Mainstream media has been under its fair share of scrutiny since Donald Trump took office. However for the very most part, the criticism hurled by the POTUS completely misses the mark as justifiable critiques when you consider his problems with the media are a result of his own doing. In short there’s nothing wrong with reporting the news which in a lot of cases is what stupid shit the President said on Twitter that given day.
What’s generally missed however is what happened this past week with the New York Times.
Thursday that publication ran a story entitled Hope Hicks Left the White House. Now She Must Decide Whether to Talk to Congress with what could be nothing more than a glam shot to further catch the reader’s eye. Hope Hicks is of course the former White House Communications Director and close Trump family confidant who left the administration in March of 2018 amid the turmoil that continues to grip the Executive Branch.
But when it comes to the NYT piece, what’s the problem with the picture? Literally and figuratively?
Well it’s the same problem we run into when we’re dealing with the elite in this Country. They, in this case Hope Hicks play by a different set of rules, a picture that the corporate backed mainstream media has no problem pushing.
Not buying it yet?
Well lets do a little side-by-side comparison between the Hope Hicks glam shot with a dramatic headline made for some tell-all nonfiction cheese and that of Chelsea Manning who was jailed for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks.
Both of which are from the NYT.
Interesting…
Where’s Chelsea Manning’s theatrical headline? Where’s her dramatic headshot as she ponders whether to sell herself out or lay down as the United States tramples on her individual rights to remain silent?
So are we going to see Hope Hicks hauled away to jail and placed in solitary confinement until she’s forced to speak in front of Congress and make a some public apology?
Ha! I fucking doubt it.
Why?
Because once again Hicks is on a completely different level than that of Manning or any other regular person in this Country. A level that former White House counsel Don McGahn and Attorney General William Barr currently reside on which is immune to any sort of judicial persecution beyond some kind nonsensical public scorning. And it’s an asinine concept that the New York Times and pretty much any other mainstream media outlet has zero problem promoting.
And that in and of itself is the biggest problem with the MSM. It’s not (for the most part) continuing to question the President. It’s this modern day, western caste system that they continue to promote in their reporting.