NY Times' Rutenberg Tries to Enlist Republicans to Defend Media, Oppose Trump
By Clay Waters | February 26, 2017 | 11:26 AM EST
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Sunday’s New York Times featured the latest installment in easily-freaked media reporter Jim Rutenberg’s crusade against President Trump: “Trump’s Undermining Reporters May Haunt Republicans.” The online headline foreshadowed Rutenberg’s unlikely attempt to enlist Republicans in defense of the press and against Trump: “Will the Real Democracy Lovers Please Stand Up?” while the text box delivered an empty threat: “This strategy could push Republicans into a corner later.”
Rutenberg made no acknowledgement of the increasingly unconcealed anti-Trump partisanship displayed by the media, including his own newspaper. Rutenberg’s own infamous front-page column from August 2016 argued that the rules of journalistic objectivity didn’t apply in the case of fighting then-candidate Trump.
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During another week of presidential declarations that some journalists were “enemies of the people;” of new steps to restrict White House press access by way of a naughty-and-nice list, and of reported moves to force national intelligence agencies to toe the administration line, a now-familiar pattern set in.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2017/02/26/ny-times-rutenberg-tries-enlist-republicans-defend-media-oppose
