Crying wolf

"The irony is this. The better the news gets, the more the media hates our President. And the people who believe the plethora of fake news the media spews out, also hate our President." 

Many of us remember the Aesop Fable, The boy who cried wolf. Good story containing a good lesson. Which lesson? The penalty of not being a truth teller. Some people are natural "BS-er's". We have all known one or two in our life time. People who will tell a white lie, exaggerate, embellish, and so forth. Even the Bird has been accused once or twice with putting some spin on a good story. But there are people, and institutions, who we expect (or did at one time) to give us the unvarnished truth. Like the media. Like our government.

This morning headlines in the "fish wrap" this town calls a paper, is a good example of this. It was all about Trump trying to fire Mueller a few months ago. The story should have been about President Trump in Davos. About meeting with different CEO's who now want to invest in America. Or about Starbucks, this bastion of liberalism, who also wants to share its tax savings with its employees. Or more about Apple, how wants to invest $350B in our country. Nope - it was a story about firing Mueller. Which by the way - never happened. 

Did Trump consider firing Mueller? Maybe. But he didn't. And so what? Mueller, along with his crony Clinton loving staff, probably deserved to be replaced. But what is the truth right now? Is it is the paper? On cable news? We don't know, because the media has become the modern day version of the "boy who cried wolf". Because of the proliferation of "fake news", we don't know which is real and which is a lie. So many of us assume it is all lies.

The once great "fourth estate", a free press, has abused their power. They have become tabloid journalism. The once bright red line which separated the front page from the editorial page is now all but gone. We are bombarded with opinions, spin, assumptions and yes - lies. Whereas I used to enjoy leisurely paging through the paper in the morning, now I just give it a quick run through.

While the media continues to pedal fake news, Donald Trump is changing this country. Each day, every day, his Administration is righting the wrongs from the past Administration. In fact, the Trump Administration is righting the wrongs which go back many Administrations. 

The irony is this. The better the news gets, the more the media hates our President. And the people who believe the plethora of fake news the media spews out, also hate our President. And wither the media years down the road? Many of us believe down the drain. Right now? They are starting to circle the drain.