Editorial Collusion By Dozens Of Newspapers Proves Trump's Point: The Media Are Biased
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News Bias: The Boston Globe had the great idea to get 100 newspapers around the country to publish editorials Thursday to "push back" against President Trump for his critical remarks about the press. In doing so, they've only confirmed that he is dead right.
The idea is to counterbalance Trump's effective recent jabs at the press for their "fake news" and his clearly inflammatory remark that the news media are the "enemy of the people."
"We have some big newspapers, but the majority are from smaller markets, all enthusiastic about standing up to Trump's assault on journalism ," Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe's deputy editorial page editor, told CNN.
Though the number of participating newspapers was initially estimated at 100, it now appears it will be about 70. Still, that's a lot. And even the American Society of Newspaper Editors has disgraced itself by supporting it.
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That so many news outlets could be duped into participating in what is obviously a political stunt is not only disappointing but disturbing. It suggests their real agenda isn't informing people, even in their editorials, but bending the news to suit a leftist political agenda.
The irony, of course, is that in participating in this Antifa-inspired mob action, the media are proving what Trump says is true. They are biased.
What's called "fake news" comes in many forms , such as reporting something that isn't true or that lacks proof.
In recent days, for instance, coverage of Omarosa Manigault-Newman's scathing book on working for Trump, "Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House," has been all over the media. She claims a tape exists of Trump using an ugly racial epithet on the reality show "The Apprentice." Many media accounts cite it.
Fair enough. Where is it? Can we hear it or see it? Apparently not. Does it exist? If it does, no one's brought it forward.
Yet, Newman does have surreptitiously recorded tape of White House aide John Kelly quite justifiably firing her, and another recorded bit of a private conversation she had with a sympathetic President Trump in which he said he was "sad" to see her go. That beast!
Trump "unhinged?" Fake news.
Meanwhile, a sinister and frightening extremist Islamist religious movement in New Mexico allegedly instructs children how to engage in mass terrorist shootings, and the national media virtually ignore it. And its leader is the son and namesake of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the imam of Brooklyn, N.Y.'s At-Taqwa Mosque, who has extensive ties to the Democratic Party.
The media's response? Crickets.
As we noted recently, the bias has even permeated the media's coverage of the economy. The media are seriously misinforming the public about what's happening in the economy — and why.
"The stronger the economy gets under Trump, the more desperate his critics are to hand credit over to Obama ," we wrote last week in an editorial about the media's economic blind spots when it comes to Trumponomics. "A recent New York Times story says it all: 'An economic upturn begun under Obama is now Trump's to tout.' "
Getting The Economy Wrong, Too
We can't blame only the Times. Many in the media now ascribe recent major gains in economic activity that are clearly related to Trump policy changes to President Obama. It's as perverse as it is wrong. And it is a matter of statistical fact that Obama, whatever else you think of him, had the worst economic record of any president since the Great Depression.
He inherited an economy ripe for a major rebound after the financial crisis and instead delivered eight years of mediocre gains.
These are but two of the recently misreported or underreported stories propagated by the so-called mainstream media. Our major media are in fact filled with left-leaning reporters and editors who refuse to acknowledge their obvious bias — or when they do acknowledge it, deny it has any bearing on their reporting. When challenged, they wrap themselves in the First Amendment and pretend to be martyrs.
Trump knows this. He's basically trolled the media to get them to explicitly show their anti-Trump bias. It worked like a charm . Kudos to the Boston Globe and the others for falling for it.
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He calls them the enemy of the people all the time, I have no problem with the media collectively telling him to fuck himself. What I find most hilarious is that those who agree with fuck head are in effect saying they disagree with the First Amendment. They are effectively saying they do not want a choice in what they hear, read, or say. Quite hilarious if you ask me, how stupid people are.
Unamerican scum really hate the 1st amendment.
Yes, they do-especally when the President says something they run to press saying he shuoldn't be allowed to say stuff like that.
The mainstream media simply plays the videos of Trump's insane rants. Fake news, like BS, rolls downhill.
Trump's tweets alone show him as a ignorant purveyor of fake news, lies, innuendo, hate and propaganda.
How anybody can still worship the liar in chief who claims Obama's accomplishments as his own is insane.
sorry, i have to disagree - especially since Trump stated he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose supporters . It seems like he was right - he is worshipped by his supporters , and the religious conservative minded supporters will blindly follow him since they constantly feel like they are " persecuted victims " in society .
i'm not sure which is funnier - the fact you typed this nonsense or the fact that you believe it. Let me know when Obama states he can shoot American Citizens in NY while not losing any supporters. Let me know when Obama can tell everyone that the media, freedom of press, is now the "enemy of the people" and not upset any of his supporters who are supposedly "patriotic" - in fact they cheer for it because the media isn't as enamored with Trump as his supporters are.
*yawn* how about giving your own opinion in your own words about your love and being enamored with President Trump ?
again:
so i await your response in your own words and not the opinion of someone else (which btw was quite amusing and had many errors in it - we are all well aware that racism was around before Trump, nobody denies that)
Unamerican scum really hate the 1st amendment.
No kidding.
The great leftwing hope is actually banning the press from covering her town hall meeting.
