{"id":1720330,"date":"2022-11-01T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720330"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T19:33:32","slug":"ahead-of-2024-media-ponder-aloud-how-dishonest-and-manipulative-can-we-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahead-of-2024-media-ponder-aloud-how-dishonest-and-manipulative-can-we-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead Of 2024, Media Ponder Aloud: How Dishonest And Manipulative Can We Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fahead-of-2024-media-ponder-aloud-how-dishonest-and-manipulative-can-we-be%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I\u2019m enjoying all the \u201cthink\u201d pieces and columns by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/05\/how-to-survive-elon-musks-pro-free-speech-twitter-a-guide-for-the-corrupted-national-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anxiety-racked journalists<\/a> who are forever coming up with new ways to say a version of, \u201cVoters are way too stupid and we don\u2019t trust them to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/10\/28\/elon-musk-trump-twitter-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last Friday<\/a> The Washington Post\u2019s Megan McArdle wrote at length about how much responsibility she attributes to herself and her peers in the media for getting Donald Trump elected in 2016. \u201cIt is no exaggeration to say he climbed into the presidency on the shoulders of the hundreds of journalists who kept treating his pronouncements as matters of epic importance,\u201d she said, \u201ceven if it had been tapped out one-handed while schmoozing around Mar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In essence, McArdle believes that the media were mistaken to report on the public comments and expressions of a prominent figure who was running for president and who was hosting campaign rallies attended by thousands. In doing so, she believes voters didn\u2019t really get the point, as polls showed Trump and many of his positions gaining popularity. \u201cThis was, to state the obvious, not the effect we were hoping for,\u201d McArdle said.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not so much that McArdle believes she or her peers failed the public. She believes <em>the voters<\/em> did.<\/p>\n<p>They were supposed to look at what the media were saying and come to the same conclusion as McArdle \u2014\u00a0that Trump and everything he represented was unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not what happened, and McArdle and the rest of the corrupt press want to make sure what did happen never happens again. And so, she said it was time for a \u201cnew journalistic tradition,\u201d which essentially amounted to treating Trump and his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/10\/inside-the-child-psychology-driving-michelle-goldberg-and-other-leftists-to-angry-tears-over-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pending return to Twitter<\/a> as if neither exists. \u201cRather than leaping to condemn his every pronouncement,\u201d she wrote, \u201cwe should treat Trump\u2019s Twitter account the way we\u2019d treat some random account with five followers and a penchant for rancid verbal attacks: as if it were generally beneath our notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is also known as a \u201cblackout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McArdle\u2019s former Post colleague Margaret Sullivan also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/17\/dear-washington-post-journalists-the-public-interest-isnt-the-same-thing-as-your-political-preference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said last month<\/a> that \u201cold-style journalism will no longer suffice\u201d in political coverage. Instead, she said all her little friends should \u201cbe thinking about what coverage serves the public best.\u201d In other words, what coverage serves <em>her<\/em> interest\u2014 <em>the media\u2019s<\/em> interest.<\/p>\n<p>I would quibble with some of the word choices that the media are using to describe their motives. When they call for a \u201cnew journalistic tradition,\u201d or claim that \u201cold-style journalism will no longer suffice,\u201d what they mean is that they need a novel approach to influencing all future elections. Words like \u201cdishonesty\u201d and \u201cmanipulation\u201d would be more appropriate. Otherwise, I appreciate their candor.<\/p>\n<p>   Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When they call for a &#8216;new journalistic tradition,&#8217; what they mean is that they need a novel approach to influencing all future elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1720333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}