Donald Trump’s disturbing war on the press has now escalated
The Donald Trump vengeance tour is on the road and the media is in its crosshairs. “It should have been the justice department or somebody else, but I have to do it,” the president-elect intoned on Monday. “It costs a lot of money to do it, but we have to straighten out the press.”
“Our press is very corrupt,” he continued. “Almost as corrupt as our elections.”
Also on Monday, a 15-year-old student in Wisconsin killed two people, injured six others, and took her own life with a 9mm pistol. The US supreme court, however, accords firearms the same constitutional protections as speech and worship. In Trumpworld, guns and the second amendment rock, the press not so much.
Presumably the Gruaniad wishes its easily triggered readers to remain undisturbed by hints of an obvious, long-running cause for Donald Trump's attitude to media bias.
For the view he took of life was very simple, undisturbed by any sense of irony, unspoiled by curiosity, or desire to link effect with cause, or indeed, to admit the necessity of cause at all.
John Galsworthy – A Motley (1910)
5 comments:
You do wonder about media people. They are a group who've aggregated over time to a constituency with uniformly progressive left world views and it never occurs to them, that there may be other opinions about how society could be run; historical perspectives; other world views.
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Any mention of a certain "vaccine" side effects, boevaer, the million war casualties in Ukraine, farmers revolting in France, Canada, UK, anywhere, ditto truckers in Canada, the Middle East cluster beeeep, current POTUS zombie, and his dear son, Surkeir revelations.......hold on.......oh noes.....look here......Tumshie heid Greg Wallace uttered hurty words...ten? years ago.
See. Our MSM is right on the ball.
Move on! Nothing to see here.
Tammly - and now they have to compete with online media instead of being ready for it with contrasting opinions, historical perspectives and some genuinely factual material. Shout louder and suppress is what they prefer instead.
Doonhamer - it's almost understandable that there are people who don't want the full story, they don't want to know how bad it is, how they are routinely lied to and how indifferent the world is to their comfort zones.
"The US supreme court, however, accords firearms the same constitutional protections as speech and worship. In Trumpworld, guns and the second amendment rock, the press not so much."
Bizarre reasoning even for the Guardian. Both the press and guns are protected, and are considered to be a good thing. But if you shoot up a school, or attempt to subvert the democratic process by lying about poll results, you will find that your protection ends, and the police come after you. It's not so hard to understand.
Sam - yes it's Guardian whataboutery. In spite of its pretensions, it doesn't seem to feel any need to rise above this kind of pub rhetoric. It's a pity, there is much to be done in bringing journalism up to a better standard, but rags like the Guardian don't care.
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