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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGiven tRump's Oval Office immigration fiasco, major networks must change.
They need to stop cowering in fear over spurious accusations of left-wing bias, fake news, and enemy of the people. James Fallows Atlantic article offers effective guidelines for how to deal with the malignant orange creature going forward.
They were not afraid of criticism for turning down Obama. They are afraid about what would happen if they turned down Trump. You can think of lots of explanations. But the difference is clear.
An instructive parallel: During the 2016 campaign, James Comeys FBI was closemouthed about the ongoing investigations of Trump and his Russian connections. To have said anything about them would have opened the bureau to criticism of playing politics. But when it came to discussing Hillary Clintons email situation, obviously the calculus of potential criticism was different. . .. My point for now is what military planners call the asymmetric risk, which warped the FBIs behavior and that of much of the press.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/trump-networks/579697/
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)They couldn't wait to run his idiotic commercial for free
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)When the president calls in the White House pool in the hours before his Big Important Address to the Nation and says that it's going to be a big nothingburger, please don't feel obliged to broadcast said nothingburger. You can even cite the president's own remarks!
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)His Bullshit Meter rises by the day. Bring it on!