Grilling National Security Adviser John Bolton on President Donald Trump’s recent tweets that the media is “dangerous & sick “ and “can cause a war,” Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace pressed for answers. Members of the media, both liberals and conservatives, object to Trump’s statements that the “media is the enemy of the people,” raising objections on both sides of the aisle. Yet Wallace hammered Bolton to retract Trump remarks, but, more specifically, that the press is “dangerous & sick” and “can cause a war.” Bolton refused to retract Trump’s statements about the press, echoing Trump’s views about media bias. “There is a press bias,” Wallace interrupted Bolton. “People get stories wrong, and people are called out for it. And we [the press] should be called out if we make a mistake,” said Wallace, completely missing the point that there’s no mistake with media bias.
Media bias takes place when a newsroom is infiltrated by political campaigns or organizations, ignoring relevant stories or highlighting others to advance a political party’s agenda. With Democrats looking to takeover the House and Senate this f all, the media doesn’t make a mistake when it fails to report on a “booming economy” or progress toward denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Contrary to Wallace’s contention, media bias isn’t a mistake but a deliberate calculating way of denying relevant news that supports one candidate over another. When the media fixates on Russian collusion to impeach Trump’s credibility, they ignore exculpatory evidence that validates Trump’s view that the Russian collusion story is a hoax or is fake news. Political bias isn’t about using disinformation and propaganda to sway voters to advance the position of the Democratic Party.
There’s no mistake when CNN has its daytime hosts report only on negative news for Trump. It’s a deliberate attempt to sway voters heading into the Midterm elections, hoping voters toss out Republicans and vote in Democrats. When Trump calls the media the “enemy of the people,” he’s referring to the press breaching its nonpartisan, politically neutral obligation under the First Amendment. When former CBS Nightly News host and managing director Dan Rather was fired in 2004 for allowing the newsroom infiltrated by Kerry for president campaign, the network took a stand against political bias. Today’s cable and TV networks do the bidding of the Democratic Party, with the exception of Fox News. By the Rather standard, all the hosts at CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS should be fired but that hasn’t happened. Today, political bias has become a way of life.
Trump views the media as the “enemy of the people” precisely because it didn’t give the public the straight facts. Trump believes that the public is fed a daily dose garbage, promoting the Russian meddling and Trump collusion story. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Co-chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said today there’s plenty of evidence of Trump’s collusion and conspiracy but he can’t offer any facts, no evidence. with political hacks, propaganda and disinformation is commonplace. Most citizens expect the newsrooms of major TV and cable networks to stay true to the First Amendment, refraining from political bias. Democrats blame the deadly June 28 shootings at Maryland’s Capital Gazette on Trump’s anti-press rhetoric, when they know it came from a disgruntled employee. That type of political bias perverts responsible journalism, spreading pure propaganda.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ dust up with CNN’s Jim Acosta Aug. 3, demanding that she retract Trump’s “enemy of the people” remarks, shows the White House doesn’t accept today’s extreme media bias. When Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Shorenstein Center found May 17, 2017 over 90% of media bias against Trump, it confirmed the obvious. Trump’s attacks against media dishonesty stem from the extreme prejudice against his presidency. If the press reported fairly, Trump would not have to resort to Twitter to said the record straight. Criticized for using the popular social media platform, Twitter is Trump’s only way to get out the facts, when the media engages in extreme prejudice against the president. Saying the media could start a war, Trump refers to the media’s hostile attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Calling the press the “enemy of the people” or saying the media is “dangerous & sick” and “can cause a war,” Trump refers to the media’s constant attacks against Russia and Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea [DPRK]. Especially with Russia, the media wants no part of diplomacy or improved U.S.-Russian relations. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once advocated no-fly zones in Syria, threatening to shoot down Russian fighter jets. Backed by the media, Hillary’s plan would have put potentially created WW III, with the U.S. and Russian headed for a military confrontation. Finding nothing but criticism for Trump’s attempts at diplomacy with North Korea and Russia doesn’t help peace. When journalists advance the Democrat agenda, they’re the enemy of the people for not practicing politically neutral journalism. Today’s media can’t tell propaganda from news.
