| Title | Presidential Payback For Media Hubris | |
| Date | Saturday March 04 2017, @10:33AM | |
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| from the the-daily-red-meat dept. | ||
Victor Davis Hanson writes at The Hoover Institution:
The media suffer the lowest approval numbers in nearly a half-century. In a recent Emerson College poll, 49 percent of American voters termed the Trump administration "truthful"; yet only 39 percent believed the same about the news media.
Every president needs media audit. The role of journalists in a free society is to act as disinterested censors of government power—neither going on witch-hunts against political opponents nor deifying ideological fellow-travelers.
Sadly, the contemporary mainstream media—the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN), the traditional blue-chip newspapers (Washington Post, New York Times), and the public affiliates (NPR, PBS)—have lost credibility. They are no more reliable critics of President Trump's excesses than they were believable cheerleaders for Barack Obama's policies.
Source: http://www.hoover.org/research/presidential-payback-media-hubris
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