https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhiEIfKJGJQ

Just go outside, John Key already has his unofficial fan club, those that vote for him.

I totally agree, watching, listening and reading CRITICALLY, that is what I also recommend. There are some programs on RT that have more credit and authenticity than others, and yes, all media has some kind of bias, often dependent on the soil they are based on.

Reading between the lines is a skill, that I recommend people learn and use more often. Many of us do, but there are some who seem to think anything that RT broadcasts is just the truth, and all else is biased. Sadly it does not work like that.

There is no black and white in the media, some are less shady than others though, and Fox is at the shadier side in my view.

I meant the 4th estate but a 4th state is not such a bad idea either 🙂

Sure, and the BBC, CNN, Fox, and every other TV news network have their biases too. That doesn’t mean they broadcast nothing of value. It just means you need to watch them critically, especially when the topic is of great interest to their owners. I am aware of no evidence that Wikileaks has any links with Putin or the oligarchy that runs Russia, and they have leaked stuff highly damaging to them in the past. The idea that we should ignore Wikileaks exposure of the Clintons’ corruption just because it was covered enthusiastically on RT is as absurd as supporting the TPPA because there is criticism of it on RT.
https://www.rt.com/usa/317706-what-is-tpp-trade/

The reason it backfired is that even with all the deficiencies of Trump as a candidate, many people saw him as the only option for defeating Hillary Clinton. Many or most of the people who voted for him would have voted for Bernie Sanders, who was not as unheard of as the article says but was actually the person ordinary Democrats voted to be the candidate in the primaries. They were ‘outvoted’ by special delegates chosen by the Democratic Party bigwigs.

To cut a long story short, people voted for Trump because they felt they had no other option. And they were right. If anything, the defeat of Clinton was the end of Clintonmania and it was the right thing to do. Whether now Trump will do the right thing is anyone’s guess – I’m hoping he will. This is not the demise of literacy, but it does mark the end of one terrible time in American history.

Did you really want to see more of the same and worse?

So clearly that back fired!

Yes Mike. As you say, the media did it, not because they loved him, but because they have become slaves to the ratings, forgetting their moral obligation to be the 4th state

Michal, you are right. The thought of Clinton as the US first ever woman president filled me with just as much horror as the thought of Trump’s presidency. How could a woman with so much blood on her hands ever be of any inspiration to any woman or help the feminism cause in any way?