The unbearable smugness of the press
I don&#x27;t understand how thick headed the mainstream media (MSM) seems to be in not getting it. This &quot;upset&quot; win of Trump (upset in the sense that it didn&#x27;t play by the MSM&#x27;s wishes) was not an isolated incident - it&#x27;s happened in India (2014), it happened in UK (Brexit), and it has been repeated in the US.<p>The fundamental driver for all three instances has been the removal of all filters on social media. The problem was that for too long the MSM used their power to filter content to its readers&#x2F;viewers, and the filter was tuned by a group that wanted to script reality in a form that they wished to see come to fruition, even if their stand was hypocritical.<p>So for example, you&#x27;d see a huge hue and cry in the MSM about how freedom of expression was being harmed because a right wing outfit threatened someone for speaking out against a majority religion, and yet, when someone spoke out against Islam, and Islamic groups placed a bounty on his head, the same MSM would just go silent. It is this blatant hypocrisy that finally got them.<p>And now, with social media, for the first time people have access to unfiltered news and can form their own opinions. And for better or worse, the hypocrisy of the MSM is glaringly obvious for people who have access to multiple viewpoints on an incident - not just a filtered viewpoint. With the hypocrisy bare, it&#x27;s basically been a revolt against the established media.<p>And unless the established media takes it upon themselves to be more honest in whatever stand they take, this is going to repeat, because, people aren&#x27;t fools you know.