{"id":22287,"date":"2017-02-01T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=22287"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:59:32","slug":"trump-media-dumb-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2017\/02\/trump-media-dumb-dumber.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Media: Dumb and Dumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/633089772\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/633089772?et=xPP6bEkyTTZlKIptqfimeA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=SXXW-nZv7pKyFcUAia4h9KRiKcbfX0R7lJWK2EmbXtg=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The left clearly don\u2019t like President Trump\u2019s edict suspending travel from seven countries, but their hysterical hyperbole over the whole matter isn\u2019t going to do them any favors.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order might be dumb. The media\u2019s response is dumber.<\/p>\n<p>This post really isn\u2019t about the order itself or about Trump. It is\u00a0about the hypocrisy and stupidity of the mainstream media. I have written about it more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2017\/01\/trump-travel-ban-malicious-media-dwight-longenecker.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my post today<\/a> at Imaginative Conservative.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of it is, the media are lying about this issue. When they call Trump\u2019s executive order \u201cTrump\u2019s Muslim Ban\u201d they\u2019re shooting themselves in the foot.<\/p>\n<p>The more they lie to the American people, the more people are going to go over to Trump. The more they try their old tricks of publishing \u201cpolls\u201d, pushing protests, hyping hypocrisy and swamping us with sentimentality (weeping congressmen? Really?) \u00a0The more ordinary Americans will walk away from the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>They still haven\u2019t got the message that the whole core of media communication has shifted. They are still working on the basis of mainstream media being \u201cbroadcasted\u201d\u2013which means it goes out to the widest possible audience and delivers objective news. This isn\u2019t how people get their news anymore.<\/p>\n<p>They get their news through \u201cnarrowcast\u201d\u2013which means they pick and choose from where they get their news, and they usually (unfortunately) get their news from the particular channel that reinforces\u00a0their particular bias.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media has unconsciously become another narrowcast channel. It is composed of\u00a0and feeds the coastal, liberal elite, and despite their massive defeat in the Clinton Disaster, they still think they are the voice of the America people.<\/p>\n<p>The worst thing about this is that if they continue to be dumb about this they will help to bring about even more division in our country, and their own decline will be hastened.<\/p>\n<p>What we desperately need is not a right wing paper or network or a left wing paper and network, but balanced, objective, intelligent and informed news source.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlongenecker1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Twitter<\/a>: \u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/standingonmyheadblog\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images \u00a0 The left clearly don\u2019t like President Trump\u2019s edict suspending travel from seven countries, but their hysterical hyperbole over the whole matter isn\u2019t going to do them any favors. The executive order might be dumb. The media\u2019s response is dumber. This post really isn\u2019t about the order itself or about Trump. 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