Bias permeates The Washington Post. The newspaper, which was put on the map thanks to the Watergate scandal, offers solid coverage of political affairs (obvious since it’s based in DC), but does so from a decidedly left-of-center worldview. I was not surprised when I read on the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org website a column from Brent Bozell and Tim Graham congratulating presidential candidate Donald Trump for barring the Post‘s press credentials. In a column released today, they said this:
Attacking the media is categorized as “grotesque” and “vindictive.” And then they added: “Mr. Trump capped a day of assaulting fundamental liberal democratic values by announcing he would ban Post reporters from covering his campaign events. If this is his inclination now, imagine how he might wield the powers of the presidency.”,....To Read More....
My Take - This article is- in my opinion- a bit strange, but one thing is clear. The press, and the media as a whole, have been an obnoxious, arrogant, unfair self promoting bunch head nodders living inside a bell chamber telling each other how important they are and how the rules that apply to everyone else doesn’t apply to them. And now they've been put on notice - get your act together or get out!
Is Trump being obnoxious? Sure....but so what, it's long overdue for the press to stop being treated with kid gloves and the public has known this for years....and Trump is doing it and that's why they like him so much. They've earned this treatment. It's about time someone forced them to eat some humble pie. And let's face it. Newspapers and electronic media are not the power mongers they once were. The internet is now king when people - including a substantial number of professional people - who wish to really know what's going on. it's not the 'fringe' people who dominate when it comes to blogs. It's the intelligent, educated and well off who are sick of the media and wish to be informed.
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