Posted on 08/22/2018 4:40:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Boston Globe successfully organized a campaign to get nearly 350 newspapers, large and small, to publish an editorial on Aug. 16 on "the dangers of the administration's assault on the press." They laughably claimed: "This whole project is not anti-Trump. It's really pro-press."
This was The Globe's summation: "The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful. To label the press 'the enemy of the people' is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries."
It's easy (and obvious) for any newspaper to write purple prose about the glories of the First Amendment and the crucial role the press plays in keeping governments accountable. The rebuttal is just as easy: Many liberal media outlets stink at holding liberal politicians accountable. Instead, they gush over them and defend them at every turn, refusing to advance stories that could damage their reputations. Let's do a quick review of The Globe "holding liberals accountable."
-- Just a few weeks ago, The Globe's deputy Washington bureau chief, Matt Viser, wrote a gushy valentine to Sen. Ted Cruz's ultraliberal opponent Rep. Beto O'Rourke in Town & Country Magazine, naturally comparing him and his "inspiring message" to "Bobby Kennedy in 1968."
-- When the movie "Chappaquiddick" came out in April, Globe film critic Ty Burr touted Ted Kennedy's "endless accomplishments" in the Senate and added that the Kennedys "remain royalty in a country of grudging commoners." Was the movie true? The critic concluded, "I'll never know, and neither will you."
-- In January, The Globe topped a Sunday paper with a headline oozing over former President Barack Obama: "Gone but Still Growing on Us." It began: "His poll numbers look great, his Twitter posts are often among the most read in the world, and with every utterance, his impassioned base of supporters reacts with a fervor more typical for celebrities than former civil servants. Meet Barack Obama." Can you smell them holding presidents accountable?
-- Last September, The Globe's front page carried a story implausibly promoting ultraliberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren as a Bible-thumping Christian. "Warren is well known for her acrid take on Wall Street" and Donald Trump, "But religious leaders who have known her since her first run for public office say her Christian faith is a constant, if quiet, presence in her life, that it is deep and authentic, and informs her work as a senator." That echoes the way liberals promoted Hillary Clinton and skips over their hardcore defense of abortion on demand.
By contrast, The Globe's ardor against Trump caused it to create literal "fake news." On April 9, 2016, it published an entirely fake front page dated April 9, 2017, that imagines the nightmare of a President Trump. A fake story was headlined "U.S. Soldiers Refuse Orders to Kill ISIS Families." The orders never came. In another fake story, Trump offended the Chinese first lady by naming his new dog after her. Trump didn't get a new dog. Another predicted, "Markets Sink as Trade War Looms" and had a chart showing the Dow Jones at 9,912. On the actual date in 2017, it was over 20,000.
The Globe describes this anti-Trump jihad as "promoting the freedom of the press, in light of President Trump's frequent attacks on the media." It chooses to ignore that the media's documented network evening-news coverage of the Trump campaign in 2016 was over 90 percent negative. It chooses to ignore that this 90 percent negative coverage has been the norm every single month since then. His attacks on them may be frequent, but theirs on him are almost universal. There are many things the press ignores these days, including their rampant hypocrisy.
The Press coordinating is editorial Pages. That’s really going to inspire confidence and reverse their downward spiral. Awesome to know that the fiction of their independence is Stripped Away
Distrust of the media is also as American as apple pie.
I HAD been a paid subscriber to Los Angeles Daily News since early 70s when they were conservative and always better than LA Slimes. The day after their collusion piece was published, following the dictates of the Boston Globe powerhouse, I cancelled my subscription and told them why. There was no attempt to keep me and I think the low level employee I spoke to knows it was a huge mistake for them to go along with the collusion.
The war on conservative thought began with the election of Johnson over Goldwater in 1964. It now has reached epic proportions with 90% of newspapers printing fake news to undermine the conservative movement that started with the election of Reagan(the last true conservative) for 2 terms.
President Trump is not a true conservative but is a populist who is pulling America back from the head first dive into the misery of Socialism and then Communism. Krushchev was right when he said America will not be destroyed from outside but from inside. I’m glad I am 79 years old because I don’t want to be around for the misery that is coming if we can’t stop this rush to the left.
I gave up the Globe 6 years ago——after being a reader for c.65 years————trash.
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John Henry’s young little wifie now runs the Globe.
It has REALLY sunk since she took over.
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I’ve not read one of the articles. I do not read fake news. I read the critical analysis of the fake news and marvel at their lack of vision.
I got the Sports celebration copies for Troops deployed thousands of miles from home, engaged, in Iraq.
This is me, a kid who delivered the Globe and sold it on street corners in the late 1960s. Except for my own 3 years overseas, I read every copy of the Globe from around 1968 until 1991. I absorbed that Paper, day after day.
I finally woke up in 1984, but continued reading that rag for years, until finally, it was simply too much.
The only reason that they still have a pulse is because that POS owner of the Red Sox John Henry needs a propaganda outlet. I don’t watch MLB either since 1994. Millionaire ball players on strike, how absurd.
Let’s see how the Supreme Court appointments work out before determining just who has the real ‘conservative’ legacy.
Of course, you and I might not witness it, but I like to reflect on it from time to time.
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