Nolte: New York Times Upset over Threats Against Media; Ignores 500-Plus Attacks on Trump Supporters
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/07/30/nyt-upset-threats-media-ignores-500-plus-attacks-trump-supporters/
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says he is worried about threats against journalists, even as his publication has all but ignored more than 500 attacks against President Trump and his supporters. ...
Nowhere in Sulzberger's statement did he offer any examples of these threats, which greatly harms his case.
If Sulzberger could offer an example of anti-media rhetoric resulting in someone being harmed, he would sound serious.
Instead, he sounds like the typical thin-skinned media elite using emotional blackmail and fake news to try to silence valid criticism of his failing and corrupt industry.
In fact, the establishment media overall could add some credibility to their complaints about rhetoric if they themselves were not running around firing off the kind of rhetoric that has ginned up an unprecedented wave of violence, threats, and property damage against Trump and his supporters.
For three years, the media have lied about Trump and his supporters, using every slur under the sun, everything.
In print and everywhere on television, we have been relentlessly smeared as racists, sexists, enablers of sexual assault, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, un-America ... Trump supporters have been called "Nazis" on Morning Joe, unpatriotic by CNN's Jake Tapper ... Trump has been falsely accused by the media of being a Russian spy, unbalanced, unfit for the office, a unique danger ...
The results of this dangerous and incendiary media rhetoric have been recorded in exacting detail by Breitbart News, a list of 538 incidents that include everything from attempted murder to harassment to threats to criminal vandalism to beatings ...
One way in which the media have allowed for this violence is to look the other way, to downplay, dismiss, ignore, and even justify it in their own rhetoric. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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