In this election cycle, the media’s influence has extended far beyond
their traditional roles as reporters and provocateurs to actually
framing the public debate. By selectively releasing a decade-old “hot
mic” moment in which Donald Trump spoke in demeaning, graphic sexual
terms about women, the media sought to circumvent the focus on the
issues that were originally intended to be the center of the
town-hall-style second debate between the candidates.
The reason why the media has been so intent on dragging extraneous, personally damaging information into the national debate is because they are now afraid of their own creation—Donald Trump.
Let’s not forget that up until this point, Trump’s campaign has been largely fueled by headline-grabbing soundbites that the media lapped up with the frenzied gusto of starving curs. They, in fact, have now become so expectant of feeding off controversial statements generated by the candidates that they have completely abandoned their roles as watchdogs guarding the nation’s storehouse of facts, integrity, truth and transparency.
The reason why the media has been so intent on dragging extraneous, personally damaging information into the national debate is because they are now afraid of their own creation—Donald Trump.
Let’s not forget that up until this point, Trump’s campaign has been largely fueled by headline-grabbing soundbites that the media lapped up with the frenzied gusto of starving curs. They, in fact, have now become so expectant of feeding off controversial statements generated by the candidates that they have completely abandoned their roles as watchdogs guarding the nation’s storehouse of facts, integrity, truth and transparency.
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