Today’s paragraphs come to us from Michael Sainato, writing for the New York Observer.
Here, from his latest commentary, is what Mr. Sainato has to say about mainstream media’s ongoing love affair with Hillary Clinton, and what it is doing to their party of preference:
The pro-Clinton public relations efforts that the mainstream media backs undermine efforts to resist to Donald Trump and hinder the Democratic Party’s ability to recoup its losses. Nothing helps Trump and Republicans more than treating the Clintons as spokespersons for the Democratic Party, yet this is what the mainstream media enables in their uncritical reporting of every public appearance or tweet made by Hillary Clinton. Chelsea and Bill Clinton also receive similar celebrity-esque coverage.
On July 5, Hillary Clinton tweeted back at the GOP, which pointed out that she admitted Obamacare was flawed. Several news outlets, including the New York Daily News, Mic, Huffington Post, Newsweek, and Business Insider covered the tweet exchange, calling it an “epic tweet.” This type of pro-Clinton reporting is still widely employed by several mainstream media outlets. By doing so, they rehabilitate the Clinton’s brand by excusing her loss and rebuild the case for the Democratic Party to avoid reforms. For the last decade, the party’s structure has depended on her becoming president, and the party’s leadership and allies in the media don’t intend to amend this strategy.
I award Michael Sainato Paragraphs Of The Day honors for, in so few words, so completely encapsulating media’s pathological clinging to the Clinton brand, no matter how poorly she presents herself and her party. Between this, and their sycophantic eight years with Barack Obama, it would be hard to overstate the damage this has caused Democrats.
One look at the makeup of congress, the governorships and the statehouses then, and now, tells the tale.
But partisanship is partisanship. It prevents people from seeing things as they are. And that certainly applies to our media.
As that great 1933 Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach classic song says, “When your heart’s on fire, smoke gets in your eyes”.
