People Need to Tell Media Operatives that They’re Liars to Their Faces

[Re: “Why We Hate the Press.”]

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Sunday, March 21, 2021 at 7:45:00 P.M. EDT

In addition to ignoring black crime and exaggerating White crime, a stylistic change that I noticed the last two years that totally turned me away from taking the media seriously was the network commies inserting themselves into the story by deciding if President Trump was telling the truth about any subject.

“President Trump is once again lying about election fraud.” “Without evidence, President Trump accused the state of Georgia of manipulating ballots for Joe Biden...”

The correct way to report it would have been: “President Trump is raising questions about the accuracy of the vote counting in Georgia. He asserts that...”

[N.S.: That’s’ how they report on their allies, no matter how ridiculous the latter’s charges are.]

Just the fact that reporters refused to stay impartial was bad enough, but to call the President a liar (without evidence) was a breach of reporting etiquette. Get a political opponent to call Trump a liar—by interviewing him—but the reporter should stay neutral, that is, unless they’re now advocates—which would then probably exclude them from many of the free press rights they enjoy now.

-GRA

I recall seeing Lynn Sweet, the Washington Bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times on a Sunday morning political show during the 2016 campaign calling on reporters to tell Donald Trump, who I believe had not yet won the Republican nomination, to his face that he was a liar.

This woman had been an alleged journalist for 30 years, and had never shown such disrespect to Bill Clinton, who during his tenure was considered the biggest liar in presidential history, or to the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama,” who in some ways was even worse than Clinton (“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor…” illegal aliens would not be eligible for Obamacare, etc.)