{"id":2244023,"date":"2024-05-14T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-imaginary-chaos-vs-real-chaos\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:24:22","slug":"heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-imaginary-chaos-vs-real-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-imaginary-chaos-vs-real-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media&#8217;s Deceptive Tale: Fictional &#8220;Chaos&#8221; vs. True Chaos"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fheres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-imaginary-chaos-vs-real-chaos%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=2244023&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>The New York Times&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-new-york-times-is-covering-bidens-infrastructure-plan-vs-how-they-covered-trumps\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s How The New York Times Is Covering Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Plan Vs. How They Covered Trump\u2019s\">recent coverage<\/a> of the \u200b2024 campaign suggests that President Biden&#8217;s\u2063 low poll\u200b numbers compared to Trump&#8217;s\u200d are due to voters forgetting the chaos of the \u200dTrump era.\u2063 The article questions\u200b why people are not more concerned about\u200c events\u200d like \u200dthe\u2062 Capitol storming or the pandemic, \u200dattributing \u200dit to\u200c media sensationalism. Recent coverage by The New York Times on\u200c the 2024 campaign implies that\u200d President Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-officials-felt-relief-when-supreme-court-forced-admin-to-reinstate-trump-immigration-policy-nyt-reports\/\" title=\"Biden Officials Felt \u2018Relief\u2019 When Supreme Court Forced Admin To Reinstate Trump Immigration Policy, NYT Reports\">declining poll numbers<\/a>\u200b in comparison to Trump&#8217;s\u200d may stem from voters&#8217;\u200b amnesia regarding the tumultuous \u2064Trump era. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rising-baby-name-trend-could-become-the-new-normal-is-our-nation-in-danger\/\" title=\"Is the Rising Baby Name Trend a Threat to Our Nation?\">article raises concerns<\/a>\u2064 about \u200dthe public&#8217;s lack of \u200cemphasis on significant events such as the Capitol riot \u2062or the pandemic, blaming \u2064it on media sensationalism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/06\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-nyt-blames-bidens-low-support-on-voters-with-collective-amnesia\/\">recurring theme<\/a> in The New York Times\u2019 2024 campaign coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/20\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-nyt-editor-blames-swing-voters-who-dont-know-or-remember-trump\/\">in recent weeks<\/a> is that President Biden\u2019s poll numbers suck relative to Donald Trump\u2019s because voters clearly don\u2019t remember the \u201cchaos\u201d of the Trump years.<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s most recent attempt at making \u201cfetch\u201d happen was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/05\/10\/upshot\/trump-memories-poll.html?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an article<\/a> published Friday, with reference to a new Times survey showing Trump with a substantial lead in all but one of the six swing states that will decide the election. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1032238960\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-51138b56b2accb5e3e1c08f4d06df0b1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-51138b56b2accb5e3e1c08f4d06df0b1\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTwo of the biggest U.S. news events in decades, the Covid pandemic and the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, are seldom the first thing on people\u2019s minds when it comes to their memories of the Trump administration, for example\u2026,\u201d the Times said. \u201cWhen asked to describe the one thing they remembered most from Donald J. Trump\u2019s presidency, only 5 percent of respondents referred to Jan. 6, and only 4 percent to Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Times would like to know why you morons aren\u2019t still gaping over the things they believe indisputably disqualify Trump from ever being president again.<\/p>\n<p>Covid was \u201cchaos,\u201d yet it looks like enough people now know the panic was manufactured by the hysterical media (Jake Tapper) aiming to unseat Trump. Jan. 6 was \u201cchaos,\u201d yet it looks like enough people now know it was, at worst, an inconvenient day for Washington, D.C.\u2019s incompetent police force, plus the drama queens in Congress who won\u2019t stop talking about how much they cried that day. None of it compares to what voters are going through under this president.<\/p>\n<p>I call it the media \u201cchaos\u201d paradox. What the Times neutrally declares to be \u201cchaos\u201d is not chaos. That any one event enraptures journalists and TV people in Washington, driving them to the internet and their microphones to scream, \u201c<em>UNPRECEDENTED!