We’re Journalists, Mr. Trump, Not the Enemy (Barf Alert)

NY Times ^ | August 24, 2017 | Nicholas Kristof

[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.

[samtheman]

Stop lying, stop whining, do your freaking jobs as professionals, leave your extreme biases at home.

(I know there’s not a snowball’s chance of this happening, but I thought I’d mention it.)

[Paladin2]

Kristoff is BushHitler...

[alloysteel]

“Journalists” - Cheerleaders for hysteria and panic among the proletarians. NYT and the news are mutual strangers.

[Political Junkie Too]

Right, because "the enemy" would use D+9 polls to try to convince Republicans that their candidate is losing in a landslide.

-PJ

[yoe]

This is not fake but egged on by the fake news media besmirching America and President Trump...this is the face of racism.

[mad_as_he$$]

This guy is late to the party. This meme is so last Monday.

[Jonah Johansen]

An interesting exercise is to actually examine -one of the so called “lies”

In every case I have found one of the following two to be the case,

1. The so called “lie” is just a matter of inprecision, or an error which does not effect the point being made.
ex: Trump saying a head of state told him something on the phone, when in fact it occurred during a face to face meeting.
some of them are actually exceedingly trivial like saying something happened 3 years ago when it was actually 4 years.

2. More common, by far, are the so called “lies” which are in fact simply differences of opinion.
ex: Trump claiming the European governments now understand the need for them to increase their defense spending.

or
simply claiming that the Russian influence accusations are false, the MSM calls this a lie, simply because it goes against there false narrative.

In general the belief that Trump is a serial liar requires you believe everything that CNN reports is verified fact.

[HLPhat]

 

 

psy·cho·sis

sīˈkōsəs/

noun

1. a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
   

"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

 

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.

 

The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.

 

Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.  Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.  Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. 

 

Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups:  those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation;  [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution.  "

--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov

--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)

[Major Matt Mason]

Now, now, let's not be too hard on the journalist snowflakes. After all, they took an 8-year vacation, so you have to expect some rustiness.

[SoFloFreeper]

You fake news hacks LICKED THE BOOTS of Barack Hussein Obama.

You fake news hacks REFUSED to cover Hussein with the same vitriol as you’re covering Trump. Wikileaks CLEARLY showed collusion.

You guys vote 90%+ of the time for the DEMOCRAT and you have the NERVE to say you’re objective? Don’t make me laugh.

I am VERY HAPPY to see a Republican fight back against you guys. You’re angry because he hasn’t been like any Republican since Reagan in his ability and willingness to truly FIGHT.

[SandRat]

No, you’re not! You’re Urinalists.

[MeganC]

I’ve seen the emails with the media colluding with Hillary and the DNC to meddle in the election.

Knowing this then I have to say that if the media wants to report the news then do so.

But if they want to shape our opinions and influence our vote to the detriment of President Trump then they are by definition his adversaries.

They chose sides so they don’t have a right to whine when they have to face the consequences of that choice.

[RayChuang88]

More proof the Establishment Media is less reputable than The Onion. :-/

[libertylover]

See new tagline.

[EdnaMode]

Perfect.

[gunnyg]

Used to call it the “controlled media,” then, MSM, now...names more appropriate but not so nice, but more accurate!
;)
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Semper POTUS .45—If We Can Keep Him!
Gunny G
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[NorthMountain]

Ship those two worthless females off to Zimbabwe ... permanently. A communist country run by black supremacists should be just their thing.

[The people have spoken]

Here's a great editorial on the NYT's style of journalism.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/2016-election-demise-journalistic-standards/

[cincinnati65]

"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."

Yeah, um, why don't you do something about that?

[hal ogen]

They are "journalists" only if the meaning of "journalists" is liars.