Perhaps fearing DT's uniquely vicious brand of retribution, the media is treating next month's U.S. transfer of power as if it centers on a qualified leader who will calmly steer the fundamental operations on which Americans depend.
However, this is not a routine, one dimensional, peaceful transfer speckled with a few minor glitches.
This is once-in-a-lifetime, complex, high wire transition that could lead directly to worldwide catastrophe.
It must be covered as such.
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2.7 million more Americans voted for Clinton, and tens of millions are living in deep, very reasonable, mortal fear of what's ahead-- fear for their families, fear for their savings, fear for (or of) their neighbors.
The nuclear codes are about to be handed to a malicious, child-like, semi-literate Twitter troll who unjustly "won" office by willfully ignoring reality and leading followers to dangerous, false conclusions.
If permitted to take office, he will work with his band of pathetic enablers to wreak havoc on millions of good people with dangerously regressive policies that will destroy decades of progress in civil rights and hard-won, productive, popular social programs.
With the Oval Office likely being handed to a man who is poised to recklessly destroy many principles set in stone by the Founders, the media must follow the lead of Edward R. Murrow:
Deliver the truth, without being intimidated by the fanatics, religious zealots and corporate interests who will use a DT presidency as license to torch the Constitution, abuse minorities and destroy families by imprisoning or killing an untold number of people-- some as "the enemy," many others as collateral damage.
Everything is at stake.
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What is "Murrow the Media?"
The media must immediately engage in full-scale, risk-taking journalism while refusing to parrot the DT disinformation machine. They must inform the public and the Electoral College of the imminent threat.
During the campaign, DT's backers demanded — some by yelling, some with threats, all with false "facts" furnished by DT, Russian-backed Wikileaks and neo-Nazi websites — that the media cover Clinton shortcomings with the same intensity as DT's repeatedly proven, spectacular, dangerous inadequacies.
The competent, qualified person "lost."
Report what Murrow would report at this defining moment, when a rising demagogue-- in this case, a hateful career scam artist-- must be kept from destroying the country, and/ or the world.
Every time media cover a smarmy clown show like the DT "victory tour" or the selection of another soulless billionaire to supposedly help the "little guy," they should also fulfill the media's patriotic responsibility to preserve the very structure of the Constitution.
They must immediately cover:
--the very legitimate (80,000 combined vote margin, or 3% of Clinton's winning popular vote margin) recounts in MI, WI and PA
--the lead-up to the Electoral College vote-- set up by the Founders as a buffer between the Oval Office and the chosen candidate of an ill-informed mob
--the unfounded and dangerous positions of many of DT's Cabinet nominees
--the hundreds of hate crimes being perpetrated in his name, many of them against children.
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DT, the Human Hate Crime, a lifelong devious fraud, has lost the popular vote, but "won" the White House.
He is a nightmare merger of ignorance and arrogance, with a short temper, a lack of knowledge, no interest in learning, and, soon, an itchy nuclear trigger finger.
Everything is at stake.
Murrow the Media, before it's too late.
