Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump

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42. The main way to get to those "local" papers is via AP or Reuters

(and occasionally UPI) as those are the most prolific news aggregators that feed national and international stories down to the local levels.

The fact that the NYT, WaPo, Newsweek, Time, etc are an influencer of the "urban and highly educated", doesn't mean that what they are writing about resonates with the rural, home-schooled crowd. Many of us laughed at and ridiculed the Joni Ernsts of the world talking about "castrating pigs" and whatnot, but obviously she "spoke" to some segment of her state.

The big city print media was pounding all during last year's election season, but the gasbags on teevee chose to go with their own narratives and push for the false equivalency in order to appear "balanced" - and that was made worse when they had the Jeffrey Lords and Kellyanne Conways and Joe Walshs spouting mile-a-minute bullshit while the hosts sat there mute refusing to fact check. You had people like Schmuck Toad claim "it wasn't their job" to fact check (although his whiny excuse was that he "meant" that it wasn't "his job" to promote the ACA, yet that wasn't our argument against him and his ilk - it WAS his job to not allow false info about the ACA to be vomited forth unabated - including crap like "death panels&quot .

Many variations of the stories that we see making it to the broadcast outlets NOW, were out there BEFORE, but broadcast refused to discuss it and when they did, the hosts allowed it to be batted down by the same non-credible loons that have been out there for decades spewing nonsense, like a Gingrich or a Sununu, and the topics were left muddled by people like Tweety or Andrea Greenspan among others. The days of "common sense" anchors and pundits are sadly gone (at least for now), as the industry has matured and morphed into something else since the early days of Cronkite and Brinkley. The broadcast news shops were merged with the entertainment divisions (a la the film "Network" from 1976), which spelled the end of news as we know it (at least on the traditional network/cable news outlets), and we are living the result.

As they say - "follow the money" and broadcast does just that. However, since the "controversy" of a Watergate redux is now the story of the day, the broadcast media has only now reluctantly picked it up because, RATINGS. Nothing has changed regarding the print media putting the info out there.