Always our fault - more crap from CNN - "Where Liberals will Run to Hide from Trump"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/opinions/liberals-hide-from-trump-spicer/index.html

by Andre Spicer

&quot CNN)Donald Trump's election, in addition to worrying many Americans, will usher in a new age of self-development in American life. Following what many liberals see as a profound political defeat, people are likely to see politics as a losing game and give up on it entirely. They will stop engaging with public issues like poverty, pollution or public violence.

Instead, they will focus on private concerns like their own individual happiness and health. There will be big increases in gym attendance, consumption of self-help books, alternative health treatments and therapy.

President-elect Trump's ascension will exacerbate this trend. He has promised a more protectionist agenda, which will have a big influence on the way Americans relate to the outside world. But what will be more profound is the impact it will have on how Americans relate to each other -- and themselves. My research indicates that they will start a turn inward, to look more closely at their own lives.

More Americans becoming self-development junkies means more money for the more-than $11 billion-a-year self-help industry, but perhaps counterintuitively, this surge in self-development won't be healthy for the country overall."

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So - the media enables Trump's election - the election of the biggest narcissist in US political history - and we are now doomed to deal with this by becoming - guess what - narcissists?

I have no idea how we can get the media back at least so that they serve some reasonable function for decency and truth - but this is a nice sampling of the shit that they seem compelled to spew.

[phallon]

1. Why don't we all camp on Zucker's doorstep for a few years and make him wonder where HE should hide?

[marybourg]

2. I wouldn't worry about it.

Most people put about the same value on these "think" pieces as you do. Maybe less.

[still_one]

3. What people may start to realize is that the US media is a "losing game", and why patronize a

platform you cannot trust.

I downgraded my Satellite Service the day after the election, so I essentially get just locals. I do not need a medium, which Chuck Todd was so proud to declare that it wasn't their job to point out inaccuracies made people during interviews.

The cable and satellite news outlets is money, not accuracy.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I just peer at a few websites - I've not watched TV in 8 years.

[still_one]

5. Good for you. BBC is where I go. I do read the NYTimes, and other newspapers, but for me the CNNs,

MSNBCs, etc. really offer very little, and I can find more reliable sources outside their realm

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I read Slate, TPM, BBC, NYT and here - CNN typically just to see what a mess they make of things