Back in the 90s I was shocked after watching one of Clinton’s SOTU speeches — a speech I strongly approved of — to find the media reacted with utter disdain. Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and others slammed the speech as too long, too boring and just a “laundry list” of “small bore” proposals. It was clear that they took for granted that we unwashed masses would share their disdain. The next morningI was pleasantly surprised to watch them eat crow after overnight polls showed the public not only strongly approved of the speech, but viewership had kept increasing as the speech went on.
I naively thought that humiliation would make journalists change their puerile ways. The 2000 election coverage showed how quickly they had forgotten. If anything political coverage had become even more shallow. Bush was “more fun to have a beer with”; Gore foolishly wore earth tones. I was beyond disgusted when I read the WaPo’s revered David Broder’s reaction to Al Gore’s acceptance speech. Broder carped that Gore had talked so much about what he would do if elected it had almost put Broder to sleep.
Is the Biden campaign vestigial because it only exists in "battleground" states? Some, like Wisconsin, have genuine, fighting, Democratic parties. I understand that the media finds the economic betterment of the majority of us boring. Industrial America is so 20th century ... Looking forward to your book ...
Trump has made middle America into a mythical place, and the media descends upon it in droves during presidential campaigns to interview the "folk" who sit around in diners all day whining about the Democrats. I'm curious to read whether your book buys into the myth of the flyover states' voters putting Trump in office in 2016. I've read many times that the reason Trump got elected in 2016 is because big money donors poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his campaign coffers..
And along with growing proof that Russia did a bang-up job of helping to get Trump elected, you seem to still want to push the nonsense that angry rural voters were Trump's ticket to the Oval Office, and that his magical mystique has reached beyond the pathetic base that shows up for his rallies. It's big money, not guys in John Deere caps, who wield the power in the GOP and the Trump camp. And Trump heads up a cult of personality where his followers believe every lie the psychopath tells. Trump and his campaign know that all they need are a few more electoral votes than Biden gets, as Biden campaigns almost exclusively in swing states.
Back in the 90s I was shocked after watching one of Clinton’s SOTU speeches — a speech I strongly approved of — to find the media reacted with utter disdain. Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and others slammed the speech as too long, too boring and just a “laundry list” of “small bore” proposals. It was clear that they took for granted that we unwashed masses would share their disdain. The next morningI was pleasantly surprised to watch them eat crow after overnight polls showed the public not only strongly approved of the speech, but viewership had kept increasing as the speech went on.
I naively thought that humiliation would make journalists change their puerile ways. The 2000 election coverage showed how quickly they had forgotten. If anything political coverage had become even more shallow. Bush was “more fun to have a beer with”; Gore foolishly wore earth tones. I was beyond disgusted when I read the WaPo’s revered David Broder’s reaction to Al Gore’s acceptance speech. Broder carped that Gore had talked so much about what he would do if elected it had almost put Broder to sleep.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/10/gore200710
Is the Biden campaign vestigial because it only exists in "battleground" states? Some, like Wisconsin, have genuine, fighting, Democratic parties. I understand that the media finds the economic betterment of the majority of us boring. Industrial America is so 20th century ... Looking forward to your book ...
Black Folk Have White Rural Rage Too
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/today-i-learned-black-folk-have-white
Trump has made middle America into a mythical place, and the media descends upon it in droves during presidential campaigns to interview the "folk" who sit around in diners all day whining about the Democrats. I'm curious to read whether your book buys into the myth of the flyover states' voters putting Trump in office in 2016. I've read many times that the reason Trump got elected in 2016 is because big money donors poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his campaign coffers..
https://fortune.com/2016/08/03/trump-billionaire-backers-list/
And along with growing proof that Russia did a bang-up job of helping to get Trump elected, you seem to still want to push the nonsense that angry rural voters were Trump's ticket to the Oval Office, and that his magical mystique has reached beyond the pathetic base that shows up for his rallies. It's big money, not guys in John Deere caps, who wield the power in the GOP and the Trump camp. And Trump heads up a cult of personality where his followers believe every lie the psychopath tells. Trump and his campaign know that all they need are a few more electoral votes than Biden gets, as Biden campaigns almost exclusively in swing states.