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| Media return from soul-searching empty-handed | |
| 2017-02-12 | |
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "We're covering this president as we've covered presidents in the past," Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron bragged to the website Business Insider last week. "We haven't changed how we do our jobs."
If there is one thing everyone will remember years from now about Trump's campaign, it was his promise to restrict illegal immigration. Contrary to the opinion of Times' columnist Nicholas Kristof, who compared taking a pause on taking in Syrian refugees to the internment of Japanese Americans, a more orderly and selective immigration policy is pretty popular. But after one undocumented Democrat who had been living in the U.S. for decades using a fraudulent Social Security number was deported last week, all three network prime-time newscasts put together packages on "the family she leaves behind" (CBS correspondent Carter Evans' words). Trump's message to "Make America Great Again" (or as the media recall it, "The End Times") was powerful enough to overcome the minor controversies and tiffs that journalists covered so extensively. It behooves the Times or the Post to get a writer who sees something good about Trump's appeal and the people who support him. Instead we get Charles Blow who twice each week thinks he's making a smart and principled statement by referring to Trump as "president" in quotes. We get Buzzfeed's top editor, Ben Smith, offering that for the media to cover Trump thoroughly, it may sometimes require "publishing unverified information." That's not fake news. He said that after his website was torched for publishing the now infamous dossier of unsubstantiated claims about Trump's personal and financial life. To admit a readiness to repeat that episode requires more soul-searching. Maybe the media will find something next time. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Media return from soul-searching empty-handed Dunno who wrote it, but that headline could be Snark of the Day. I'm guessing they also don't cast a reflection in a mirror. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-02-12 16:10 |
| #1 They went to search their souls and evidently couldn't find them. You didn't sell them at some point, maybe? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-02-12 10:03 |