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Why The Media Needs To Break up With Trump<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Watch Mehdi Hasan’s panel discussion, with two experts, on how the press is \u2018both sides\u2019-ing us into a fascist future.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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Click link for video discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donald Trump has a seriously abusive relationship with the media. He bashes them as \u201cenemies of the people,\u201d tries to discredit them as \u201cfake news,\u201d and even calls for reporters and anchors to be jailed, yet much of the so-called \u2018liberal\u2019 US media seem to give him a pass on so much of the shocking stuff that he says or does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No lessons seem to have been learned from the 2016 debacle, and our media is now bent on trying to find some sort of ridiculous equivalence between the ordinary exaggerations and misstatements of the Democrats and the brazen gaslighting and fabulism of Trump and the GOP. By trying to look \u2018neutral\u2019 and \u2018unbiased,\u2019 the press has effectively assumed the role of Trump normalizers, at best, and Trump apologists, at worst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what\u2019s wrong with our \u2018liberal\u2019 media? And how do we fix it before it\u2019s too late? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To answer these questions and more, Mehdi was joined in the studio this week on \u2018Mehdi Unfiltered\u2019 by two of the US media\u2019s most eloquent critics. Journalist and author Wajahat Ali, who publishes the Left Hook<\/em> Substack newsletter, and veteran reporter and author James Fallows, who was chief speechwriter to President Jimmy Carter, and publishes the Breaking the News<\/em> Substack newsletter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why The Media Needs To Break up With Trump Watch Mehdi Hasan’s panel discussion, with two experts, on how the press is \u2018both sides\u2019-ing us into a fascist future. Click link for video discussion https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/why-the-media-needs-to-break-up-with?r=1sx7vz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Donald Trump has a seriously abusive relationship with the media. He bashes them as \u201cenemies of the people,\u201d tries to … Continue reading “‘both sides’ing…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27138"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27153,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27138\/revisions\/27153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}