If a fair and balanced media is essential to a healthy democracy then it would seem American democracy is in big trouble. The big corporate mainstream media has given up any pretence of fairness and balance as day after day comes the full on assault on nearly every move and utterance of Donald Trump.
For some inexplicable reason Australia's media also seem to be engaged in constant Trump bashing particularly (no surprise) the ABC! All this points to something which has been obvious for a long time; the mainstream media is little more than a propaganda apparatus for the corporate globalist leftist liberal agenda.
In a time when gay marriage and transgender bathroom rights are considered the most pressing social and civil rights issues it's not difficult to conclude that leftist liberalism has itself become extreme. No wonder then that a figure like Trump has emerged who perhaps mirrors the leftist liberals in their extremism.
The mainstream media's very obvious bias against Trump and abandonment of fairness and balance only adds to the suspicion of many that global elites are intent on imposing a leftist liberal agenda and "democracy" goes out the window if it threatens to produce a result not in accordance with their "enlightened" ideas and plan!
"The media’s legions of Trump-bashers are finally acknowledging the obvious.
But there’s one problem: Tilting against one candidate in a presidential election can’t be justified.
This is not a defense of Donald Trump, who has been at war with much of the press since he got in the race. Too many people think if you criticize the way the billionaire is being covered, you are somehow backing Trump.
And it’s not about the commentators, on the right as well as the left, who are savaging Trump, since they are paid for their opinions.
This is about the mainstream media’s reporters, editors and producers, whose credo is supposed to be fairness."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/09/media-justify-anti-trump-bias-claim-hes-too-dangerous-for-normal-rules.html
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