<\/em>\u201d doesn\u2019t require everyone else to care as much or even at all. A tweet is not chaos. A government worker being fired is not chaos. A phone call is not chaos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-891c1abbbe94dbcbe1e92fc63e69b155 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-891c1abbbe94dbcbe1e92fc63e69b155\"><\/div>\n<p>The word \u201cchaos\u201d was used in the aforementioned article four times. Though, to be sure, it\u2019s not just the Times that presses the \u201cchaos\u201d paradox. An obtuse editorial in The Wall Street Journal on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trumps-vice-presidential-opportunity-candidate-election-05e7aa64?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\">Sunday<\/a> asserted, \u201cA second Trump term is likely to be as chaotic and divisive as the first\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d co-host and main squeeze Mika Brzezinski pondered aloud last week why more people weren\u2019t sensationalized by the \u201criveting TV\u201d that is the so-called \u201chush money\u201d prosecution of Trump in New York. She didn\u2019t use the word \u201cchaos,\u201d but the sentiment was the same \u2014 <em>Don\u2019t you dummies get it?! Trump is creating more frenzy, and it\u2019s not good! It\u2019s bad! And this time a porn actress is involved! And it\u2019s sex! What more do you dummies want?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With apologies to the Marcel Marceaus of MSNBC, outside of Washington, outside of the media, it\u2019s just not that interesting. A person who has sex for money and then wanted money for sex, only to end up as a witness in a bookkeeping trial, just isn\u2019t that interesting. Looking back, a lot of people are inured by the \u201cchaos\u201d that Trump brought, but not because of Trump. It\u2019s because of the media.<\/p>\n<p>When everything is \u201cchaos,\u201d nothing is. They said everything was, and voters now know none of it was. But you know what really is chaos? Precisely the things the media say are not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a08a82ee39be71aa6c6a851077607418 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a08a82ee39be71aa6c6a851077607418\"><\/div>\n<p>Watching your <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/29\/middle-class-americans-dont-care-what-paul-krugmans-charts-say-about-inflation\/\">savings dwindle<\/a> and your debt climb? That\u2019s chaos. Witnessing your downtown decay amid roaring rent costs and business foreclosure? That\u2019s chaos. Lying awake at night wondering when the next global war directly implicating the U.S. might break out? That\u2019s chaos. Watching the border overrun by millions of Third World migrants seeking welfare in America, who are sure to make their way into neighborhoods across the nation?\u00a0That\u2019s chaos.<\/p>\n<p>For countless reasons you already know, those aren\u2019t matters of urgency for Washington and the media. To the extent they even bother to acknowledge any of them, it\u2019s to insist that the economy has never been better (as middle income-earners actively become poorer), that illegal border crossings are helpful (as local authorities cope with an influx of migrants by rationing public services to real citizens), and that \u201cviolent crime\u201d is at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saturdays-fun-fraud-facts-seven-unexplainable-results-that-reveal-democrats-didnt-even-try-to-hide-their-fraud\/\" title=\"Saturday's Fun Fraud Facts: Seven Unexplainable Results that Reveal Democrats Didn't Even Try to Hide Their Fraud\">record low<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-05\/murder-rate-mystery-new-fbi-crime-stats-don-t-include-nyc-la\">excluding Los Angeles, New York<\/a>, and also armed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjla.com\/news\/local\/violent-crime-decline-rise-youth-carjacking-arrests-washington-dc-gun-violence-juvenile-crisis-maryland-virginia-dmv\">robberies and carjackings<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, that Times survey referenced earlier did show that what a plurality of voters remember most about Trump\u2019s term in office was his \u201cpersonality.\u201d Well, yeah, because it was unlike anything history has ever seen before. But the novelty \u2014\u00a0the \u201cchaos\u201d \u2014\u00a0of that personality has long worn off now that he\u2019s out of office and the vacuum has been replaced by <em>real<\/em> chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and the media are still pretending to care about the \u201c<em>norms<\/em>\u201d and the \u201c<em>unprecedented<\/em>.\u201d But voters know actual chaos when they feel it. And they\u2019re feeling it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d211cf440590512bbf7cdb02e6d9e24d fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d211cf440590512bbf7cdb02e6d9e24d\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent New York Times coverage of the 2024 campaign highlights President Biden&#8217;s lower poll numbers compared to Trump&#8217;s, attributing it to voters forgetting Trump&#8217;s chaotic era. An article published on Friday tried to revive this narrative, suggesting voters have amnesia about the past chaos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2244024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MSNBC.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MSNBC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244023","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=2244023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}