Declining standards on the media menu at White House Correspondents' dinnerWashington Examiner, Apr 28, 2018
Members of the press will treat themselves Saturday evening to drinks and selfies with vaguely familiar celebrities before sitting down for dinner and a comedy routine presented by "The Daily Show" alum Michelle Wolf.
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We editorialized on Thursday about the damage done by courts overreaching to check President Trump. We editorialized yesterday about federal employees doing the same, to become laws unto themselves, citing Trump as an excuse. In both cases, these institutions abandon standards in favor of resisting by any means necessary.
It’s worth saying the same today of news media.
News media aren't distrusted because of Trump. He attacks them because it works — because they were distrusted long before he went and ran for president. That so many have responded to his presidency by abandoning long-held journalistic principles, while walling themselves off in little self-affirming cloisters, is a danger not just to the industry, but the entire country.
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