That's quite a trick.
But now, on the national evening news, something has changed. The quality of the elite anchors has plummeted. These mind-control pros are less and less capable of delivering: the voice of authority.
In the old days, you had Water Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, Chet Huntley, Tom Brokaw, and (before he crashed and burned) Dan Rather. Big-time fakers.
Eventually, this devolved into a B-team of bench players: Dianne Sawyer, Brian Williams, Scott Pelley. Less believable -- but still fairly effective.
However, now, at the three major networks, it's androids on parade. Two pretty boys, David Muir and Jeff Glor, and the NBC cadaver, Lester Holt.
The ship is sinking.
Instead of trying to label their competition Fake News, the networks should look to themselves and try to figure out why they can't find father figures to deliver their no-context broadcasts.
The audience is wising up. The correct notes on the scale of mind control aren't being struck.
The system is falling apart.
When I named this site No More Fake News 16 years ago, I could see a fatigue factor setting in -- not only in the mainstream news audience, but in the networks themselves. They were playing out the string, hoping to coast on their prior reputations. They weren't just putting their viewers to sleep (their covert goal), they were slowly falling asleep themselves.
In the following years, the situation grew worse. The networks were moving on auto-pilot.
And now, they're reaching the end of the line. They're focusing on the only story that can deliver them ratings: Trump.
They fear him, they hate him -- and they love him, because he gives them the numbers that justify their advertising rates with sponsors.
It's always problematical when the only thing maintaining your survival is your enemy. Especially an enemy whose whole method of attack is to accuse you of subverting your basic mission, which is telling the truth.
And it's far worse when he's right.
No matter what you think of Trump, he's delivering hammer blows to the foundation of network news.
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