Something momentous happened with the media — and things may never be the same for Donald Trump
I really have not watched the TV enough to say one way or another at this point.
Something momentous happened with the media — and things may never be the same for Donald Trump
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/something-momentous-happened-with-the-media-and-things-wont-be-the-same-for-donald-trump/
Neal Gabler, Moyers & Company
21 Sep 2016 at 13:40 ET
If you sniff around media blogs, which is part of my job, you know that something momentous may have happened last Saturday: The mainstream media finally came out of hiding and called Donald Trump what he is — a liar. And not just any old mainstream media, but the gray lady herself: The New York Times.
The headline of national political reporter Jonathan Martin’s front-page “news analysis,” as it was labeled, was “Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, But Floats a New One: Clinton Started It,” although in another edition it was headed more pointedly, “Trump Gives Up a Lie But Refuses to Repent.” A lie! What is noteworthy is not that, for perhaps the first time, the paper actually called a candidate’s statement “false,” with no equivocation, or that it labeled it a “five-year long smear” and then went on to say that Trump “falsely” accused Hillary Clinton of having started that smear. What is really noteworthy is that the paper used the word “lie.”
Indeed, even in Martin’s coverage before the Trump announcement, which called Trump out on his serial falsehoods, he wrote that Trump was expected to admit his birther campaign was a “lie.”
Times columnist Paul Krugman took notice in his blog on Saturday, remarking that after giving Trump pretty much a free pass, “the print media appear to have finally found their voice (which may shape cable coverage over time). The Times and the AP, in particular, have put out hard-hitting stories that present the essence in the lede, not in paragraph 25.”.....................
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