The manipulation of the media
Last week, the political media was aghast that Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump called them “especially dishonest.” The flap centered on how the reporting about Trump’s donations to veterans groups fell short of what he said it would. He had given $5.6 million to date when he had told the media he was going to give $6 million, and that money was still coming in. The media was calling Trump a liar over his contributions. Trump was setting the record straight. Now that you see Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appearing in pictures with her arms spread like some third world country socialist goddess, you are once again seeing the “especially dishonest” political media.
The Media Research Council, a media watchdog group, completed a study of who covered the primaries, lending insight as to why Hillary Clinton is being touted as a goddess in waiting of her earthly coronation. MRC reports: “The news media are celebrating Hillary Clinton’s success this week at becoming the first woman to ever clinch a major party’s presidential nomination. “This morning, Hillary Clinton is making history,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell chirped on Today. Over on ABC’s Good Morning America, correspondent Cecilia Vega saluted Clinton for “shattering the more than 200-year-old glass ceiling of American politics.” This only solidifies those who would vote for Clinton because the US needs a woman president.
A January to June MRC study of 950 stories about Trump and Clinton, however, indicates that broadcast networks organized their coverage to ensure that Clinton’s historic candidacy was almost entirely reported by women correspondents, while the GOP race was largely reported by male correspondents. MRC reports that 83% of the Democratic stories were reported by women. The opposite is true of the Republican stories, with 32% reported by women. MRC states: “While each network relied on a sizeable number of correspondents to cover the race, all three assigned a woman as the main reporter covering the Democratic primaries: ABC’s Cecilia Vega, CBS’s Nancy Cordes, and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.”
Add on top of this the personal politics of these reporters, which is heavily weighted as not only liberal, but socialist. Studies conducted in 1981 (The Media Elite by Lichter and Rothman) and in 1995 (Kenneth Walsh, US News and World Report) indicate that reporters vote for the Democratic presidential candidate 85% of the time, and White House correspondents vote for the Democratic presidential candidate 88% of the time. This is also an indicator of the bias in their reporting. The media’s goddess Hillary Clinton will get all the breaks unless she is indicted, and even then it will make her a victim. If you believe what these people report, you are being manipulated. As Isaiah 59:4 says, “None call for justice, nor any plead for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.” Don’t be fooled by them.
