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Media justify anti-Trump bias, claim he's too 'dangerous' for normal rules
Fox News ^ | August 09, 2016 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 08/10/2016 1:11:29 PM PDT by VitacoreVision

The media’s legions of Trump-bashers are finally acknowledging the obvious.

And trying their best to justify it.

But there’s one problem: Tilting against one candidate in a presidential election can’t be justified.

This is not a defense of Donald Trump, who has been at war with much of the press since he got in the race. Too many people think if you criticize the way the billionaire is being covered, you are somehow backing Trump.

And it’s not about the commentators, on the right as well as the left, who are savaging Trump, since they are paid for their opinions.

This is about the mainstream media’s reporters, editors and producers, whose credo is supposed to be fairness.

And now some of them are flat-out making the case for unfairness—an unprecedented approach for an unprecedented campaign.

Put aside, for the moment, the longstanding complaints about journalists being unfair to Republicans. They never treated Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush or Bob Dole like this.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; boogedyboogedy; handwringers; kurtz; liberalbias; mediabias; trump; yellowjournalism
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Liberal media bias has long been an open secret. But now it’s so bad that even a liberal mainstream newspaper notes that, in an effort to destroy Donald Trump, the media have jumped the shark.

Clinton vs. Trump? No, It’s the Media vs. America
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/23800-clinton-vs-trump-no-it-s-the-media-vs-america
1 posted on 08/10/2016 1:11:29 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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Trump has accomplished this much, media bias is so blatant even they have to admit it.


2 posted on 08/10/2016 1:13:24 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Too dangerous? Okay lying media scum... why don’t one of you libtard scumbags go ask Shahram Amiri about the danger posed by Skankles the Mao suit wearing sociopath?


3 posted on 08/10/2016 1:16:19 PM PDT by Common Sense 101
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The Liberal Media and to a large extent FNC are simply the propaganda wing of the DNC-RNC Uniparty.


4 posted on 08/10/2016 1:21:16 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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Is there any Conservative that is not too Dangerous for the Marxist media?

Pray America wakes


5 posted on 08/10/2016 1:23:32 PM PDT by bray (Clinton/Paine in the neck)
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Right out of the playbook.

6 posted on 08/10/2016 1:23:57 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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They can say “normal rules” with a straight face???


7 posted on 08/10/2016 1:25:33 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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A dishonest press is dangerous.


8 posted on 08/10/2016 1:27:35 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Why isn't Hillary in jail?)
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So, if the media is so biased that even they have to admit it themselves, why should anyone pay to read whatever they publish? If people want to see the Democrat talking points, why shouldn’t they just go to the DNC webpage and read what’s there for free?

Why should people waste time and money on a damaged product?


9 posted on 08/10/2016 1:32:21 PM PDT by RAldrich
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Is there a Weekly graph that we can display that tracks the Media’s viewership ratings or do they hide such data during hard times?


10 posted on 08/10/2016 1:32:47 PM PDT by eaglestar
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claim he's too 'dangerous' for normal rules

Their normal rules are already amazingly biased most of the time, so what do they do after that?

11 posted on 08/10/2016 1:35:17 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill TWITTER !! Kill FACEBOOK !! Free MILO !!)
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Trump should officially declare CNN a hostile network and will no longer be granting them Press credentials till they can begin to show some semblance of objectivity & even handedness in their election coverage.

Start with them first.


12 posted on 08/10/2016 1:35:43 PM PDT by eaglestar
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If Trump is elected, he shouldn’t give these clowns the time of day.


13 posted on 08/10/2016 1:42:32 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Come back David Dewhurst; all is forgiven!")
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bkmk


14 posted on 08/10/2016 2:07:24 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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The Ministry of Propaganda have their marching orders.
The citizens must not be allowed to elect anyone as President who would shut down the Cheap Labor Express.
There has been a 30 year bipartisan policy of flooding the country with fraudulently documented foreigners and they are not about to let us reverse it.


15 posted on 08/10/2016 2:11:33 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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They can say “normal rules” with a straight face???


Let’s face it—they will always say the GOP nominee is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc, etc. So that will be there excuse for no longer even feigning objectivity.


16 posted on 08/10/2016 2:18:48 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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My hatred for the Media grows with each passing day.


17 posted on 08/10/2016 2:36:22 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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Trump is getting a double dose of the medias Palin treatment.


18 posted on 08/10/2016 2:58:49 PM PDT by euram
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19 posted on 08/10/2016 3:00:02 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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Hey Media. Just remember the rules you’re setting for yourself.


20 posted on 08/10/2016 3:02:28 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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