Like the government the fawning media of the day tries so hard to emulate, mainstream media has now given itself authority over the masses--including aspiring Republican presidential hopefuls--to which it has no right.
Fox News, which came onto the media world as providers of “the fair and balanced” news, are now coming on just like Obama, having proved before 24 million viewers, it’s now going to be their way or the highway.
Until We the People find a legal way to get around their destructive polices, they have to put up with Big Government in office.
But the mainstream media known as America’s number one cable television network wasn’t voted in and can be sent packing by people merely changing the channel.
Fox News has been crowing and gloating about their ratings ever since the dubious ‘debate’.
The 24 million viewers who watched the debate means there’ll be no coming back for Fox News now in run-away ego mode.
It should go without saying that Fox News and any other high-handed media outlet that takes it upon itself to change the game plan has no real authority over the people.
If Fox News wants to upstage Republican presidential hopefuls, hogging most of the limelight on their first presentation to the voting public, then the hopefuls don’t have to offer themselves as future fodder.
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It almost seems that someone over at Fox News died, leaving dirt-digging Megyn Kelly as boss.
But in stealing the show from the Republican presidential hopefuls, ‘Preen Queen’ Kelly and her colleagues are not much different than ‘I am Cait’ over on Reality TV. Caitlyn -- really Bruce Jenner -- decided to foist transitioning his gender on a television viewing public. That’s why Kelly and Company, who made Thursday night’s first GOP contenders debate all about them, foisting their new act as entertainers rather than moderators on the television viewing world, are in the same category as Bruce.
With the novelty of ABC’s Diane Sawyer’s “exclusive” interview of him already wearing off, Jenner’s ratings nosedived on his second show. Viewers, who cut their teeth on the outrageous Jerry Springer Show, soon tired of a 65-year-old cross gender sporting “skin-tight” leather pants and other tacky Kardashian get-ups.
Caityn, at least, is pure entertainment and not out there trying to turn news into entertainment.
Donald Trump (love him or hate him, but bless him) is getting more publicity than either Caitlyn or Kelly because he is talking about the same issues as many with membership in John Q. Public are.
The insults Rosie O’Donnell and The Donald hurled at each other is only more important than America in decline to Megyn Kelly.
Worse, the ‘He-Said-She-Said Battle Royale’ ongoing between Kelly and Trump proves that the gloating Fox News is taking its new “We smashed all records” ego run beyond the debate.
Without ever intending it to happen, Trump is providing free publicity for other opportunistic news outlets, like Red State, which has oh-so-publicly “dis-invited” him from their weekend event.
We have to, to a degree, put up with overbearing governments and their over-the-top agencies like EPA, but we do not have to put up with the mainstream media, which has no authority over the common man.
We can force Fox News ‘entertainers’ to play to an empty theatre and get back to the crucial business of blocking the Democrats from restoring Hillary Clinton to power and perhaps even choosing the right president.
We can get back to seeing which GOP contenders best represent the issues that interest us most by catching them on other channels that put news before egos.
Let Fox News run away with its own ego. They’re now too big to fail.
Once news outlets become as arrogant and as self-absorbed as the politicians, it’s time to rethink how to best deal with them.
Meanwhile here are the simple Golden Rules necessary in dealing with an overpowering, ego-driven media: For We the People; switch channels! For 2016 presidential contenders: “Issues only or no comment!”
For The Donald: Do as the Kardashians do; come up with your own TV channel.
Meanwhile, Kelly and Company were looking for standing ovations. The only two they got were from Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Like the government the fawning media of the day tries so hard to emulate, mainstream media has now given itself authority over the masses--including aspiring Republican presidential hopefuls--to which it has no right.
Fox News, which came onto the media world as providers of “the fair and balanced” news, are now coming on just like Obama, having proved before 24 million viewers, it’s now going to be their way or the highway.
