Posted on 12/12/2017 12:03:17 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
It’s a wonder that President Trump devotes so much time to discrediting the press, when the press does so much to discredit itself.
The media’s errors over the last week haven’t been marginal or coincidental, but involved blockbuster reports on one of the most dominating stories of the last year — Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. And they all slanted one way — namely, toward lurid conclusions about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russians.
Every media outlet makes mistakes. It’s easier than ever to run with fragmentary or dubious information in a frenzied news cycle that never stops.
But underlying the media blunders was an assumption — not based on any evidence we’ve yet seen — of Trump guilt in the Russia matter. This was news, in other words, too anti-Trump to check.
On the day it broke that Michael Flynn had pled guilty to lying to the FBI, Brian Ross of ABC News had a seemingly epic scoop. He reported that Flynn would testify that Trump directed him to make contact with Russian officials prior to the election. This was the collusion-equivalent of a four-alarm fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
(It must be galling for journalists that every mistake they make is amplified into a national scandal by the president, while Trump is willfully careless about facts himself.)
Yep, it must be galling to you, Rich Lowery, you anti-Trumper par excellence! Even you can’t miss what such anti-Trump bias done to your profession. The deep state and the media are working overtime to overturn the will of the people, and you worry about Trump? I’m just unhappy that I clicked on the article before I knew it was written by Rich Lowery!
If these ‘errors’ were honest mistakes by the normal laws of chance half of them would be in Trumps favor.
Media strumpets one and all...
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