How dare anyone criticize the unknown number of guests who found their way onto the Obamas’ $12 million Martha’s Vineyard estate on Saturday! These were “sophisticated people”. The sort that are too smart and urbane to catch or spread viruses.
All tagged media
How dare anyone criticize the unknown number of guests who found their way onto the Obamas’ $12 million Martha’s Vineyard estate on Saturday! These were “sophisticated people”. The sort that are too smart and urbane to catch or spread viruses.
Apparently there were at least three separate shooting incidents Friday. Fistfights ended in tragedy when hoodlums pulled out their pieces and began shooting at each other. Sounds more like gangbangers than ordinary, decent disturbing-the-peace types.
Someday members of the American media will be judged for their lazy coverage of this pandemic, their unquestioning support of shutdowns and the hysteria they ginned up with their shallow reporting.
Jim Bacon is back with a thought-provoking piece about the value of newspapers that charge more and give readers less.
These are not journalists, they are social provocateurs on a mission that has nothing to do with informing the public.
How dare The Washington Post publish a story showing that some cases of the dreaded coronavirus are mild.
As Monday wore on it became clear that members of the media - who were clearly hoping for trouble, telling each other to “be safe” as if they were war correspondents - would have to write upbeat pieces instead of sneering stories about hillbillies.
I assume evangelicals are no more likely to change their political views based on the scribblings of an editor in Illinois than the rest of us are when the New York Times tells us how we should vote.
When I was a reporter, I would have been fired for posting something like that. It would have constituted a journalistic high crime, like plagiarism.
Just ask your freaking question, Wolf. If you have to explain that this really is a “substantive question,” perhaps it’s not.
How in God’s name did footage from Kentucky wind up on the news at ABC? It would be nice if someone would elaborate.
On one hand, we have a woman trying to fuel a race war. On the other we have a jerk who harasses pregnant women. And then there’s the gullible press corps.
It’s a delicate balance. Weighing the need to know against the danger of romanticizing a killer.
Naturally, members of the media ate up the story and licked the spoon.
Doesn’t matter if you’re pro- or anti-Trump, fact is, this choreographed stunt will fuel the president’s narrative that the press corps is a leviathan trying to bring down his presidency.