The Media's Colossal Fail

The media is underwhelmed at the charges brought against Donald Trump by New York’s District Attorney. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records certainly doesn’t feel nearly as dramatic as the media had hoped and hyped prior to the indictments. How disappointing, says nearly every major news media outlet out there. I’d agree. Disappointed by the media itself and its colossal fail on this entire story.

First the media blows it way out of proportion - with almost no facts - then after the indictments come out doesn’t bother waiting for all of the facts, or the trial, before describing the case as shaky, and poorly founded.

Only our modern day media would find a case ‘underwhelming’ where a US president paid hush money to a playboy bunny and a porn star to keep them quiet about having extramarital affairs, then falsifies business records in order to hide the affairs, makes payoffs so as to in effect lie to his constituents in order to protect his chances at winning the election, and then reimburses his attorney for the payoffs - who went to prison for doing what Trump had asked him to do - reimburses Cohen for the hush money payments that had been made at Trump’s request, with checks Trump himself wrote, as the president, at his desk, in the oval office!

The only thing I find underwhelming in all of this is the media’s lack of basic journalistic standard, and imagination.

Or put another way - the only problem I see thus far in all of this is the media’s colossal fail.