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Commentary: Newspapers don't help themselves by coordinating against Trump
CBS News ^ | August 16, 2018 | Michael Graham

Posted on 08/16/2018 3:15:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you are a Trump voter who thinks that much of the press is reflexively hostile to the president, 300 of America's leading newspapers want you to know that you might be on to something.

In a self-defeating act of journalistic groupthink, America's editorial pages launched a coordinated protest against President Trump on Thursday, all running negative editorials attacking the president over his #FakeNews rhetoric.

The Boston Globe, who organized the effort, calls it "educating readers" about "an attack on the First Amendment." But to the average American, seeing an editorial in their local paper trashing Trump is called "A day that ends in 'y.'"

Seriously—Who's going to be persuaded by this effort, or be impressed that a few hundred newspapers can hum the same tune? Who's even going to notice?

Well, the newspapers will notice, of course. There's a run on pain pills from all the muscle injuries inflicted by self-indulgent media back-patting. "A Free Press Needs You," a New York Times editorial headline blared on Wednesday, praising themselves for "answering the call" of the Boston Globe and courageously facing the threat that is Donald Trump.

#FakeNews? That phrase is "dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy," the Times intoned. "And calling journalists the 'enemy of the people' is dangerous, period."

And to prove we aren't the enemy, we in the media are going to band together and go after the guy who keeps saying we are! The same guy we attack every day, seemingly no matter what he does, and in ways we've never attacked a politician before!

That might be an unfair characterization, but it's easy to understand why Trump supporters would see it that way. They remember the Obama administration spying on reporters....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: cbs; media; mediabias; newspapers; trump; trumpmedia
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1 posted on 08/16/2018 3:15:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have “journalists” always been the most massive hypocritical drama queens on the planet?


2 posted on 08/16/2018 3:33:23 AM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, coordinating with each other to attack Trump will convince everyone the media is unbiased. /s


3 posted on 08/16/2018 3:36:21 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Boston Globe, who organized the effort, calls it “educating readers” about “an attack on the First Amendment.”

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Donald Trump exercising his First Amendment right to expose the lies and corruption of the press is somehow an attack on the First Amendment.


4 posted on 08/16/2018 3:39:15 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Everybody should buy one of these papers on Thursday and designate a collection point to gather them all up and send them to socialist Venezuela for them to use as toilet paper.


5 posted on 08/16/2018 3:41:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s a “newspaper”?


6 posted on 08/16/2018 3:43:54 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

97% of newspapers are opposed to Trump. It is a consensus, so don’t be a denier.


7 posted on 08/16/2018 3:49:16 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are there really 300 “leading” newspapers left in the country?


8 posted on 08/16/2018 3:51:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If I knew when I was going to need my gun, I wouldn't need my gun.)
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To: VTenigma
What’s a “newspaper”?

It is great fun! It is something that one can handily take a piece of, fold it in such a way as to make it look like an airplane, and then one can hold it and fling it, and watch it fly like an airplane... out the window.

9 posted on 08/16/2018 3:52:04 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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10 posted on 08/16/2018 4:06:06 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because, Trump!

National Catastrophe!

Intolerable Condition!

(Ain’t constitutional republican, electoral,democracy grand?)


11 posted on 08/16/2018 4:08:01 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Everybody should buy one of these papers on Thursday and designate a collection point to gather them all up and send them to socialist Venezuela for them to use as toilet paper.”

No, don’t buy! Just wait until they don’t all sell out, grab one off the recycle pile and then ship to Venezuela!


12 posted on 08/16/2018 4:09:19 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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13 posted on 08/16/2018 4:14:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The New York Times is a racist hate group. It is Propaganazism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow—Can’t believe this appeared under the CBS News logo. Someone must be asleep at the switch.

Speaking of CBS, I used to think Major Garrett was conservative when he was at Fox News. After watching his reporting on Trump for CBS.....boy, was I wrong!!


14 posted on 08/16/2018 4:14:54 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just like leftest clockwork, our local rag The Morning Call is on the list complaining about Trumps “Enemy of the People” charge.

Yes, all you leftest puke democrat hacks pretending to be journalists, YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! You need to be destroyed.


15 posted on 08/16/2018 4:16:54 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Lazamataz

You forgot the other 250.


16 posted on 08/16/2018 4:18:56 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. Even tho physically free, Tommy's not free yet. He's still facing charges.)
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To: C210N

That’s about all they are good for. I haven’t read one in years, or watched a mainstream news show for that matter including Fox.


17 posted on 08/16/2018 4:27:26 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They all say the same thing every day. There is no need to choose one day in which to coordinate stories. They all hide the truth about m*slims and non-Whites. They all inflate and hype stories in which a White is to blame. They all lie to protect America haters. They all invent and publish stories about normal people. They all deny fact, such as the fact that sex is determined at conception, and confirmed at birth, and that it cannot be changed by anything, hormones or scalpel, or by wishing.
The entire news media is irresponsible and responsible for the destruction of this country.


18 posted on 08/16/2018 4:34:18 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The news media is the enemy of the people, and published fake news.)
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To: StoneRainbow68

they were emboldened by their hateful treatment of President Bush.End the industry now and remake it.


19 posted on 08/16/2018 4:47:57 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lazamataz
There's a run on pain pills from all the muscle injuries inflicted by self-indulgent media back-patting. "A Free Press Needs You," a New York Times editorial headline blared on Wednesday, praising themselves for "answering the call" of the Boston Globe and courageously facing the threat that is Donald Trump.

Well isn't that special. Just in case you aren't aware how all of this is being coordinated, the Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times.

20 posted on 08/16/2018 5:01:37 AM PDT by Bryan ( The Democrats are destroying this country, one check at a time)
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