Two articles referenced today should provide increased confidence among Trump supporters, or anyone at all who has concerns regarding the “power” of the mainstream media to influence voters. Because in reality the MSM’s leftist influence is rapidly waning.
Timothy Meads headlined a column on Monday at townhall.com/tipsheet: “Matt Drudge's 'Future' Is Now Realized, And That Has Legacy Media Enraged.”
Meads goes on to explain that: “In 1998, Drudge gave a speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in which he mapped out a future. He dreamed of a national press free of editors and beholden not to corporate masters but driven by the ever industrial spirit of the American citizen reporter.“ Drudge went on: “...clearly there is a hunger for unedited information, absent corporate considerations."
“In short, Drudge accurately predicted that the Internet would not kill media, but would make consuming news more popular than ever. The world wide web would make it easy for the average person to become a reporter. It would, however, change where and how Americans consumed their information.”
Meads closes by writing: “Now (today), there are hundreds of thousands of people just like Drudge who want to report the news. To be clear, there are certain growing pains with this development -- fake viral news for instance. Some of the folks invited to the social media summit have actually promoted lies and falsehoods, but then again so have the traditional White House outlets represented by legacy media. Even in this case, internet transparency has increased the ability of the populace to call out viral fake news rather than depending on the mainstream media to admit their mistakes.”
In case two today, Drudge’s contention regarding the general population’s access to factual information, regardless of the MSM’s attempts at distortion favorable to their cause can be seen today in an article receiving almost no coverage on a national basis.
According to Alex Moe and Jane C. Timm at nbcnews.com/politics: “The House voted on Wednesday to table a resolution from Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, to impeach President Donald Trump over racist comments he made about four Democratic congresswomen of color, effectively killing the measure.
“The vote — 332 to 95, with one lawmaker voting "present" — marked the first time the Democratic-controlled chamber had weighed in on impeachment. All Republicans joined with 137 Democrats and the lone independent, Justin Amash, to table the resolution.”
Nancy Pelosi, said that she does not support the resolution, and that "We have six committees working on following the facts in terms of any abuse of power, obstruction of justice and the rest that the president may have engaged in," she said at a news conference. "That is the serious path we’re on — not that Mr. Green is not serious, but we'll deal with that on the floor."
However, after providing considerable more verbiage regarding the possibility of future House action against the POTUS, writers Moe and Timm finally arrive at a far more probable conclusion as they write: “More than 80 members of the House have called for opening an impeachment inquiry, but some Democratic leaders have resisted, fearing that it would distract from the party's policy agenda, could rally Trump's base, isn't popular with the public and is doomed to fail in the Republican-controlled Senate.
“A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that enthusiasm for impeachment may be waning: The July survey found 21 percent of registered voters say that there is enough evidence for Congress to begin impeachment hearings now. In June, 27 percent in the poll the same thing, a 6-point drop in one month — though that survey was of Americans, not registered voters.”
All of which seems to indicate clearly that despite the MSM’s efforts to apply what was once was considerable influence over voters, in the real world today the POTUS doesn’t actually have very much to worry about regarding his job performance nor future reelection.
That’s it for today folks.
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