August 12, 2018
Trump’s media opponents are leaping into his trap
By Thomas Lifson
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/trumps_media_opponents_are_leaping_into_his_trap.html
This week, leading wordsmiths at two of the nation’s major newspapers openly propounded the need for the media to work together (also known as “conspire”) to defeat Donald Trump. The age of metropolitan dailies pretending to be unbiased sources of news officially is over.
At the New York Times, Thomas Friedman called on the media to defeat Trump in 2020 by targeting specific demographic slices of the electorate. He thereby moves from columnist to campaign consultant.
He calls on his colleagues to focus on random people whom show up at Trump rallies wearing shorts or signs that Friedman doesn’t like:
Two supporters out of thousands. Would Friedman suggest collectively publicizing the anti-police, anti-capitalist, anti-white, and other slogans on shorts and placards at rallies for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or and other Democrat? The question is rhetorical, because there is a de facto agreement in the mainstream media to hide radical elements of the left.
Friedman wants to play the role of television producer and event manager for the entire media when it covers Trump allies.
I guess Friedman is shooting for the post of Minister of Propaganda in the next Democrat administration.
Meanwhile, the deputy managing editor of the Boston Globe – a newspaper purchased by the New York Times for 1.1 billion dollars and later sold for seventy million – has reached out to editorial boards nationwide to coordinate anti-Trump editorials on August 16.
These people are living in the past, when their newspapers spoke with authority and were respected as impartial. If they think that by openly conspiring to damage the POTUS they will help their cause, they are sadly mistaken. They are offering proof that they are partisans, that they conspire, and that they wear blinders of fury when it comes to examining President Trump.
The public trust of media is at historic lows, as Gallup most recently found:
I suppose that these newspaper editors will congratulate themselves on their brave moral stand when they publish their editorials in unison. But they will also furnish a huge talking point for Trump about their open and proud bias against him.
Trump’s media opponents are leaping into his trap
By Thomas Lifson
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/trumps_media_opponents_are_leaping_into_his_trap.html
This week, leading wordsmiths at two of the nation’s major newspapers openly propounded the need for the media to work together (also known as “conspire”) to defeat Donald Trump. The age of metropolitan dailies pretending to be unbiased sources of news officially is over.
At the New York Times, Thomas Friedman called on the media to defeat Trump in 2020 by targeting specific demographic slices of the electorate. He thereby moves from columnist to campaign consultant.
He calls on his colleagues to focus on random people whom show up at Trump rallies wearing shorts or signs that Friedman doesn’t like:
Two supporters out of thousands. Would Friedman suggest collectively publicizing the anti-police, anti-capitalist, anti-white, and other slogans on shorts and placards at rallies for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or and other Democrat? The question is rhetorical, because there is a de facto agreement in the mainstream media to hide radical elements of the left.
Friedman wants to play the role of television producer and event manager for the entire media when it covers Trump allies.
I guess Friedman is shooting for the post of Minister of Propaganda in the next Democrat administration.
Meanwhile, the deputy managing editor of the Boston Globe – a newspaper purchased by the New York Times for 1.1 billion dollars and later sold for seventy million – has reached out to editorial boards nationwide to coordinate anti-Trump editorials on August 16.
These people are living in the past, when their newspapers spoke with authority and were respected as impartial. If they think that by openly conspiring to damage the POTUS they will help their cause, they are sadly mistaken. They are offering proof that they are partisans, that they conspire, and that they wear blinders of fury when it comes to examining President Trump.
The public trust of media is at historic lows, as Gallup most recently found:
I suppose that these newspaper editors will congratulate themselves on their brave moral stand when they publish their editorials in unison. But they will also furnish a huge talking point for Trump about their open and proud bias against him.
