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| Presidential Payback For Media Hubris |
| 2017-03-02 |
| H/T Instapundit Donald Trump conducted a press conference recently as if he were a loud circus ringmaster whipping the media circus animals into shape. The establishment thought the performance was a window into an unhinged mind; half the country thought it was a long overdue media comeuppance. The media suffer the lowest approval numbers in nearly a half-century. In a recent Emerson College poll, 49 percent of American voters termed the Trump administration "truthful"; yet only 39 percent believed the same about the news media. Every president needs media audit. The role of journalists in a free society is to act as disinterested censors of government power--neither going on witch-hunts against political opponents nor deifying ideological fellow-travelers. Sadly, the contemporary mainstream media--the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN), the traditional blue-chip newspapers (Washington Post, New York Times), and the public affiliates (NPR, PBS)--have lost credibility. They are no more reliable critics of President Trump’s excesses than they were believable cheerleaders for Barack Obama’s policies. Trump may have a habit of exaggeration and gratuitous feuding that could cause problems with his presidency. But we would never quite know that from the media. In just his first month in office, reporters have already peddled dozens of fake news stories designed to discredit the President--to such a degree that little they now write or say can be taken at face value. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Lindsey Graham needs to be run out of the party at the tip of a rusty spear. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-03-02 19:52 |
| #1 And today we saw the Deep State counter battery, and once again we see repubs breaking and running for cover. Nothing has been learned. If Trump himself doesn't take the reigns and bring this crap to a hold and have his circle hold the line he is going to be toast. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2017-03-02 17:11 |