{"id":89982,"date":"2017-11-28T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89982"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:16:38","slug":"unhinged-coverage-of-trump-is-hurting-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89982","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged coverage of Trump is hurting the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Kyle Smith
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n

Turn down the volume. Unclench your fist. Turn the dial back down from 11. Trump isn\u2019t going anywhere for a while. Deal with it.<\/p>\n

A year ago this week,\u00a0I marveled at the pot-boiling-over frenzy of Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome in the media<\/a>. Well, today, the media\u2019s kitchen is a shambles. Spaghetti sauce is splattered all over the walls, and the Fourth Estate is pouring more Prego marinara into the pot while keeping the heat turned up to the level marked \u201cthermonuclear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only is everything (still) hyper-politicized, but the lines between news media, lifestyle media and flat-out activism have faded into irrelevance. On Wednesday, the lead story in Teen Vogue, next to stories about how \u201cI Will Never Use Regular Soap Again After THIS $6 Foam Body Wash\u201d and \u201cEveryone Basically Wore Lingerie to the VS Fashion Show After Party,\u201d was this screaming headline: \u201cThe United States Voted \u2018No\u2019 on an Anti-Nazi UN Resolution.\u201d It ran over a terrifying picture of crowds carrying banners, some featuring swastikas, with smoke in the background suggesting a terror attack. Only when you click through do you discover that there is no news here whatsoever: The US votes against this meaningless, nonbinding UN gambit every year because the US has this thing called the First Amendment. President Barack Obama\u2019s appointees also opposed the resolution.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, \u201cBlack-ish\u201d star Tracee Ellis Ross addressed a Women of the Year Summit earlier this month hosted by Glamour magazine. Her speech was ostensibly about being 45 and childless, but it could easily have been made by a women\u2019s-studies professor at Barnard instead of a sitcom star: \u201cI look back and think about all the ways we\u2019re told that those two goals: being chosen and having kids, are what makes you worthy .\u2009.\u2009. this narrow story of \u2018husband plus child equals woman.\u2019 And the patriarchy \u2014 the patriarchy is not pleased with me right now. I\u2019m failing at my function. Let me tell you, Mike Pence is f\u2014ing confused by me right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems unlikely that Vice President Pence is wandering around the White House buttonholing aides and saying, \u201cMy gosh, did you know that Tracee Ellis Ross is 45 and is unmarried with no children? I\u2019m so confused by this information!\u201d At the same Glamour magazine event, Congresswoman Maxine Waters called out, \u201cYou recognize when a leader is dangerous\u201d and got the crowd chanting, \u201cImpeach him! Impeach him!\u201d<\/p>\n

These days the drop-down menu on the website for Teen Vogue has \u201cFashion\u201d in the No. 2 spot. No. 1 is \u201cNews and Politics.\u201d Its latest edition stars Hillary Clinton on the cover alongside the headline, \u201cNevertheless, WE RESIST.\u201d Readers resisted right back.<\/p>\n

Teen Vogue has done so badly trading teen fixations for lefty harrumphing that this latest issue, which is also guest-edited by Her Hillaryness, will be the last to hit newsstands.<\/p>\n

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The culture warriors\u2019 incessant politicization of everything has reached new levels of the ridiculous. At Newsweek on Monday, a story about a sociological study that revealed women like men who appear to be strong and wealthy was headlined in all caps: \u201cMEN WITH MUSCLES AND MONEY ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE TO STRAIGHT WOMEN AND GAY MEN \u2014 SHOWING GENDER ROLES AREN\u2019T PROGRESSING.\u201d What\u2019s more, this story was filed under \u201cTech & Science\u201d rather than \u201cOpinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over at Cosmopolitan, they\u2019ve been running headlines like \u201cThis Theory About Why Donald Trump Actually Won the Election Will Leave You Worrying About Humankind.\u201d Suddenly Cosmo\u2019s unofficial motto is \u201cHot Sex Tips \u2014 and Why You Should Be Worrying About Humankind.\u201d The GQ Resistance, meanwhile, is being run by the left-leaning Keith Olbermann, whose style is reflected in pieces with titles like \u201cIt\u2019s Your Civic Duty to Ruin Thanksgiving by Bringing Up Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unhinged coverage of all Trump scandals, real and imagined, has cost the media in the eyes of the public, among whom only 39 percent said they had a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or even \u201csome\u201d confidence in news outlets last November.<\/p>\n

In the following months, the media tried to sell the idea that Trump supporters had been conned by \u201cfake news\u201d (based on a minuscule amount of Russian spending on Facebook propaganda that added up to the cost of less than a single airing of one commercial on a prime-time network TV show). But the cry of \u201cfake news\u201d was thrown right back in their face by Trump fans who sensed the claim was simply an attempt to distract from uncomfortable truths about Clinton\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p>\n

As of last month, still only 48 percent of Americans said they trusted the media, with 45 percent saying they have \u201chardly any\u201d confidence in it. In other words, it\u2019s basically a coin flip as to whether any given American thinks the media is just making stuff up. They aren\u2019t, usually. But with every fashion glossy and sitcom star still beating a drum for Hillary a year after the election, while bashing Trump and everything he stands for from the front page to the sports section, can you blame people for losing respect for the press?<\/p>\n

The media are correct in thinking they have an important duty in the Trump era. But the people are correct in noticing that the media is filtering everything through an obsessive hatred for Trump.<\/p>\n

Kyle Smith is critic-at-large for National Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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