>>>All the MSM banging away at Trump just confirms their belief that the system is rigged.
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>Current events elevate this from a belief to a slam-dunk IMHO.
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>KG will confirm I spent time here rebutting accusations leveled at Obama regarding ACA and other instances where I thought he was unfairly smeared.
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>Trump gets as much in a day as I recall seeing about Obama in a month.
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>Would-be serious media organizations present every accusation from "sources" as if proven, extrapolating from that to ever-more extreme malfeasance, pointing to each other as credible citations. There's a huge house of cards built around Russia that ought to collapse unless somebody can find actual real-life evidence of crime apart from regurgitating and catastrophizing various unsubstantiated accusations. But even if multiple investigations peter out without finding cause, true believers will insist Trump is a Putin puppet/got elected by Putin just as some still insist that Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim married to a man.
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>But these things become possible only because US media has case law allowing "publish as you please" about a public figure. So smug is the MSM in this protection that the WAPO taunted Trump prior to his victory that there's nothing he can do about their biased/wrong coverage. "Bring it on!" they crowed at him. This is different from most of the free world where unsubstantiated defamatory publication/refusal to retract with equal fanfare, risks big damages.
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>Since his return I see Trump has ripped into the MSM on Twitter, suggesting that many extravagant stories attributed to "sources" are made up by fake news reporters. They'll howl that this is an attack on the free press, but it only stings because it's credible. Next I supposed he'll label them anti-American based on the damage they caused to the UK-US intelligence relationship by self-serving publication of criminal leaks. The lesson is that the MSM may get a free pass leaking and damaging their own POTUS, but there are consequences if you do it outside the US bubble of press invincibility. Perhaps they (and we) ought to stop and think about that for a few moments.

Yes, they've lost their bearings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/27/us/politics/trump-returns-to-crisis-over-kushner-as-white-house-tries-to-contain-it.html?
This story - the nyt's second lead yesterday- would flunk any serious journalism course.
The word "crisis" - along with a few others - should be banned for a while.
That said, go back and look at what written by the right about the "death panels."
Look at the utter nonsense that was written about, and the millions that were spent trying to find a crime in HRC's email server. You'd think that she was Benedict Arnold incarnate because of her choice of url.

The problem is that all that nonsense has an effect.
There are millions of people walking around - I know some personally - thinking that that email server was part of some kind of evil plot.
I don't think it changed their votes - they'd have voted against her anyway, but it might motivated a laggard to get out of bed and vote against her.

Ditto with this relentless pillorying of Trump.