Monday, July 3, 2017

BloggeRhythms

Today’s another rife with huge discrepancies between what the mainstream media would have audiences believe about the POTUS’s performance and the truthful results.   

To begin, an update follows on the “Drudge Poll” posted yesterday that asked “Should President Trump use socials?”

At present, 77.24% (349,766 votes) favor continuance of his “Tweeting.”

22.76%  (103,055 votes) believe he should “Delete.”

While an overwhelming number of respondents obviously enjoy having their president communicate directly with them, Trump's policies too are working far better than the media would have its readers believe.

An example comes from no less than the ordinarily anti-Trump New York Times in article by Kirk Semple this morning @nytimes.com.

Semple writes about Honduran, Eswin Josué Fuentes, who planned to “slip into the United States within days,” along with his 10-year-old daughter. However “the night before he planned to leave, he had a phone conversation with a Honduran friend living illegally in New York. 

Under President Trump, the friend warned, the United States was no longer a place for undocumented migrants.”

Passing up $12,000 in smuggler fees his sister in the U. S. had lined up for the journey, Fuentes said: “I got scared of what’s happening there.”

According to Semple: Trump’s “hard-line approach to immigration already seems to have led to sharp declines in the flow of migrants from Central America bound for the United States.

“From February through May, the number of undocumented immigrants stopped or caught along the southwest border of the United States fell 60 percent from the same period last year, according to United States Customs and Border Protection — evidence that far fewer migrants are heading north, officials on both sides of the border say.”

“Inside the United States, the Trump administration has cast a broader enforcement net, including reversing Obama-era rules that put a priority on arresting serious criminals and mostly left other undocumented immigrants alone. Arrests of immigrants living illegally in the United States have soared, with the biggest increase coming among those migrants with no criminal records.

“The shift has sown a new sense of fear among undocumented immigrants in the United States. In turn, they have sent a warning back to relatives and friends in their homelands: Don’t come.”

Reader, LB from Florida commented: “Too bad it took Trump to remind the world (and the US establishment) that the US is a sovereign nation with borders, not merely a place to do business. The Democrats will not turn their party around and start winning nationwide until they learn this lesson that Americans demand border enforcement.”

Despite the source being the New York Times 119 others “Recommended’ the article.

Another reader, Heather from San Francisco, added: “Many people, right and left, want our borders enforced. For decades, the Republican party refused to do anything about illegal immigration because their business clients profited from the cheap labor. And the Democratic party refused to do anything because their "open borders" activists insisted that enforcing immigration laws was racist (although Obama did increase deportations of criminals). Now we have Trump, who is doing something about illegal immigration, however clumsy, unfair, and occasionally illegal. I will never support Trump, but apparently many others will just because of this issue. The mainstream leaders of both parties need to get with it.” 

96 more “Recommended” this one.

Aside from the strides made in curbing illegal immigration even before the proposed wall is yet to begin construction, another positive report comes from Sho Chandra @bloomberg.com regarding the economy.

“American factories powered up in June at the fastest pace in nearly three years, with robust advances in production, orders and employment that indicate a firming in the economy, data from the Institute for Supply Management showed Monday.

“Faster growth in orders and production in the final month of the quarter indicates solid demand that, together with rising exports, shows manufacturing is on solid footing. The ISM’s pulse of employment in the industry also indicates the government’s measure of factory payrolls, released as part of the Labor Department’s jobs report on Friday, will rebound in June after declining a month earlier.

Most importantly: “The expansion was broad based, with 15 of 18 industries surveyed by the purchasing managers’ group posting growth in June. They included machinery, transportation equipment, computer and electronic products, and petroleum and coal products. The three reporting contractions were apparel, textile mills and primary metals.”

Other Details include:
  • “Measure of export orders climbed to 59.5 in June from 57.5
  • Employment gauge increased to 57.2 from 53.5
  • Production index rose to 62.4, highest since February, from 57.1
  • A gauge of supplier delivery times advanced to 57, the highest since December 2014, from 53.1, indicating deliveries are taking longer
  • Order backlogs measure rose to 57 from 55
  • Index of prices paid dropped to 55, lowest since November, from 60.5”
While the economy continues its positive turnaround, the often quoted Michael Goodwin, @nypost.com this morning, addressed “Why the media has broken down in the age of Trump.”

In presenting his theory regarding the media’s move away from fact oriented, opinion-free reportage, Goodwin includes substantial references to his own long-term career in the very same environment. 

Goodwin writes: “In a “spate of stories, which continues today, in which the Times routinely calls Trump a liar in its news pages and headlines. Again, the contrast with the past is striking. The Times never called Barack Obama a liar, despite such obvious opportunities as “you can keep your doctor” and “the Benghazi attack was caused by an internet video.” Indeed, the Times and the Washington Post, along with most of the White House press corps, spent eight years cheerleading the Obama administration, seeing not a smidgen of corruption or dishonesty. They have been tougher on Hillary Clinton during her long career. But they still never called her a liar, despite such doozies as “I set up my own computer server so I would only need one device,” “I turned over all the government emails,” and “I never sent or received classified emails.” All those were lies, but not to the national media. Only statements by Trump were fair game.

“If I haven’t made it clear, let me do so now. The behavior of much of the media, but especially the New York Times, was a disgrace. I don’t believe it ever will recover the public trust it squandered.”

Coming to the crux of his premise regarding the loss of mainstream media audience, Goodwin  writes: ''Incredible advances in technology are also on the side of free speech. The explosion of choices makes it almost impossible to silence all dissent and gain a monopoly, though certainly Facebook and Google are trying.”

As to what the future holds, Goodwin believes the main ingredient is the audience itself, and that: “[A] necessary ingredient in determining where we go from here [is] you. I urge you to support the media you like. As the great writer and thinker Midge Decter once put it, “You have to join the side you’re on.” It’s no secret that newspapers and magazines are losing readers and money and shedding staff. 

“Some of them are good newspapers. Some of them are good magazines. There are also many wonderful, thoughtful, small publications and websites that exist on a shoestring. Don’t let them die. Subscribe or contribute to those you enjoy. Give subscriptions to friends. Put your money where your heart and mind are. An expanded media landscape that better reflects the diversity of public preferences would, in time, help create a more level political and cultural arena. That would be a great thing. So again I urge you: Join the side you’re on.”

It’s truly an excellent, information-packed media chronology from one who’s lived through all that he writes about. Here’s a link:http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/why-the-media-has-broken-down-in-the-age-of-trump/

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

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