The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!) by Kurt Schlichter

Author:Kurt Schlichter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2020-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Notice a problem with this, besides the author’s manifest bias? Start with the title: “Trump is Testing…,” Trump. This is all Trump’s doing. He’s forcing us in the media to abandon our objectivity by being so, so…Trumpy!

TRUMP MADE US DO IT!

But if the problem is that the media is presented with a politician it really, really dislikes, then doesn’t that make the whole pose of objectivity a sham from the beginning? After all, objectivity and neutrality don’t really matter when the subject falls within the scope of what is acceptable to the media. Objectivity only matters when the media is challenged by someone that its members really, really don’t like.

That’s what happened with Donald Trump. The media decided that objectivity was fine when there was no risk that someone outside what they deemed the mainstream would come to power, but once that became a possibility, the risks of objectivity were too great because those stupid readers of theirs might, without guidance, come to the wrong decision.

It’s the model of the media as shaper of opinion. Hard pass.

As the rest of Rutenberg’s article demonstrates, there is a lot more about Trump that he disapproves of. A lot more. And a fair reading of the column is that he is ultimately cool with ditching objectivity. Now, he and others do not say that. Instead, they try to abandon the responsibility to keep their own views out of their reporting while still keeping the moral high ground. Explaining why strict objectivity is inapplicable, he cloaks his support for agenda-based reporting in this verbal goo:

This, however, is what being taken seriously looks like. As Ms. Ryan put it to me, Mr. Trump’s candidacy is “extraordinary and precedent-shattering” and “to pretend otherwise is to be disingenuous with readers.”

It would also be an abdication of political journalism’s most solemn duty: to ferret out what the candidates will be like in the most powerful office in the world.

It may not always seem fair to Mr. Trump or his supporters. But journalism shouldn’t measure itself against any one campaign’s definition of fairness. It is journalism’s job to be true to the readers and viewers, and true to the facts, in a way that will stand up to history’s judgment. To do anything less would be untenable.

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