Ref: Daily
Press 8-19-2018 opinion “We will not be bullied”
Ref: 8-17-2018
opinion Williamsburg Gazette, author Peggy Bellows
The Boston
Globe offered the national media an opportunity to join them in POTUS bashing.
I offer this discourse.
Two weeks
into Donald Trumps presidency, The New York Times ran an article detailing how
President Donald Trump in his bathrobe, wandered the halls, looking for light
switches. This is the first of many attacks by the media on a president that a
left leaning industry full of self-righteous started their relationship with
the winner of the 2016 election. Please explain to me what this type of attack
had to do with reporting other than to bully or hurt someone?
Traditionally,
respect for the highest office in the land encourage restraint in reporting
gossip or paparazzi style fake news. Traditionally reporters would have been
shunned to use unnamed sources and offer their own opinions. This new form of
coverage makes President Trump the most unjustly treated President in recent
history.
Example: You
quoted Thomas Jefferson and yet you did not tell a complete story so let me
help you tell your customers the truth where you fail. “Were it left to me to
decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers
without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. This
was written when Thomas Jefferson was the U.S. Minister. During his Presidency,
he became critical of the press for what he saw as the partisan nature of the
press. I quote Thomas Jefferson “Nothing can not be believed which is seen in a
newspaper.” This is a great example of how the media manipulates the truth; it
is an example of your deceit.
You do
perform a critical function of holding people accountable, but when you let
your own agenda interfere with that function you become unreliable. The truth
is you do not dig for the truth if, the truth does not fit the lefts narrative.
Example: The POTUS offered balanced remarks on the Charlottesville
race riots, when he commented on both sides at fault. News media were quick to share pictures of
illegal immigrant children in steel cages blaming the Trump administration,
turns out those pictures were taken during the Obama reign. The media in its quest
to offer a misrepresentation of what Trump has said and done is quite blatant
in this writer’s opinion. One has to ask, does the media do this because of a
mental disorder “trump derangement syndrome” to know that what they are saying
is true or false, or are they simply lying? It doesn’t make much difference; the
public’s trust of the media is at all-time lows of 32% and yet they double down
with more deceit. The damage to the media’s credibility has been done and at
their own hands.
