Posted on 08/19/2018 6:14:38 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
This month marks the two-year anniversary of one of the most important articles ever written on journalism. On Aug. 7, 2016, after Donald Trump formally secured the Republican nomination and the general election was underway, New York Times media columnist James Rutenberg began with a question:
“If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Not only their bias against Trump but also their bias FOR Obama. Pravda was better.
Dear journo, That isnt your call to make. You report the facts and let READERS DECIDE.
The News business could report the News. They could — I dunno — set aside a couple pages for an “editorial” section where they could have writers say “This guy is no good” or “This woman is going to save us”. But most of the coverage should just be aimed at giving facts.
Bold concept, I’m sure.
Excellent article. One thing that struck me was this:
“Nancy Ancrum, the editorial-page editor of The Miami Herald, told Fox News her paper joined the effort without any hope of changing the minds of Trump supporters because “they are just too far gone.””
The journo world is so left wing and lives in such a bubble that, as Goodwin pointed out, they think they can just dismiss 62 million Americans who voted for Trump as being not quite the “right kind of people.” In other words, their kind.
I voted for Trump, not because I liked him personally, but because he had real ideas and I was living in NY during the time he was rebuilding Wollman Rink and doing a lot of other things with his private money because the dysfunctional City of New York, prior to Giuliani, couldn’t do anything. Of course, at the same time, we had daily updates on his contentious divorces, so I was sort of used to that aspect. But the thing is that I think he has real respect for the US, and now I think that his sometimes bizarre rhetoric is the only thing that has managed to break through the journalistic left wing stonewall and get his message out.
And you can see how much the journalism world hates not only Trump but all the rest of us.
Excellent column.
I think the media’s ire against Trump is due to the fact that they can’t control him, and he doesn’t kiss their butts.
“You report the facts and let READERS DECIDE. “
I was having a conversation with my editor at the Tallahassee Democrat. (I wrote 50+ commercial articles, meaning to highlight the paper’s advertisers.) I asked why the paper continued to carry the cartoon Doonesbury when every survey they sent out said their readers didn’t like it. She said, something like, “Our readers are all idiots and we have to tell them how to think.” Really, it was something that startling. It also highlighted why the paper has been on a two decade decline in readership.
At the time I worked for an Israeli owned firm in town. One morning two of the American Jews were having a conversation outside my office. These were professional people deeply connected with universities and uber-liberal. There had been yet another article the previous Sunday on Rosewood, a “black” town in Florida that was attacked by the KKK in the ‘20’s and eliminated as a town. (These articles where a regular, appearing about twice a month at the time.) One of the Jews said he had cancelled his subscription to the Democrat because he was tired of reading about how he was such a racist. “Really,” he said, “we had nothing to do with this and every article implies we did just because we’re white. I’m tired of it.”
“...you can see how much the journalism world hates not only Trump but all the rest of us.”
The journo world actually speaks for a larger group — the Leftist “intellectual centers” of all the major coastal cities and universities. This group reviles regular Americans, their history, the military, the police, etc. Think Andrew Cuomo’s “America was never that great.” The MSM is their newsletter.
I agree they’ve learned nothing but even they have wearied of manufacturing his ‘crimes.’
They have circled back entirely to the same strategy, such as it is, they tried during the campaign: all racism all the time. If the sun goes behind a cloud it’s Trump’s doing because he hates black people. Apparently he operated properties around the world and employed black people in construction, accounting, operations, security, casinos, etc. and paid them market wages or better because...he hated them. Bizarre but then so are the media.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the media can trumpet a disgruntled black WH staffer’s rants but can’t find anyone black who worked happily for Trump despite Trump having a high profile business empire over many decades. Obviously they don’t want to hear or amplify anything positive but they pretend that sticking fingers in ears means silence everywhere else. They are juvenile in the extreme.
From their conception Newspapers were always biased.
The difference between newspapers today and in the past is competition. Until television (and TV news broadcast) the only source of news was newspapers.
But remember what business newspapers are in. It is not news, but advertising. That is how they made money. The more subscribers they had, the more they could charge.
Now a biased newspaper is going to make half the readers mad and half happy. The solution, almost every town had at least two newspapers. They were each biased but on opposite sides of every question and they kept the other “honest”.
In the 1950s the decline of newspapers began. Over time most areas were covered by only one newspaper until today there are just a few corporations that owned most of the newspapers. So they all speak with one voice.
I understand bias, and accept it, I just wished there was still competition to provide a check and balance.
The inter-net came along and it looked like we would return to the time there was a check and balance but the big boys did not want competition (either business wise or opinion wise) and are attempting to shut down all opposing views.
I personally think this will fail as others move in to provide the platform for opposing views.
So newspapers will remain biased even as they are dying because of it.
Liberals running the CIA and our 'intelligence' services 'leak' to the New York Times and others in media. That allows 'the press' to downsize investigative reporters out of jobs AND it make the press dependent on government criminals for their existence.
It's as if the Treasury Department 'leaked' to Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and both those companies were able to downsize their analyst out of existence... Yes, it would be criminal but IF YOU ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL YOU CAN COUNT ON PAUL'S SUPPORT.
That why the press is dependent and corrupt and it's why they back criminals in 'intelligence'... like Brennan. Michael Goodwin is close...
It all boils down to the analogy that “They” take Trump literally, but not seriously “We” take Trump seriously, but not literally.
I was disappointed Trump met with the NY Times, especially the silver spooner Sulzberger. They’ve been absolutely blackguarding him.
What the media fails to recognize is that when you start from a position of hating someone you are trying, as a journalist, to cover, your hatred blinds you to that person.
What journalists call facts about Trump are selectively chosen to support their hatred, not to get at the truth.
Goodwin is correct in that a prejudiced press should recuse itself from covering Trump.
They don't care a whit about developing an understand of him.
BTW, if they did develop an understanding of Trump, they would see that ALL of their accusations can be explained by the way he operates (i.e. as a negotiator).
Furthermore, the accusations that Trump is a racist are not based on anything that Trump has done or said. It is because the accusation of racism is the last resort of those who have no rational arguments with what Trump is doing.
And since when is "nationalism" a bad thing? But, actually, the accusation of "nationalism" here isn't what it seems.
No one really thinks that putting America first is a bad thing.
"Nationalism" as a bad thing is associated with--wait for it--Nazi Germany.
As Reagan would say...there they go again.
Back in my high school years, I actually believed journalists were smart.
Remember this folks: they really hate us, the racist, homophobic, misogynistic, white Christian, basket of deplorables, males. Only slightly better are .... females and that is not saying much.
That kind of elitist anti-intellectualism starts at schools that teach journalism to know-nothings like her.
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