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Dear Press Corps: We Don't Believe You

LowDown

LowDown

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Dear Kyle Pope, editor of the Columbia Journalism Review:

I see where you wrote an open letter to President Trump "to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps."

Your letter was 935 words. You are a fine writer. You made several good points.

After reading newspapers since I was six, I can clarify how readers now see the relationship between us and the American press corps. I do so in four words.

We don't believe you.

As a person with four decades in newspapering, now retired, I do not blame your readers in the least.

This election cycle has shown that the news business is dominated by social justice warriors who push a narrative rather than tell stories in a fair and balanced manner.

...You lost on November 8.

The American people rejected you.

We don't believe you.

Instead of demanding President Trump curtsy to you, how about earning some respect?

...Trump owes you nothing.

I owe you nothing.

The American people owe you nothing because -- and pay attention this time -- we don't believe you.
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Journalists made no secret about the fact that they were abandoning objectivity and good journalistic practice in order to bash a candidate they didn't like. They destroyed in one election whatever credibility they might have had.

I'll tell you how absurd it is: when Trump told the people that CNN is "fake news" and a "terrible organization" and that their polls are rigged the people believed Trump. It's just so obvious that they want to destroy Trump.

Don Surber: Dear press corps: We don't believe you.
 
LowDown said:
Journalists made no secret about the fact that they were abandoning objectivity and good journalistic practice in order to bash a candidate they didn't like. They destroyed in one election whatever credibility they might have had.

I'll tell you how absurd it is: when Trump told the people that CNN is "fake news" and a "terrible organization" and that their polls are rigged the people believed Trump. It's just so obvious that they want to destroy Trump.

Don Surber: Dear press corps: We don't believe you.
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I'm disgusted by the biased/fakenews MSM. I'm delighted that they chose an election cycle to make obvious their obvious bias to the general public. It took an issue of this magnitude to get the attention of the public. Now they don't trust the MSM and they shouldn't. This will all become some new normal and I hope the MSM doesn't make money until the clear truth becomes the beacon of our MSM. I'm not hopeful. Too much Corporate money. Too much Intelligence Agencies infiltration. Perhaps it has produced a new reality with more skepticism by the public. I just want the public to know the truth, even ugly truth, to get them out of their MSM induced comas.
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LowDown said:
Journalists made no secret about the fact that they were abandoning objectivity and good journalistic practice in order to bash a candidate they didn't like. They destroyed in one election whatever credibility they might have had.

I'll tell you how absurd it is: when Trump told the people that CNN is "fake news" and a "terrible organization" and that their polls are rigged the people believed Trump. It's just so obvious that they want to destroy Trump.

Don Surber: Dear press corps: We don't believe you.
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The last 8 years featured the closest thing to a soviet style pandering-to-government national press that America has ever had

Most Dear Leaders have to shoot a few journalists at first to make the others fall in line

but obama was blessed with a herd of liberal journalist that was already saddle broken
 
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