That's a whole lot different than some of those by invitation only teapublican town halls, isn't it?
There's a reason why the 2nd amendment was written to follow the 1st.
For the weak minded amongst us: Collusion among newspapers is not illegal, immoral, or wrong.....It is done all the time to insure that the newspapers get the real news right. In some cases it is a collusion between a few papers, sometimes between many papers, sometimes a paper will even "string" another paper's story. There are time that newspapers use the AP or UPI conglomerates to insure that all the papers are getting the same information.
Second, this is supposed to be a discussion of editorial page opinion. You can take their opinions and agree or disagree with them. The fact that Trump is waging a concerted war against the media and is prodding his supporters to take action against them certainly opens himself up to targeting by those papers.
Third, there is one hell of a gap between cooperation between newspapers sharing information and making a case to their readers and a potential , future, and current president of the United States working with a foreign enemy to effect our elections and then cover that relationship up.
No amount of false equivalence will make the allegations here any more egregious.
A little girl was leaning into a lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, all under the eyes of her screaming parents.
A biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.
A reporter has watched the whole event.
The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, "Sir, this was the most gallant and bravest thing I've seen a man do in my whole life."
The Harley rider replies, "Why, it was nothing, really. The lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right."
The reporter says, "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page. So, what do you do for a living, and what political affiliation do you have?"
The biker replies "I'm a U.S. Marine, a Republican and I voted for Trump".
The journalist leaves.
The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:
** U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT & ROBS HIS LUNCH **
And THAT pretty much sums up the media's approach to the news these days.
This is a high level effort by Trump, GOP, conservatives, Russians, Putin and others to project their spreading of lies and misinformation to the free press in order to keep their grasp on power as long as possible. I realize a minority of Americans (mostly base gop) don't care about truth, they've shown that for years now, but its on steroids now. Trump lies. All the time. About everything. He pushes Putin's Russian propaganda, as do the gop. If one cared to look it up, Trump is doing exactly what autocrats and dictators do first, make the press the enemy so they alone can control the narrative. This isn't the normal political sparring and governing and I'm sick of people trying to pretend it is. The 'fake news' is what Fox/conservatives have been doing for years, shaping a false narrative so sheeple believe it. When people got savvy to the bs, they are now projecting what they've been doing on to the free press to get the narrative back.
I think Molly Hemingway said it best:
"The way to hold Trump accountable is to report fairly and accurately on him and his administration. Not emote irrationally in a non-stop tantrum. Report. It's the one thing many in the media find impossible to do. And this failure empowers him, obviously."
Fairl and accurate reporting would be what is happening by most of the media (I don't read the fringe stuff, so don't even know about it, but any misinformation and lies should be called out the same). People are getting loudernow because the gop has abdicated its job as a check and balance, that job they ran on. Not protecting, enabling and outright lying for him. Nothing about Trump and his reign are normal because he isn't normal. He lies and bullies every day! Nothing about what is happening is normal. And over the entire clusterfuck stands Putin, adding his trolls to the gopropaganda. No way this American is watching another round of 'believe republican bullshit over your lying eyes' without a fight.
You sound just like the media. That's the point
Not who. What. I'm fighting bullshit, propaganda, lies, misinformation and hypocrisy.
I'd say that quite the challenge you're undertaking. Good luck. You're not alone but at this point we're fighting uphill. I've dug in and taking one point at a time. the war continues and I will survive. At my age I also refuse to give up either my sanity nor my happiness over this long battle.In time this too shall pass! Good Luck America !
IMO: What has made America Great has been our government and our people. What makes our American government so great is the system was set up to be governed by the people cooperating and compromising to find solutions to our problems. IMO: Until we as a nation get back to that point I honestly believe we really will never really be a great nation again.
IMO: Great nations don’t destroy themselves from within like America seems to be doing, Our own politicians and media have divided us up for their own power and profit and we the people have turned over our nation to whomever has or can raise enough money to get elected instead of people who actually want to cooperate together and compromise when necessary to solve this nations problems, All I can say is Good luck to America because unfortunately, I dont see this changing.
Meanwhile the people who buy the politicians and the politicians reap the rewards sit back in their ivory towers drinking Champaign eating caviar and laughing at their pawns as they watch us fight watch nascar and foooootball.
WTF about that makes America so damn Great ?
IMO: Not much these days !
As you can see now I believe I have yet something else to be critical of as you know I do not like nor agree with how this president accomplishes his objectives or governs this nation.
Yes, we can certainly agree there !
I can understand your dislike of hildabeast, I certainly have/had no love for her as well.
As I've said I Did Not want nor plan on voting for her, I kept hoping anyone but clinton would materialize that I thought was a better more stable person for the job. It didn't happen.
Instead as we all know trump was the contender, after carefully looking at both of their mannerisms, personalities, experiences and my evaluation of both candidates mental status, I decide for myself that I believed trump was actually more mentally imbalanced than the beast. So she got my one vote after all, this time. However, I never want a repeat of that BS level of an election choice ! Ever !
I agree with the objective, I dont agree with the choice of the person contracted to do the work.
Yes reform was not the platform she ran or what she was too concerned with, she just wanted to be president and the first female president to boot !
period.