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Several items today accentuate the point that except to their hard core base on the left, the mainstream media has very little importance whatsoever. And that’s because, instead of simply reporting news as they should, leftist outlets have become political propagandists.  

An example in point can be seen in the numerous articles in the MSM making assumptions in varying degrees that the POTUS will be found guilty of something or other now that a Special Counsel’s been named. 

On the other hand, good news regarding the administration hardly rates any front page coverage from the MSM  at all, such as the following business report @hosted.ap.org:

“Ford is pumping $350 million into a plant outside of Detroit where a new transmission for fuel-efficient vehicles will be built.” 

Ford said Friday that “the investment in the Livonia Transmission Plant is expected to create or keep 800 jobs. Some jobs are expected to be added this year, but most will be filled over the next two years. 

“Upgrades to the Livonia facility are part of more than $2.25 billion in investments in the state announced this year by Ford Motor Co.” 

Confirming data regarding media bias is found today @heatst.com where the Heat Street Staff reports: “A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump. 

“Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.” 

Analysis of CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal found that “the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations.” 

Taking the BBC, the UK’s Financial Times and the German public broadcaster ARD into account as well revealed that “every outlet was negative more often than positive. 

“Only Fox News, which features some of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters and is often given special access to the President, even came close to positivity. 

“Fox was ranked 52% negative and 48% positive. 

When it came to particular topics, the report found that on “immigration, healthcare, and Russia, more than 85% of reports were negative. 

“On the economy, the proportion was more balanced – 54% negative to 46% positive.” 

There was only one exception where Trump got overwhelmingly positive coverage. “Around 80% of all reports were positive” about the cruise missile attack on Syria. 

“The picture was very different for other recent administrations. The study found that President Obama’s first 100 days got a good write-up overall – with 59% of reports positive. Bill Clinton and George W Bush got overall negative coverage, it found, but to a much lesser extent than Trump. Clinton’s first 100 days got 40% positivity, while Bush’s got 43%.” 

A reader, lobo121148, provided as accurate and detailed a summary of the findings as one is likely to find anywhere: “FOX was at 52-48 which is what I call being as FAIR/BALANCED and UNBIASED as humanly possible. I've watched ALL the news networks for over 50 yrs including PBS and ALL of them except FOX have gone so far LEFT they are NOT news organizations anymore, they're MEDIA OUTLETS for the DEMS/LIBERAL-Progressive agenda's. The ONLY surprise HERE is that it came out of HARVARD a BASTION of Liberalism. How will the LIBERALS spin THIS to make it either PDT or PUTIN'S fault? Stay tuned, you KNOW they'll DOWNPLAY this study because it DOESN'T fir the narrative they want the SNOWFLAKES to believe.” 

While the MSM’s blatant support of the left has become glaringly obvious, their continual shortsightedness combined with their credibility loss is now beginning to accumulate against them.    

Jeff Poor reports today @breitbart.com: “Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley argued the appointment of a special counsel to investigate ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia could be a positive for President Donald Trump. 

“Turley made the case that it could be the only way to clear his name, noting that if it had been done by Trump’s Justice Department, there might have still been doubts. 

“Well, there’s a curiosity here that this actually could be good news for the Trump administration,” Turley said. “I said a week ago that they should be asking for a special counsel. The only way that President Trump could possibly clear his name after his own comments and controversy would be for someone who was beyond reproach, beyond question to render the decision. Had the Justice Department resolved this question, many on the Hill would not be satisfied because of everything that’s happened. So this may be the price of hubris. This was almost inevitable when the Comey memo hit.” 

In a similar scenario, during the question and answer portion of the J.P. Morgan Chase annual meeting, “a number of shareholders” called on chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon “to publicly disavow Trump and his policies, particularly Trump’s immigration stance.” 

John Carney @breitbart.com, reports that at the meeting, Dimon listened to several speeches from shareholders before he responded by telling “a hostile crowd of shareholders Tuesday morning that he supports President Donald Trump out of a sense of patriotic duty 

“He is the president of the United States, he is the pilot flying the airplane. I’d try to help any president of the US because I’m a patriot. That does not mean I agree with every policy he is trying to implement,” Dimon said. 

“Dimon has compared the president to an airplane pilot in the past. “When you get on the airplane, you better be rooting for the success of the pilot,” Dimon said at a townhall event hosted by Yahoo Finance in April.” 

While Chairman Dimon’s response didn’t produce the answers anti-Trump stockholders had hoped for, resulting in support for the POTUS instead, another instance illustrates another leftist significant setback.   

Warner Todd Huston, also @breitbart.com writes about Kellogg’s which has “been struggling over the last few years, so much so that by 2016 customer confidence in its brand name had fallen from 60th to 84th place.” 

Today’s reportage concerns continuing mass layoffs, “this time focusing on its distribution center in Weston, Florida, where up to 246 workers have now lost their jobs."

News of the cuts came on the heels of several announcements by the cereal maker that it was slashing its workforce. 

“The company’s fall from grace coincided with Kellogg’s decision last year to cease advertising with Breitbart News, thereby snubbing Breitbart’s 45,000,000 readers. 

“In November of last year, Kellogg noted that the conservative readers at Breitbart News are not “aligned with our values as a company.” 

“While the decision by Kellogg to cease advertising made virtually no revenue impact on Breitbart.com., it did represent an escalation in the war by leftist companies like Target and Allstate against conservative customers whose values propelled Donald Trump into the White House.” 

As reported by the Sun-Sentinel: “The layoffs in Florida are but a small part of the string of losses announced recently. Among other announcements, nearly 300 were fired in [Kellogg] facilities in New York early in May, and only a week later another 219 lost their jobs in Minnesota.” 

While the Kellogg’s business losses may be a true indication of the effect of alternative news resources such as Breitbart, “a new survey by Pew Research Center shows a stark divide between what Republicans and Democrats think of the media and its role as a watchdog of the federal government.” 

The two sides “now disagree more than ever on a fundamental issue of the news media’s role in society: whether news organizations’ criticism of political leaders primarily keeps them from doing things they shouldn’t – or keeps them from doing their job,” Pew reported about its survey. 

“Nine of 10 Democrats — or 89 percent — said the news media criticism keeps politicians in line, while only one in four Republicans assess the media that way. 

“That is a 47-percentage-point gap, according to a new online survey conducted March 13-27, 2017, among 4,151 U.S. adults who are members of Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel,” Pew reported.” 

Thus, it seems that Republicans are far more prone to make decisions on their own. As opposed to Democrats reliance on others regarding major responsibilities. 

Yet, in important situations, such as a business like Kellogg’s involving itself in politics where it doesn’t belong, Republicans seem to reach the appropriate conclusions quite well on their own.
 
That’s it for today folks. 

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