The Hill reported that a
review of the tapes of the evening news over the period when this last flap
occurred showed that NBC, CBS and ABC nightly news together devoted a total of
23 minutes to coverage of the attacks on Trump for his sexism, but only a total
(across all three networks!) of 57 seconds to the revelations about Hillary
from the hacked WikiLeaks emails.
Of course sex sells better than substance in the media, but
23 minutes (favoring Hillary) to 57 seconds (favoring Trump)? Hardly an
unbiased press!
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