Posted on 08/24/2017 8:21:19 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Sigh. If only President Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists.
What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazis or violent white supremacists? Yet Trump manages to make it infinitely complicated — and then get distracted by self-pity and excoriate reporters for committing journalism. The key strain of his sulfurous speech in Phoenix on Tuesday was an extended attack on “dishonest” reporters (including at “the failing New York Times”).
Look, we in journalism deserve to have our feet held to the fire. We make mistakes all the time, and too often we are superficial, sensationalist, unfair, defensive or diverted by shiny objects. Critics are right that we in the national media are often out of touch with working-class America, and distressingly often, we are lap dogs instead of watchdogs.
Yet for all our failings, journalism remains an indispensable constraint on power. Trump has systematically tried to delegitimize the institutions that hold him accountable — courts, prosecutors, investigators, the media — and that’s the context for his vilification of all them, for we collectively provide monitoring that outrages him.
The New York Times and The Washington Post have separately tallied Trump’s lies, with The Post calculating that he has now made more than 1,000 misleading statements since assuming the presidency. That’s a grueling pace of almost five a day, and it is accelerating (at the six-month mark, it was 4.6 a day). This prevarication proliferation is an indication that John F. Kelly is unable to rein in Trump, and that the problem was not Steve Bannon but the president himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Start acting like journalists and not political hacks.
What do you expect from a newspaper literally owned by the Mexican cartels?
There. Fixed it for consideration of consistency.
They declared themselves part of the #Resistance coup
They conspired with the DNC itself to provide Hillary the questions in advance of a primary townhall vs Bernie Sanders
They are advocates, activists, partisans, and liars.
They aren’t journalists. Journolist exposed that
Trump's the president Mr. Kristof, not the enemy. Quit lying about him 24/7.
If you are biased to one side you are not a journalist,you are a prejudiced commentator. They are peeing on the public shoes and telling them it is raining.
I read their compilation of “lies” some time ago.
They are nit pickers of trivia.
Too bad they can’t point to a similar inhouse compilation of Hussein’s transgressions.
Well, you just proved the fact that you are biased journalist with the opening sentence, as you forgot to add the BLM, as racists also. Until you add them to the group, you are part of the problem, and as usual, President Trump is correct.
You’re LESS of “Journ-O-Lists” than I am . . MUCH LESS. At least I have some semblance of OBJECTIVITY
You’re laughable, Kristof. BTW, weren’t you the one encouraging people to break the law and filter Trump’s taxes to you?
Phony POS. No wonder you are #FakeNews. You’re nothing more than a mouthpiece for the far far left. You wouldn’t know objectivity if it hit you in your fat ass
Journalism and it’s tenacious patience is something our instant gratification society has no relationship with. Bureau chiefs either. The product cycle for a news story has been reduced to ten minutes of cut and paste with chat room sources.
Where is the WaPo and Slimes lists of Obama’s lies, given That Obama is by far the biggest liar ever to have occupied the White House. And Obozo’s lies are nasty, vicious and on substantive matters.
toe-mate-oh.................toe-maht-oh
Ever since the infamous wally concrete declaration that Viet Nam was lost..............well, newspaper=toilet paper/fish wrapper/fire starter. Just sayin’ my trust in them kinda evaporated that many years ago. Nearing 50 years now.
They’re not journalists
Theyre propagandists
Hence the near absolute uniformity of their reports even to the same words and phrases
Propagandists are the enemy
Axis Sally was not a journalist
This is the big lie. Journalism is by no means a "constraint on power", because journalists, as a group, only criticize one side of the spectrum, and they applaud, cover up for, and abet the leftists in power.
By methodically whitewashing the behavior of antifa in Charlottesville, journalism is enlisting themselves against free speech (for non-journalists). By painting any actions taken against someone labeled as "white supremacists" as being acceptable, journalism delegitamizes itself.
I refuse to accept this self-serving idiot's premise.
And there's the issue, Mr. Kristof.
You and your other "journalists" wouldn't have even thought of doing the same for Barack Obama.
You worked, tirelessly, to get Obama elected.
You worked, tirelessly, in support of Obama while he was president.
You worked, tirelessly, to get Hillary elected.
Now that Hillary lost, you are working, tirelessly, to smear Trump.
The American people want Trump.
You are the enemy.
Propagandists are not journalists.
Oh yes you are, ‘media.’
Denouncing communists and violent black supremacists comes to mind ... there are more of them, and Big Media is infested with them.
Journalists = Anthony in “It’s a Wonderful World” episode of Twilight Zone.
Childish and delusional, abusive of their power.
Theme also used in a Simpsons Treehouse episode (for you youngsters out there).
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