Steve Rendall of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting responds to Bob Woodward’s preposterous statement on CNN to the effect that the U.S. public would object to any replacement for Scalia who was not as radically, as outlandishly regressive as he.
“Presenting the views of the power elite as those of the public, no matter how detached those views are from actual public sentiment and opinion, is what the national media are about. This largely explains why dullards and fantasists like Woodward thrive in it.”
We see this culturally as well, as the “mainstream” media decides what culture the public will be allowed to experience, to respond to, by providing an ever-more constricted purview on culture.
What we are really now seeing from that media is a daily attempt to legitimize fringe ideas and positions.