{"id":105889,"date":"2016-09-08T00:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105889"},"modified":"2016-09-08T00:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:25:44","slug":"journos-trump-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105889","title":{"rendered":"Journos, Trump &#038; Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/nyt-trump-is-signaling-to-sinister-alt-right-by-saying-well-being-of-the-american-people-is-core-issue-in-the-immigration-debate\/\">Comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* I also suspect that journalists know that a big downsizing is fast approaching for the entire journalist\/media landscape. If Trump wins, how many billionaires decide that their discount propaganda outlets aren\u2019t worth keeping afloat? The journalists have to announce their virtue to each other, but I suspect, they\u2019re also advertising their loyalty as good thinking hacks to their de facto paymasters.<\/p>\n<p>Or if Hillary wins, they\u2019ll have served their purpose and there\u2019ll be no need to keep them on staff anymore. I doubt Jeff Bezos or Carlos Slim care about the career prospects of the journalism grads in their employ.<\/p>\n<p>A lot will end up unemployed so there\u2019s an incentive to signal that you\u2019re the most rabid attack dog against your sugar daddy\u2019s corporate enemy. There\u2019s no money in being reasonable or middle of the road if you know you\u2019re dancing for your supper.<\/p>\n<p>* Funniest part of the op-ed was this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough his online writings and YouTube channel, Mr. Spencer is a key player in the social-media universe where this core group of Trump supporters get their \u201cnews,\u201d from sources with which most people aren\u2019t familiar\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no! Sources with which \u2018most people aren\u2019t familiar\u2019! Mayday, mayday! Scare quotes around \u201cnews\u201d \u2013 if only those idiotic Trump supporters weren\u2019t so sub-literate and raaaaacist, they\u2019d be tattooing Charles Blow\u2019s prose on their body and awaiting the columns of our controlled opposition, David Brooks and Ross Douthat, like manna from heaven!<\/p>\n<p>Blast the NPR and don\u2019t you dare change the channel from PBS \u2013 the NYT editorial board\u2019s mandatory re-education awaits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments: * I also suspect that journalists know that a big downsizing is fast approaching for the entire journalist\/media landscape. If Trump wins, how many billionaires decide that their discount propaganda outlets aren\u2019t worth keeping afloat? The journalists have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105891,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105889\/revisions\/105891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}