Powerful truth: Epic Media Fail: How And Why Trump Trumped The Press

[mfcorey1]

WASHINGTON -- At a time when the media’s duty to vet candidates is more urgent than ever, journalism is giving Donald Trump a free pass, leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told The Huffington Post in an interview.

Trump deploys fame for fame’s sake; taps into populist expressions of fear, hatred and resentment and shows a knack for picking fights and a braggart’s focus on the horse race. All of which allow him to play into -- and exploit -- every media weakness and bad habit in a chase for audience and numbers.

As a result, said Goodwin, the 69-year-old Trump has preempted serious scrutiny of his past, character, record in business and suitability -- if any -- for the office of president.

In the old days Goodwin writes about, vetting (and probably dismissing) Trump would also have been the province of party leaders: prominent, experienced (though not necessarily wise) power brokers in politics, government, business and other upper realms of American society.

But the phrase “party leader” today is an oxymoron, and picking nominees today is totally the province of voters in caucuses and primaries, which makes the civic role of the mainstream press all that more important, Goodwin observed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-press_us_56a552fee4b076aadcc6fefc

[LittleBlue]

1. That's the spin. The truth is worse

That our political system is so ineffective people just want to see it blown up. They don't care who it angers or how it affects us, they just want to inflict pain on the system that hurts them. Which is why there is so much support for those viewed as outside the mainstream.

The media still doesn't get it, or they do and they keep printing these lies. They are part of the corporatocracy, so is Doris Kearns Goodwin.

[mfcorey1]

2. The truth still is that Donald has and continues to "punk"

the media. They accept his dribble without challenge and have created a monster that they do not know how to address. It is journalistic crime at its worst and even more damaging is an uninformed population that accepts it.