Mainstream media is now fully engaged in a fight for recognition by Trump
...and many more have begun shifting to the more sensible role of working for relevancy with their viewership.
Mainstream media has been serving as mouthpieces and apologists for government for so long they forgot their privileged roles were meant to do more than perpetuate their industry.
Now, with Trump making publicly clear his antipathy and revulsion for them at even the tiniest hint of interest in what he's doing as president, effectively kicking them out of the WH good-old-boy's club, they're scrambling for relevancy among the actual consumers of their product. You can just imagine the sleepless nights right now worrying over ways to effectively nail this inveterate liar in the presidency.
As refreshing as it is to see them scramble to defend themselves when Trump pushes back against them, it shouldn't be forgotten that it's been their viewing public who has been left over the years with little voice in the media against their steady promotion of obvious lies and diversions from government officials.
Likewise, it was fine and good when they had access and the perks that went with those, mostly unquestioned, promotions of republican policy and politics. It's a much different tune from them now that they've been scorned and spurned by Trump and his sycophants in the republican party.
Even as we're witnessing a revival of actual reporting from previously unlikely sources, there's still an air of pleading in their questions for Trump to return to a time when republican crazy was kept undercover of reasonable-sounding framing, and their one-sided presentations were welcomed as compliments to republican obstruction and obstinacy.
Here's hoping the Trump White House continues to keep these media sources out in the cold, and they find their refuge, instead, in unfettered truth accurately reported to the American people.
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