The New York Times is taking a bit of heat (example, here ) about its article this morning, in which it spends several introductory paragraphs bemoaning how mean Donald Trump is to the media, while only hinting at, rather than explicitly saying, that he lied about his donations to Veteran’s groups. To my mind, the broader problem is embedded in the first paragraph of the story:
He called a news conference ostensibly to answer questions about his fund-raising for charities that benefit military veterans. But Donald J. Trump instead spent most of his time on live television Tuesday berating the journalists covering his presidential campaign in unusually vitriolic and personal terms.
via New York Times
He called a news conference, and they dutifully came, and put it on live television, as they always do when it’s Donald Trump. They’re at his beck and call. And lest you think they’re being even-handed:
MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN are so in the bag for Donald Trump that they ignored Hillary Clinton’s campaign speech in Las Vegas in favor of showing an empty podium before a Trump speech.
While Hillary Clinton was speaking to the United Food and Commerical Workers in Las Vegas about raising wages for working families and offering a rejection of Trump’s immigration policies[, the cable networks were showing an empty Trump podium]
via Politicus, USA
True, the whiners at the Times are of the print media, which by its nature can’t be as much in the tank as cable media, but they are fellow travelers, as the Times article shows. The story, as any reasonable person can see, is that Donald Trump is a liar. The story according to the Times is that if Donald Trump is elected president he intends to continue to beat up on them. Why should it matter? The press has already developed the full blown equivalent of battered spouse syndrome so far as Trump is concerned. Trump knows that the more he beats on them, the more free press they’ll give him. The Times article proves that, as it artfully dances around the central fact that Trump is a liar.
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