If you Google “Trump Fox” these days, you get a raft of entries — all suggesting (nothing new here) that Donald Trump is a “mole,” that his candidacy is an effort to bring the Republican party down.
That’s believable, if not necessarily what’s going on. A more interesting edge to the story was reiterated this morning on NPR. Is this also about Roger Ailes, Ailes’ effort to become a powerful — no, the powerful — media mogul of this era? And Trump’s efforts and $$$ are dedicated to destroying Fox News and restoring the Republican party as at least a less radical role as political spoiler?
All of this could just be campaign yada-yada if it weren’t for Trump’s poll numbers. The guy has some heft, maybe more heft than Ailes. Republican voters may have realized, finally, that Fox isn’t out to inform them but to own them.
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Gee! Maybe I’m a little late to this party! The Hill has this yesterday:
The political coverage of the 2016 campaign has reached epic levels of sloppiness and shallowness, at a moment when public opinion toward major media has reached catastrophically low levels of trust, according to surveys from Gallup.
According to the latest survey of institutional trust from Gallup, in June television news ranked near the bottom of public confidence in all American institutions, approaching the low levels of trust of the almost universally distrusted Congress. Newspapers barely ranked higher. …Budowsky,TheHill
Whew! This household hasn’t had TV news of any kind since the Supreme Court decision on Bush v Gore. We are so avant garde, so perspicacious!