In the sultry days of summer 2020 as Donald Trump contemplated a second term, his aides engaged in a quiet conversation with members of the emerging digital media about an audacious idea.
The goal was to bypass the traditional news media who monopolized the White House Correspondents Association press room at the White House and set the “conventional wisdom” such as the false Russia collusion narrative.
In its place, the aides wanted to stand up a new press room in the Old Executive Office Building where new media free from the group think of the legacy press could get briefings, access to the president and flourish.
If there was a sticking point that summer of discontent, it was how the public might react to such a notion.
Four years, four indictments, two assassination attempts, a Jan. 6 based impeachment and a heavy dose of bogus and biased coverage later, the American voting public seems to be clamoring for such a change.
Especially with a steady flow of revelations of stories having been suppressed, like concerns about Joe Biden’s mental acuity early in the election or the Hunter Biden laptop.
“There was a time when, in my lifetime, your lifetime, when reporters were proud to break stories and be the first one to inform their listeners,” Rep. Glen Grothman, R-Wis., told Just the News on Monday. “This is not what’s going on. Now, the goal of the reporter seems to be to hide stories. And you know, our country cannot go on with that.”
The congressman, whose state has been an intensely fought battleground this election, said he’s sensed from the campaign trail that everyday Americans feel the way he does.
“In the last week, I’ve been at two Donald Trump rallies. The line that gets the most applause is when Donald Trump calls out the fake news, which is to say the mainstream media,’ Grothman noted. “If that wasn’t true when I was a child, the mainstream media ought to care what people think about it, Maybe they don’t care.
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