This could've gone into the Trump's a Giant Piece of Shit thread or whatever, but I decided it encompassed another thing I wanted to talk about, mainly: the right aren't the only people who have a beef with you, media.
You may have heard that recently, Michelle Wolf of Daily Show fame was the comedian invited to speak at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. I've had beefs with this dinner before, like the time Obama was sitting there cracking jokes and the press laughed while District 3 (Baltimore) was literally on fire from riots not that far away. It's an exercise in orgasmic self-indulgence that I believe should be put out to pasture along with a whole other bunch of navel-gazing decorum I would ban if I ever became president.
Michelle Wolf said a lot of crude things, almost like she's a comedian or something, and the right predictably erupted with outrage like they're the purveyors of civility right now with their Trumps and Moores. Of particular note was some shade thrown at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who sat right next to her, where Wolfe said something to the effect of "she has such perfect smokey eyes, I think she gets it from the makeup. Or grinds up lies and uses them. Probably the lies" after calling her a character from the Handmaiden's Tale (I haven't watched it) that's apparently synonymous with an Uncle Tom.
What was rather surprising was the journalists and media types siding with Sanders on this, apparently forgetting that (a) Michelle Wolf is not a journalist and (b) She's also not wrong, really, and (c) Of the two of them, Sanders by far is the greater evil. Particularly defensive was Maggie Haberman, who acted like Sanders was Jesus Christ being unjustly crucified as she sat there and took what she righteously deserved.
But I wonder if some of this isn't because for all that the right is like "This is the leftist media at its worst!", Wolf had something to say about the media that I think a lot of people would agree with, calling them out for hating Trump but always being ready to profit off him, specifically calling him "The monster you built". I understand why Haberman and her ilk have to brown-nose, they lose their access if they piss off the WH, though it makes them no less cowardly, but it's surprising to see some of the people leaping to Sanders' defense on this.
But I'm interested in a discussion about this particular point of the media, things like the NYT stringing out their collection of files against Hillary Clinton for months on end for profit, the media's simultaneous loathing yet promotion of Trump, partisanship over reporting, etc. Less interested in the "Media lies because I trust nobody but the other ideologically aligned media" discussion, here, more interested in the fact that it seems like some people in the media that defensed Wolf might agree with my idea that the media's frankly been too civil and unwilling to engage in the face of Trump. Thoughts?