{"id":34033,"date":"2018-08-12T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34033"},"modified":"2018-08-12T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T00:23:38","slug":"there-is-a-certain-amount-of-irony-in-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34033","title":{"rendered":"There Is A Certain Amount Of Irony In This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about a statement made by Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor of the Boston Globe<\/em> editorial page.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

We are not the enemy of the people,\u2019\u2019 said<\/a> Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor of the Boston Globe<\/em> editorial page.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…The Boston Globe<\/em>\u2018s effort calls on participating editorial boards to coordinate criticisms of Trump\u2019s critiques of news media outlets. Approximately 70 publications have committed to the effort so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pritchard described the president\u2019s criticisms of various news media outlets and figures as an undermining of the First Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now wait a minute. It seems to me that a coordinated effort by the media to coordinate criticism be the problem–not the solution.<\/p>\n

The article also quotes Jim Acosta:<\/p>\n

In April 2017, CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta similarly framed<\/a> Trump\u2019s criticisms of his employer as a subversion of the First Amendment:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As much as people wanna beat up on CNN and go after CNN and \u201cCNN sucks\u201d and that sort of thing, what [Breitbart News] does, I was with Steve Bannon the other day where he referred to us as the opposition party, once again. We\u2019re not the opposition party. We are just trying to get at the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Really. On July 29, Townhall<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

President Donald J. Trump unloaded today on the mainstream media for contributing to the dilapidated state of trust in America’s institutions and his administration, saying that 90% of the coverage was negative, which has put the lives of many at risk. <\/strong><\/p>\n

…The 90% figure is corroborated by two studies, one taken in 2017 and one taken in 2018, conducted by the Media Research Center<\/a> which “studied all broadcast evening news coverage of the President from January 1 through April 30, and found 90 percent of the evaluative comments about Trump were negative \u2014 precisely the same hostile tone we documented in 2017<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow I don’t think those numbers indicate that the media is simply trying to get to the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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