Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

2016 Postmortem

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:28 PM Jul 2016

Does the press have a responsibility to not treat Trump like a generic GOP candidate?

???

3 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Does the press have a responsibility to not treat Trump like a generic GOP candidate? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2016 OP

The rules don't apply to Trump any one of a hundred things doc03 Jul 2016 #1

The press has the responsibility to report without bias. Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #2

Press has a responsibility to report the facts. Facts about Trumps record and ties to Russia aren't emulatorloo Jul 2016 #3

doc03

(35,346 posts)

1. The rules don't apply to Trump any one of a hundred things

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:37 PM

Jul 2016

Trump has said would have killed anyone's political career.

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

2. The press has the responsibility to report without bias.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:54 PM

Jul 2016

That's really it. That's why Faux News has been a fail for 20 years.

emulatorloo

(44,131 posts)

3. Press has a responsibility to report the facts. Facts about Trumps record and ties to Russia aren't

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 24, 2016, 02:59 PM

Jul 2016

biased, yet modern press appears to want to pretend everything is 'he said/she said'

Yr dead on in your comment, that is indeed their obligation. They continue to fail us.

Reply to this discussion