{"id":39129,"date":"2020-06-17T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39129"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:11:21","slug":"the-networks-have-totally-lost-their-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39129","title":{"rendered":"The Networks Have Totally Lost Their Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article today about an interview to be aired on ABC during prime time on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

On June 15, former National Security Adviser John Bolton sat down for an interview with ABC\u2019s Martha Raddatz to promote his new \u201ctell all\u201d book, expected to rip the bark off the Trump White House. ABC is airing it Sunday during prime time\u2026.just like they aired a prime time interview in 2018 with former FBI director James Comey to promote his anti-Trump \u201ctell all\u201d book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2007, Bolton wrote a book about his experience in government. No major network came calling for a prime time special. He wasn\u2019t useful to them back then.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now try to remember ABC offering a prime time special to an Obama insider who wrote a rip-roaring \u201ctell-all\u201d book. You\u2019ll have a tough time. Because most publishers are liberals, and aren\u2019t going to roll out the red carpet for that kind of book\u2026.even if the author is a liberal. So there was no insider \u201ctell-all\u201d for ABC to promote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes that there were never any prime time interviews for authors of tell-all books about the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

To be fair, there were former Obama officials who came out with memoirs that may have said something negative about Obama\u2026and they were attacked for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014, Robert Gates, Obama’s first Secretary of Defense, was selling a book. As he sat in NBC\u2019s studio wearing a neck brace, Today<\/em>\u00a0co-host Matt Lauer accused him of endangering the troops for having the audacity to criticize the sitting commander-in-chief: \u201c[A]t a time when some 40,000 U.S. troops are in harm’s way, do you think that by calling him into question at this stage it is either dangerous or dishonorable?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now look back and imagine being called \u201cdishonorable\u201d by Matt Lauer. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2013, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, fired by President Obama over critical comments from his staff in a Rolling Stone<\/em> article, issued his memoirs, and did a round of TV interviews. The first one, with CBS Pentagon correspondent David Martin, mostly skipped Obama, except for McChrystal to express pain over his apparent \u201cdisloyalty\u201d with Rolling Stone.<\/em> There wasn\u2019t any attack on Obama. The general did promote his book on a special edition of Hannity<\/em>\u00a0in prime time, and the Fox host talked through what happened with Obama, but there was no trashing of the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This same pattern emerged last September with Gen. James Mattis. CBS promoted his book in two interviews, but completely ignored his strong criticisms of Obama. He even called some of his choices \u201ccatastrophic.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, CBS This Morning<\/em>\u00a0co-host Anthony Mason asked about Trump: \u201cWhat do you think the President got wrong about Syria?\u201d Guest host Maria Elena Salinas pushed about his resignation: \u201cWas it your decision to leave, or were you fired, or were you pushed into resigning or pressured into resigning?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no need to pre-judge what John Bolton will say to ABC. But we can judge a long history of \u201ctell all\u201d imbalance, from the publishing houses to the TV studios. Republicans are mercilessly dissected. Democrats are carefully protected.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABC is not noted for presenting both sides of the story. How much of the Comey interview was proven to be lies after documents were declassified? Those who claim to want to bring the country together (and accuse President Trump of dividing it) would do well to begin by reporting both sides of every story and letting the American people discern the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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