R. Cort Kirkwood
More than 300 newspapers
joined the Big Cry in publishing self-righteous editorials to justify their
ideological disposition and take yet another shot at The Donald: Trump is Bad.
We are not “Enemies of The People.”
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Globe Leads the
Charge
The leader of the gang was The Boston Globe, the liberal media’s Mrs. Grundy, which opened with what logicians call the straw man: arguing against a point no one made:
The leader of the gang was The Boston Globe, the liberal media’s Mrs. Grundy, which opened with what logicians call the straw man: arguing against a point no one made:
A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault
on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but
rather “the enemy of the people.” This relentless assault on the free press has
dangerous consequences....
Replacing a free media with a state-run media has always been a first
order of business for any corrupt regime taking over a country. Today in the
United States we have a president who has created a mantra that members of the
media who do not blatantly support the policies of the current US
administration are the “enemy of the people.” This is one of the many lies that
have been thrown out by this president, much like an old-time charlatan threw
out “magic” dust or water on a hopeful crowd.
One might ask what the media
would call the daily, relentless attack on this president if not a “sustained assault,” and why he
should not fight back. But more importantly, the president has neither called for “replacing a free media with a
state-run media” nor demanded that the media “blatantly support” his
policies. Perhaps those are two small examples of “fake news” he decries.
Purple with rage ever since
November 8, 2016 but carefully avoiding Trump’s name for some reason, The New York Times claimed that “in 2018,
some of the most damaging attacks are coming from government officials,”
without telling us what “damage” was done and by whom.
These attacks on the press are particularly threatening to journalists
in nations with a less secure rule of law and to smaller publications in the
United States, already buffeted by the industry’s economic crisis. And yet the
journalists at those papers continue to do the hard work of asking questions
and telling the stories that you otherwise wouldn’t hear. Consider The San Luis Obispo Tribune,
which wrote about the death of a jail inmate who was restrained for 46 hours.
The account forced the county to change how it treats mentally ill prisoners.
What Trump has to do with a
newspaper in San Luis Obispo we are not given to know, but again, neither Trump
nor any of the “government officials” who supposedly “damage” the media have
said journalists should refrain from pursuing pressing stories important to
local voters and taxpayers, at least in the sense the Times suggests.
And “government officials” have always preferred to operate in the dark. Long
before Trump, they were hiding misdeeds and trying to stop reporters from
finding out.
Commenters on these editorials
weren’t fooled by the generic “government officials” locution; the Times meant
Trump, and they knew it.
But anyway, speaking of the
newspaper in San Luis Obispo, it explained that its reporters and columnists
inspired local politicians to clean up a beach, an anonymous Good Samaritan to
donate a kidney, and a coroner to change a wrongly decided cause of death.
“That’s not fake news from
enemies of the people,” the newspaper opined. “That’s real news, and it’s
coming to you from real journalists.”
Other newspapers talked about high-school football, zoning
boards, and public schools, and what the coverage those newspapers provide
means to a community.
Which misses the point of
Thursday’s Two Minutes of Hate: to mount a full-throated attack
against the president of the United States.
LA Times Declines
The Los Angeles Times declined to join the ranting mob. “This is not because we don’t believe that President Trump has been engaged in a cynical, demagogic and unfair assault on our industry,” the Times wrote.
The Los Angeles Times declined to join the ranting mob. “This is not because we don’t believe that President Trump has been engaged in a cynical, demagogic and unfair assault on our industry,” the Times wrote.
Rather, concluded the paper:
The president himself already treats the media as a cabal — “enemies of
the people,” he has called us, suggesting over and over that we’re in cahoots
to do damage to the country. The idea of joining together to protest him seems
almost to encourage that kind of conspiracy thinking by the president and his
loyalists. Why give them ammunition to scream about “collusion”?
Trump Responds
For his part, the president answered the media using his favorite unfiltered platform, Twitter, where he allows readers to bash him quite freely.
For his part, the president answered the media using his favorite unfiltered platform, Twitter, where he allows readers to bash him quite freely.
“The Boston Globe, which was sold to the Failing New York Times for 1.3
BILLION DOLLARS (plus 800 million dollars in losses & investment), or 2.1
BILLION DOLLARS, was then sold by the Times for 1 DOLLAR,” Trump wrote. “Now the
Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!” Trump
continued,
There is nothing that I would want more for our
Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to
write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing
a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!
Which is precisely the point.
Americans woke up Friday morning to the same fully-functioning, anti-Trump
leftist media.
R. Cort Kirkwood,
The New American, August 17, 2018
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