Posted on 08/15/2018 8:46:38 AM PDT by Hojczyk
But Politico senior media writer Jack Shafer wrote that the Globe’s effort is “sure to backfire” and simply offer Trump extra ammunition.
“It will provide Trump with the circumstantial evidence of the existence of a national press cabal that has been convened solely [to] oppose him,” Shafer wrote. “Trump will reap enough fresh material to wale on the media for at least a month.”
Shafer’s piece, “America’s newspapers just played right into Trump’s hands,” notes that Thursday’s editorials will allow Trump to criticize the Globe’s coordinated effort during upcoming rallies and speeches. The Politico writer even predicted Trump’s rhetoric.
“By colluding against me, the fake media proved, once and for all, that they are in cahoots with the Democrats and have declared themselves to be my true political opposition,” Shafer imagined Trump saying.
Shafer also criticized the upcoming anti-Trump editorials as “an exercise in redundancy” and “self-stroking,” because most newspapers have already gone after Trump’s attack on the press. In addition, Shafer pointed out that most editorial boards didn’t support Trump in the first place.
“Editorial-page sentiment against Trump remains largely unchanged since the election, making the call for a collective reprimand all the more pointless,” he wrote.
The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Miami Herald and Denver Post are among the newspapers scheduled to participate in the Globe’s effort. A variety of smaller papers will also partake.
“Most newspaper editorials are already a watered-down product of groupthink. It’s unlikely that expanding the size of the group and encouraging everybody to bake and serve a tuna-fish casserole on the same day will produce editorials that are more interesting and persuasive than the normal fare,” Shafer wrote. “Editorial pages of America, don’t unite! Think for yourselves! Reject this stupid pro-press assignment!”
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You can bet Rush, et al, will have montages galore of this crap.
What do they mean, “the MSM is “not” a domestic enemy”?? (paraphrase)
Keep talking MSM....
>>It will provide Trump with the circumstantial evidence of the existence of a national press cabal that has been convened solely [to] oppose him<<
Nothing circumstantial about it. It will prove once again to Real America that the fake news has it in for President Trump.
And this will make President Trump the one thing Americans love: a victim being picked on by bullies.
It is certain to nudge people on the edge into Trump 2020 and also the candidates who support him (and he supports).
Thanks, media, for playing into President Trump’s hands.
Yeah, they are starting to realize it but they just. Can’t. Help themselves.
Exactly. It might fire Trump up on twitter and at rallies. The average Joe will see, once again, that Trump is right, the media is biased against him and think less of them and more of him.
It is amazing these folks are so blind and narrow-minded. TDS
Collusion!
They’re exposing themselves as to what they really are.
OOOOO! tomorrow! all those editorials! now they’re really going to get Trump!
You scared? me neither.
This event seems like group fluffing.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I wonder how many proggies self-flaggelate?
OOOOO! tomorrow! all those editorials! now they’re really going to get Trump!
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How will I be able to tell their coordinated anti-Trump editorials from any other day’s editorials?
Seems more like a giant MSM circle jerk. That’s how most of America will see it.....but the MSM is too closed off in their Leftist Group Think silo and too self righteous and arrogant to grasp that.
All newspapers should have a warning label:
“We hate Trump and hate hate speech.” ;-)
Coordinated editorials in all the newspapers! Nobody's gonna vote for Trump now.
I'm afraid the jig is up boys. Time to pack it in. It's been a nice ride.
The media has been ranting and raving since Trump was elected, telling their readers and viewers on a daily basis that they were wrong to elect Trump as President. One day of smug editorials saying the same thing they’ve been saying since Trump was elected won’t be very useful, except to point out how out of touch these editorialist and so-called journalist are with the common person on the street.
Trump won and they will NEVER get over it. Gees... They still haven’t gotten over Reagan winning in 1980 and 1984.
Rush took Friday off as a Vacation Day.
Turns out he became Ill over the Weekend and has been out sick. Hi is supposed to be back tomorrow just in time for the Print Media’s coordinated (collusion?) hissy fit.
Rush took Friday off as a Vacation Day.
Turns out he became Ill over the Weekend and has been out sick. Hi is supposed to be back tomorrow just in time for the Print Media’s coordinated (collusion?) hissy fit.
The real stupidity is the hubris that this will actually do anything. After all that has happened, they are still living in the delusion that their opinions on any of this matters.
Trump would never have gotten elected if people remotely cared about the opinions of editorial pages.
Well, let’s see: A group whom the majority of the population views as smug, self-satisfied and dishonest are getting together to simultateously publish smug, self-satisfied and dishonest editorials, with a dash of victim hood thrown in. What could go wrong?!
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