Wow - A surprising article - and in Vanity Fair no less....
Maybe the Right-Wing Media Isn’t Crazy, After All
After Trump, can the media escape the confirmation bias trap that it has set for itself?
"Virtually every day during the past year, I’ve digested a daily dose of
Breitbart, the alt-right Web site that many journalists, including myself, have
described as “Trump Pravda.” A typical day on Breitbart includes any number of articles extolling the rise of
Donald Trump, including the massive size of his rallies and (on and off) his fast-rising poll numbers. There are also several pieces attacking the “mainstream media,” usually CNN,
The New York Times or
The Washington Post. Recently, there have been a slew of
pieces from the Clinton WikiLeaks cache, which are part of a larger set of articles showcasing the couple’s venality, arrogance, and sexual peccadillos. The reporting, such as it is, is generally factually accurate, but mean-spirited and fantastically one-sided. If Breitbart were your primary news source, you would receive a view of the election that would be largely distorted and wholly unrecognizable to swaths of the American public.
When I checked the news the other day, it was more of the same. I counted some 20 articles about the presidential race, each espousing the unequivocal view that one candidate is collapsing due to moral failings, financial improprieties, and complete and utter lack of judgment and ethics. Notably, I was not reading Breitbart. Instead, I was reading
The Washington Post, delivered to my doorstep, and the attacks were squarely waged not against the Clintons but rather against Trump..."
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/the-right-wing-media-isnt-crazy
I'm not going to go overboard though - in the end, it's merely an obvious observation, coming too late to have any impact on this election, and will be forgotten by the next one.......