{"id":88298,"date":"2016-02-22T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88298"},"modified":"2023-09-06T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:01:12","slug":"wp-donald-trumps-virulent-rhetoric-about-the-media-is-getting-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88298","title":{"rendered":"WP: Donald Trump\u2019s virulent rhetoric about the media is getting dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do the media think there are no consequences to what they do? That they can get away with anything forever? That they will never have to pay the price for their willful distortion? Does the media think they can keep trashing white Christian America and there will never be any blowback? Does the media think that they are immune from consequences? <\/p>\n<p>If the media is not willing to pay the price for their choices, maybe they should just quit?<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Candy_Crowley\">Candy Crowley<\/a> may have swayed the 2012 election by interjecting herself in the second debate as a fact-checker on Obama&#8217;s side. Should their be no consequences for this vicious partisanship?<\/p>\n<p>How many cops have been murdered because the MSM have hyped the false threat that police are targeting innocent blacks?<\/p>\n<p>Black power advocates are invariably portrayed respectfully in the media. Jews discovering their Jewish identity and latinos discovering their latino identity are also praised. But what happens to whites discovering their white identity and developing white power? They get trashed in the MSM. Black, Chinese, latino identity is praised, white identity is trashed. According to the MSM, whites have no group interests. <\/p>\n<p>The media destroy lives all the time. Do they think they are immune to blowback?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/02\/22\/donald-trumps-virulent-rhetoric-about-the-media-is-getting-dangerous\/\">CALLUM BORCHERS WRITES FOR THE WASHINGTON POST<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA tweet sent by NBC News reporter Katy Tur during a Donald Trump rally in Atlanta on Sunday is making the rounds on the Internet \u2014 held up as the perfect encapsulation of a very imperfect dynamic between the Republican presidential front-runner and his supporters when it comes to the press.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump trashes press. Crowd jeers. Guy by press &#8216;pen&#8217; looks at us &amp; screams &#8220;you&#8217;re a bitch!&#8221; Other gentleman gives cameras the double bird.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatyTurNBC\/status\/701530070381416448\">February 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Megyn Kelly \u2014 Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/01\/27\/the-long-strange-history-of-the-donald-trump-megyn-kelly-feud\/\">favorite media target<\/a> \u2014 sounded fed up with such behavior in a response, as did Tur\u2019s NBC colleague, Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Enough. Seriously. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PT13rqR0pp\">https:\/\/t.co\/PT13rqR0pp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/701537582631542784\">February 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The campaign rhetoric needs to be ratcheted back. This is outrageous and dangerous behavior <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qi4eAQxkgb\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qi4eAQxkgb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chucktodd\/status\/701534271987699712\">February 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But it is Tur\u2019s overlooked follow-up tweet that really captures the state of affairs in just three words.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just another Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatyTurNBC\/status\/701530148227706880\">February 21, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s the thing, right? This is the new normal. What once seemed shocking is now routine. Tur (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/12\/07\/thin-skinned-donald-trump-calls-female-reporter-little-katy-third-rate.html\">little Katy<\/a>,\u201d in Trump\u2019s belittling parlance) sounded jaded as she delivered a dispassionate play-by-play account of the latest rhetorical assault on the news media, as if she couldn&#8217;t muster any more outrage.<\/p>\n<p>And really what&#8217;s left after Trump has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/11\/25\/trump-blasted-by-new-york-times-after-mocking-reporter-with-disability\/\">mocked a reporter&#8217;s physical disability<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/12\/23\/donald-trump-is-pushing-journalists-to-their-professional-and-personal-limits\/\">joked about killing journalists<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Numbness might be the real danger here. Sure, there are other reasons to be concerned about the way Trump and his crowds interact with reporters. He has created an environment in which it is difficult and uncomfortable to do critical journalism, which \u2014 love it or hate it \u2014 is an important piece of our democracy. Even Trump&#8217;s most passionate followers should want to know whether he&#8217;s really the conservative crusader for American greatness that they hope he is.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always the possibility that someone in the crowd will take things too far \u2014 like, physically \u2014 and people will get hurt. It&#8217;s all too easy to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>But the long-term risk is that media producers and consumers become so desensitized to this kind of hostility that it permanently lowers the standard of civil discourse.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Trump is generally considered a unicorn \u2014 a candidate who gets away with things no one else could. But what if he isn&#8217;t? What if he&#8217;s a preview of a political future in which facts and respect don&#8217;t matter, a future in which voters have nothing but scorn for the journalists trying to help them make informed decisions?<\/p>\n<p>Many in the media have been asking: When is enough, enough? But what if the answer is &#8220;never?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the media think there are no consequences to what they do? That they can get away with anything forever? That they will never have to pay the price for their willful distortion? 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