Interesting read
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reuters-memo ... 28278.htmlQuote:
a pair of internal memos circulated within news organizations this week illustrate the debate that’s happening in newsrooms around the country: how to cover a president who claims he views the media as “the opposition party.”
I found this next part ... obvious. It's funny that it had to be spelled out, and it's even funnier that they think they have a "side". and by "funny" I don't mean "ha ha ha!". I mean "funny" like the money you think is worth something but find out differently.
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–Don’t pick unnecessary fights or make the story about us. We may care about the inside baseball but the public generally doesn’t and might not be on our side even if it did.
–Don’t vent publicly about what might be understandable day-to-day frustration. In countless other countries, we keep our own counsel so we can do our reporting without being suspected of personal animus. We need to do that in the U.S., too.
–Don’t take too dark a view of the reporting environment: It’s an opportunity for us to practice the skills we’ve learned in much tougher places around the world and to lead by example — and therefore to provide the freshest, most useful, and most illuminating information and insight of any news organization anywhere.
The most interesting (from a current affairs perspective) part of the story to me was this
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On Monday night, Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker sent an email to editors asking them to stop referring to the seven countries included in Trump’s travel ban as being predominantly Muslim.
“Can we stop saying ‘seven majority Muslim countries’? It’s very loaded,” Baker wrote in the internal email, which was published Tuesday by Politico. "The reason they’ve been chosen is not because they’re majority Muslim but because they’re on the list of [countries] Obama identified as countries of concern. Would be less loaded to say ‘seven countries the US has designated as being states that pose significant or elevated risks of terrorism.'”
While many media outlets have accurately described the countries in Trump’s controversial executive order — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — as predominantly Muslim, the administration contends it is not a “Muslim ban.”
They're just now starting to get a clue...unless this is fake news too.
My opinion Trump as president is based on what I know from hearing him and reading between the lines of the garbage news organizations distribute. If bringing a balance to the reporting efforts of the major media conglomerates is the only thing he accomplishes it'll be worth it. I don't want to be told that he's committed atrocities, I don't want them to trot out a tame "expert" to present only the side of the story they want me to dwell on, I want to read what he did and form a conclusion myself.