Wave goodbye to the Obama media
We could go on. The point is that many in the press are every bit as corrupt as conservatives have accused them of being. The good news is, it’s almost over. The broadcast networks, the big daily newspapers, the newsweeklies — they’re done. It’s only a matter of time, and everyone who works there knows it. That may be why so many of them seem tapped out, lazy and enervated, unwilling to stray from the same tired story lines. Some days they seem engaged only on Twitter, where they spend hours preening for one another and sneering at outsiders.
By the next presidential cycle most of these people will be gone. They’ll have moved on to academia or think tanks or Democratic senate campaigns, or wherever aging hacks go when their union contracts finally, inevitably get voided. They’ll be replaced by a vibrant digital marketplace filled with hungry young reporters who care more about breaking stories than maintaining access to some politician or regulator.
All of this was probably inevitable, but it came faster than expected. Through their dishonesty the legacy media hastened their own end. Their moral authority has evaporated. So has their business model. Wave them goodbye on the way out.
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The long knives are out.
Gonna’ be an interesting rest of the year.
cozmo on November 5, 2012 at 8:44 PM
I hope so.
dukecitygirl on November 5, 2012 at 8:44 PM
I’d like to do something and is sure isn’t waving.
Dack Thrombosis on November 5, 2012 at 8:48 PM
Thanks for nothing Charles Krauthammer. What is this obsession with saying that Obama turned the whole race by showing up in new jersey for the hurricane? That’s obscene. He showed up for what, 3 hours, hugged the fat man, and now he deserves 4 more years? What idiot thinks that way?!
BettyRuth on November 5, 2012 at 8:49 PM
Carlson is dreaming. He’s delusional.
faraway on November 5, 2012 at 8:49 PM
these guys sound like flower children from the days of my youth.
“hungry young reporters” LOL, what drivel. what tripe!. hungry till they become fat slobbering pigs like chris matthews that is.
no folks, the msm will never die. we just need to create a viable alternative, and fox doesn’t cut the mustard.
renalin on November 5, 2012 at 8:50 PM
Remain calm.
faraway on November 5, 2012 at 8:51 PM
Ditto.
BobMbx on November 5, 2012 at 8:52 PM
If you think I’m going let this bushel of cull tomatoes go to waste, you’re crazy.
Dusty on November 5, 2012 at 8:53 PM
I’ll wave with my middle fingers.
farright on November 5, 2012 at 8:53 PM
Their influence is declining, but it will still be a long time before they are done for.
There needs to be another FoxNews, and there needs to be several more conservatives in the White House Press Corps.
WisCon on November 5, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Wrong. When Romney is elected, we’ll see a 180 degree shift in MSM interest in the activity of the POTUS, his administration, his family, and thoroughly investigate the propriety of having a garage with an elevator.
BobMbx on November 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM
After all they have done for the people of this country, I want to see them retire to the good life they deserve – cold, alone, hungry and living in a refrigerator box under an overpass.
Karma is such a bitch.
drunyan8315 on November 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Muck the Fain Stream Media.
One of the great things about the Obungler era has been the total, professional destruction of the MSM. Who, in their right mind, could take them seriously ever again? I, as a conservative will not, and those on the left will guess whatever the media spout is pure propaganda–crap meant for the sycophant choir.
Thomas More on November 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM
I want to see them retire to the simple life they deserve: cold, hungry and alone, living in an appliance box under a bridge.
drunyan8315 on November 5, 2012 at 9:03 PM
It won’t be the Obama media anymore, it will be the attack-Romney media. The change will be in name only.
hepcat on November 5, 2012 at 9:10 PM
I hope it is true. America cannot survive with this corrupt legacy media. What say you, CBS?
d1carter on November 5, 2012 at 9:13 PM
Staten Island, are you with us?
faraway on November 5, 2012 at 9:13 PM
Amen.
beatcanvas on November 5, 2012 at 9:14 PM
As much as I’d like to believe . . .
I suspect it is far more likely that the MSMs will suddenly rediscover their roots in hard-hitting investigative journalism.
You know, the stuff they put on the back of the top shelf of the hall closet when it was needed for Fast & Furious, Benghazi, Solyndra, A123, etc.etc
kurtzz3 on November 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM
..you may despise BOREilly (as I do) but go back and look again at Krauthammer’s remark. He still insist that Romney wins; just that Sandy stopped the +5 ride Romney was on.
The War Planner on November 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM
Exactly. They’ll still be around, only instead of providing CYA for Obama’s malfeasance and/or writing fawning, feel-good stories about their messiah and his wonderful family, they’ll be digging through the trash cans of Mitt Romney’s sons and daughters-in-law and their kids and their friends, trying to find any dirt they can use (or manufacture) to humiliate and embarass Mitt.
AZCoyote on November 5, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Exactly.
SAZMD on November 5, 2012 at 9:32 PM
I agree. The Sandy meme is stupid. There is much work to be done. I believe the last 5 Fox News polls were all D40 and above. Brain dead. The MSM is corrupt. Fox is largely stupid.
Basilsbest on November 5, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Plenty of people believed all of their biased attacks on Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, although that’s when conservatives became concerned about the leftward tilt. Nobody cared if they bashed Tricky Dick about Watergate, which was such a journalistic coup they kept up the “investigative reporter” facade until Reagan was elected.
The media started going easy on the Democratic presidents after seeing how their “aggressive” stories spotlighting Carter’s defects actually helped defeat him (they knew the damage they did to Johnson earlier, but the elite media-types never really liked LBJ and weren’t sorry to see him go).
To some extent the media have been “restrained” (relatively speaking) in their attacks on Romney after seeing the backlash from their more egregiously unbalanced faux-news stories (dogs, birds, and what have you).
They tiptoed around the issue of religion because attacking Romney there would have opened the door to reprisals about Obama’s preacher; finally backed off from Bain because of Obama’s own financial interests and administration ties to the company; and reduced their histrionics on Hispanic immigration because the President was all talk and no walk.
(Kudos to the Alternative Media for keeping up the pressure.)
With Obama gone, nothing will prevent the MSM cohorts from returning to all of these topics and more, with gnashing teeth and rolling eyes, and there will be plenty of people willing to buy their garbage and call it ambrosia.
Or maybe arugula.
AesopFan on November 5, 2012 at 9:40 PM
May they all suffocate from what they consume, Obama’s sh*t, not Beluga caviar, the fools.
Those who don’t, spontaneously combust from dereliction of duty. You don’t desere to hold your jobs. You are the bane and the shame of the land.
Schadenfreude on November 5, 2012 at 9:40 PM
Always glad to see confirmation of my brilliance on the comments that come in while I’m composing!
AesopFan on November 5, 2012 at 9:43 PM
ouch
hawkdriver on November 5, 2012 at 10:01 PM