Thank you Ari Melber for acknowledging on MSNBC just now that Mitch McConnell is not some omnipotent figure who always wins, and that in reality he often blinks or loses battles. Palmer Report has been hammering home this fact all year.
McConnell often wins, and he often loses. He’s very savvy but he doesn’t have a magic wand. Yet for years the media (on the left and right) has falsely portrayed McConnell as always getting his way on everything, by simply not covering the numerous times he’s lost or caved.
Why would the media misrepresent this? The usual answer: ratings.
Right wingers like to be told they’re winning, so right wing media always insists McConnell is winning.
Liberals respond to being told they’re losing, so liberal media also always insists McConnell is winning.
Right wingers like to be told they’re winning, so right wing media always insists McConnell is winning.
Liberals respond to being told they’re losing, so liberal media also always insists McConnell is winning.
What’s striking is how often left and right wing media decide to hype the same exact false narratives, so right wing media can get ratings by celebrating it, and left wing media can get ratings by lamenting over it.
Right wing media obviously goes to much more severe degrees with many of its false narratives, often making up pure fiction for ratings.
But left wing media is often willing to report a true story and then falsely put a doomsday spin on it, for the sake of ratings.
But left wing media is often willing to report a true story and then falsely put a doomsday spin on it, for the sake of ratings.
What almost no one in the audience understands is that while these media outlets have their political preferences, they’re not trying to make their preferred side win. They’re trying to get ratings, by manipulating whichever side their audience happens to be on.
Liberal and moderate news outlets usually see their ratings go up when Republicans are in power.
Right wing news outlets usually see their ratings go up when Democrats are in power (though not this year).
Pundits might hate it when the other side wins, but they benefit from it.
Right wing news outlets usually see their ratings go up when Democrats are in power (though not this year).
Pundits might hate it when the other side wins, but they benefit from it.
The major media outlets will only start being more straight with you, if you start learning how they really think and operate, so you can filter what they’re feeding you, and then you’ll be empowered to push back whenever they’re feeding you BS for ratings.
Again, credit to Ari Melber today for accurately covering that McConnell keeps blinking. It’s important to give the major media outlets and pundits credit when they’re being straight with you, as opposed to just feeding you the most ratings-friendly narrative.
These hosts on MSNBC and CNN, their job as their bosses see it is to hit their ratings marks.
If these hosts want to be straight with you, they have to find a way to do that while hitting their ratings marks. Otherwise they get replaced with hosts who will hit the ratings marks.
If these hosts want to be straight with you, they have to find a way to do that while hitting their ratings marks. Otherwise they get replaced with hosts who will hit the ratings marks.
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