By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | July 9, 2020
There has never been a presidential campaign in the United States where the administration was so massively opposed by the principal press outlets as in this election. Nor, in at least a century, have the national political media so widely and thoroughly discarded the traditional criterion for journalistic professionalism: the clear division between comment and reporting. Almost throughout the four-term presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the great majority of American newspapers was officially opposed to him. But far more important than the publishers' editorial recommendations were the generally favorable disposition to him of the working press. He charmed them, and the journalists ate from his hand.............
With few exceptions, the United States is now served by a national political media that is incapable of reporting about the president accurately, that baits him at press briefings with disgusting insolence, and that is extraordinarily negligent in ignoring or downplaying anything that reflects poorly on the president’s other enemies, the media’s allies in the war against the president............
If President Trump is reelected, his enemies will not have the strength or credibility to continue to obstruct with the fiendish determination of his first term.
If Joe Biden wins, he will be an ineffectual figurehead in a chaotic and radical administration........To Read More.....
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