NY Times writer who urged journalists to abandon objectivity to defeat Trump now says media needs ‘n

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NY Times writer who urged journalists to abandon objectivity to defeat Trump now says media needs ‘n
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By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives January 12, 2017

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Let me introduce you to Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times, because he is not just a liberal Timesman. Those are a dime a dozen. Rutenberg is different because of this. He wrote it over the summer, and in it, he unapologetically urged the news media writ large to abandon all pretense of objectivity in covering Donald Trump, for the express purpose of defeating him:

    If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?

    Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career. If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional. That’s uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, nonopinion journalist I’ve ever known, and by normal standards, untenable.

    But the question that everyone is grappling with is: Do normal standards apply? And if they don’t, what should take their place?

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[uglybiker]

...now says media needs ‘n

You didn't tell me the reporter needs 'n.....!

[goatprairie]

Sort of a joke. Since when has the Big Lib Media ever practiced objectivity? Being a liberal "journalist" means being subjective.....and vindictive.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Well it was always my least favorite letter.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

So they are admitting Truth is not on their side, and they just don't care.

[the_doc]

It goes without saying that the Trump Phenomenon is a backlash against the MSM's decades of non-objectivity, which non-objectivity went bonkers under Obama.  And since the libs are dishonest fools who, because they are dishonest fools, will never admit that they are dishonest, much less that they are fools, the conflict is bound to get worse--much, much worse.  We are facing the worst troubles in our history.

I am afraid that it is too late to "Make America Great Again" if we don't prosecute the Global Socialists who are manipulating all of their groupies in a bona fide conspiracy to tear us apart in a civil/global war.  And we can't just continue indefinitely in back-and-forth name-calling and scoffing;  that will just make the Radicals more self-righteous in their evil delusions of Ameritopia and thereby move us closer to the bloodshed that the Radicals are already trying to promote on our soil.