Media Trust and Reality

The corporate mainstream media continues to create their own trap. Trump ends DACA. The fact that DACA was never a law and provided no path to citizenship is ignored by the media and instead Trump is called a racist. Trump works with the Democratic party on some agreement to make DACA a real law and provide a passage to citizenship for people under it. The mainstream media attacks Democrats for working with Trump and the people who it applies to begin saying they don't want DACA made law if it means working with Trump or it means that we will secure our borders. Seems strange doesn't it and quite a bit insincere.

Now lets look at Puerto Rico. Trump says that we have to do something about their debt and the media chastises him for mentioning it at all. Once arriving in Puerto Rico Trump says that the banks are going to have to eat that debt, basically saying they will get to declare bankruptcy (something that came up two years ago and congress and President Obama failed to deal with). What does the media discuss, not that, they discuss him throwing paper towels at people (otherwise known as handing out supplies). Yep, that is your corporate media for you.

Lets go back in time, Trump convinces Carrier to keep jobs in the United States and the media says he didn't keep them all and at the same time says it is wrong for him to try to keep manufacturing jobs here. I know, I wrote those posts at the time and they are still here.

It seems that every time Trump says something, the media attacks him and says he should do X; but, when it turns out that he was working on just that all the time and proposes it, they say it is not enough and that he is racist or evil for doing what they said he should do.

The establishment and the corporate media cannot see what they are doing to themselves. Even progressives within the Democratic party that hate Trump are calling out the media for their lies and hypocrisy. I write about the news all the time, I read so many news sources a day that I cannot tell you on any given day which ones I read. I read from the left, from the right, from other countries, from alternative sites, from overseas sites and from everything else that looks like it might contain additional information like specialty sites (science, anomalous events, cryptozoology and whatever else you can think of). Nobody who knows me thinks they are better informed on these events than me; but, even those of my friends who follow none of these things are telling me that they know the media and establishment are exposing themselves in a negative light and they cannot figure out why. Everyone knows something is different, even the most uninformed.

Here is where it really gets weird. If Trump gets DACA approved as a real law providing a real path to citizenship, we already know they will say he is evil and a racist. If Trump gets a bankruptcy approved for Puerto Rico and gets their electrical grid back up better than it was before the hurricane they will say he is evil and racist. The problem for the media is that everybody sees what they are saying even the people who hate Trump.

Pimpernel was a sneaky, sneaky person back in the day. I would set trap doors for those who attacked me to make sure if they did wrong their heads fell off and they never saw them because there were always too many to catch them all. Making people fight themselves is easier than you might think, it is chess if you play well and it is most definitely tournament poker. You just don't see it often in politics, not to this degree.

While I have little if any sympathy for the corporate media or the establishment as they continue to lose credibility and expose their hypocrisy, I am concerned that down the road people will not hear them if and when they are ever honest and correct again. It is easier to convince people you are dishonest than to convince them after you have proven it that you can be trusted again. That is the predicament the media is in.