Hillary a victim of lazy media's lazy memes
12 Nov '16 16:29Hillary wasn't defeated by an angry middle-America tired of being ignored by Washington. She wasn't beaten by an opponent who skillfully "exposed her for 'what she is' ".
She was slowly and carefully roasted on a rotisserie created by the lazy corporate media "in-group", not through traditional non-biased media reporting, but through a long series of "memes" and a base of untrue "common knowledge" built up over her long public-service tenure.
Americans have long trusted our media to report truth, in an unbiased way. The fourth estate is supposed to be above the partisan rhetoric polluting our political landscape. It was that exact way for generations in this country, but the media has gotten lazy and dependent on what others write, so as not to appear to be "outside the mainstream".
Neil H. Buchanan is an economist and legal scholar, a professor of law at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches tax law, tax policy, contracts, and law and economics. His research addresses the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on budget deficits, the national debt, health care costs and Social Security.
Read his Opinion piece in Newsweek magazine at this link:
http://www.newsweek.com/neil-buchanan-cruel-crooked-caricature-doomed-clinton-520125
And for the relentlessly ignorant blowhards (the tl;dr crowd) who can't be bothered to read anything longer than a bumper sticker, here are the last three paragraphs of the piece:
"To return to my image of the bully and his victim in high school, it was bad enough that Clinton had to deal with Trump's provocations. He was the one tying her shoelaces together and pushing her, but the supposedly liberal press was throwing things at her and telling her to catch them or dodge them as she tried not to fall down the stairs.
She still managed to come out of it all with her dignity intact, never falling even as the last banana peels were thrown in her path.
Yet now some people want to blame her for being flawed. She lost a winnable election, they say, but she did so because she could not overcome voter suppression or a relentlessly harsh media narrative. She—and the country—deserved better. Now, we will all pay the price."
She was slowly and carefully roasted on a rotisserie created by the lazy corporate media "in-group", not through traditional non-biased media reporting, but through a long series of "memes" and a base of untrue "common knowledge" built up over her long public-service tenure.
Americans have long trusted our media to report truth, in an unbiased way. The fourth estate is supposed to be above the partisan rhetoric polluting our political landscape. It was that exact way for generations in this country, but the media has gotten lazy and dependent on what others write, so as not to appear to be "outside the mainstream".
Neil H. Buchanan is an economist and legal scholar, a professor of law at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches tax law, tax policy, contracts, and law and economics. His research addresses the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on budget deficits, the national debt, health care costs and Social Security.
Read his Opinion piece in Newsweek magazine at this link:
http://www.newsweek.com/neil-buchanan-cruel-crooked-caricature-doomed-clinton-520125
And for the relentlessly ignorant blowhards (the tl;dr crowd) who can't be bothered to read anything longer than a bumper sticker, here are the last three paragraphs of the piece:
"To return to my image of the bully and his victim in high school, it was bad enough that Clinton had to deal with Trump's provocations. He was the one tying her shoelaces together and pushing her, but the supposedly liberal press was throwing things at her and telling her to catch them or dodge them as she tried not to fall down the stairs.
She still managed to come out of it all with her dignity intact, never falling even as the last banana peels were thrown in her path.
Yet now some people want to blame her for being flawed. She lost a winnable election, they say, but she did so because she could not overcome voter suppression or a relentlessly harsh media narrative. She—and the country—deserved better. Now, we will all pay the price."
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